Leslie Hayden
Senior Communications Strategist
Leslie is one of the leading senior communications strategists in Australia today. She is also a Senior PR and marketing consultant, corporate coach and trainer. Leslie excels in positioning products and people - and then successfully selling them to targeted audiences. Originally from Toronto, she worked in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ and Asia. She headed up some of North America’s top marketing and communications agencies in Canada and the US before relocating to Sydney nine years ago.
In addition to her training and in-depth experience as a journalist, Leslie holds a PhD in performance psychology, providing her with unique insight into consumer motivation to develop more influential and impactful communications campaigns that generate terrific results. Leslie has created communications campaigns for such companies as Time Warner, Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising, Mojo, Etcom, Graincorp, Centrelink, Jetabroad Online Travel, Dollar Rose Internet Marketing, Westpac and Qantas among others. She is a former tutor in Communications at the UTS University in Sydney.