Sherri Leopard

Sherri is a seasoned strategic partner to CEOs and senior leaders, with more than thirty years of experience across B2B marketing, technology, and telecommunications. As founder and CEO of a boutique consultancy, she built a blue-chip client roster including IBM, SAP, Siemens, Motorola, Level 3, and Intrado, before selling the firm to WPP in 2006, where it became part of Ogilvy & Mather. After completing her earn-out in 2014, she joined SYPartners, where she worked closely with leadership teams on major transformation efforts, including the turnaround of IBM Japan, the reinvention of the American high school through the XQ Super School Challenge, and advancing inclusion and diversity initiatives with BlackRock.
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Beyond client work, Sherri has held influential advisory and board roles, including co-chairing innovation and diversity committees at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, where she helped expand the curriculum’s focus on big data and analytics. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Spectra Logic Corporation and, in 2017, became the first woman inducted into the Association of National Advertisers’ B2B Marketing Hall of Fame.