Leslie Greenwood

Chief Evangelist, Community Strategist, Co-Founder of Wednesday Women, Startup Advisor, Ex-Stay-At-Home Mom

I'm the Co-Founder of Wednesday Women and the Founder of Chief Evangelist Consulting: two ventures grounded in a core belief: community isn’t a tactic, it’s a force.

Wednesday Women began as a ripple in 2023 as a small, intentional effort to elevate executive women. We amplify women’s voices on LinkedIn, on stages, on podcasts, not as polished personas, but as their real, remarkable selves (the woman behind the title). Our public platform is for everyone, and we’ve built a private membership for executive women who want to go deeper with that mission and create connections both help unlock challenges but also are their biggest cheerleaders. 

Through Chief Evangelist Consulting, I help companies design community strategies that create lasting engagement. With 20+ years in customer-facing leadership roles, I approach community as a strategic lever, rooted in trust, value, and connection.

At the heart of everything I do is a belief in the power of evangelism, authenticity, and shared momentum.

And yes — I run on coffee, dark chocolate, trying (and failing) to keep me very vocal dog in check and talking loudly about diversity in tech.

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Advocating for Pavilion’s mission of helping every leader and their team achieve their professional potential through community-powered learning. I will be supporting key initiatives, developing and teaching curriculum for Pavilion University and providing over 10,000 members with leadership advice. Join us at joinpavilion.com.

I’ve been seeing a trend….
more women walking away from corporate life to go fractional, consult, or build their own thing.

And I get it.
I did too.

At some point, I realized I’m “consciously unemployable”. 

That’s a choice. 

Not because I can’t play the corporate game (well actually if you know me, I can’t 🤣), but because I finally saw how much of it was built on rules that were never written for us. And I was done building others’ dreams.  

As Sarah Allen-Short wrote,  

“Liberal feminism didn’t ruin the workplace. It exposed it.”
(If you read the NYT article, you’ll get the reference.)

What we’re watching isn’t women giving up. It’s women waking up.

“Lean In” taught women to play the old game. This era’s about building a new one.

When you realize the system was never designed for you, you start creating something better.

(📸: Quote from Sarah’s Substack Work Doula — worth the read.)

 #futureofwork #womeninbusiness #founderlife #fractionalleadership

Leslie Greenwood 

💜 Shining the Spotlight on Exec Women, Co-Founder of Wednesday Women, Community Strategist, Chief Evangelist, Startup Advisor, Ex-Stay-At-Home Mom

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Andrea 🤓 Lechner-Becker and Raja Walia arguing just made my morning!  

That’s all, that’s the post. 💜 

And yes, Erin Kasmarick is still the HubSpot wizard 🧙‍♀️! We 💜💜💜💜her.

AI can’t invent weird. It can’t really do different. This is still where humans have the competitive advantage 

Think about Apple’s “1984” ad.
Or, Coinbase’s random bouncing QR code.

No robot’s out here dreaming those up. 

Those ideas hit because they were so human. Unexpected. Odd.
The kind of weird that makes you stop scrolling and go, “Wait, what?”

That’s what AI can’t fake.

It can totally take your ideas and scale them. But if what you feed it is already kinda basic… it’s just going to spit out more basic.

What’s that mean for us humans? Creativity actually matters more now. Because AI’s like this giant volume knob. Whatever you give it, it just cranks it up.

Bottom line: The magic happens when a human is brave enough to think weird.

We unpack this (and a few more “AI vs. human creativity” hot takes) in the full episode.
Catch it here → https://lnkd.in/gCvusPW6

#MarTech #Marketing #GTM #RevOps #AI

★ Human-Centered Operations Leader, Instructional Design, Instructor, Author, Speaker, Education and Lifelong Learning Advocate. Dedicated to Advancing Women in Leadership ★

Short summary:
My work involves creating and delivering educational experiences to help people grow their careers and businesses using the lessons I learned from building an agency from the ground up as employee #1. I also create plans, processes, and programs such as a knowledge management program, an award-winning comprehensive employee onboarding program, and an award-winning referral partner program that generated 45% of company revenue. I am currently creating courses for Maven, Teachable, and HubSpot Academy. I am also writing a book on RevOps to combine a love of research, writing, and lifelong learning.


More context:
I spent several years learning executive leadership skills in my operations career at Remotish, a RevOps agency serving B2B SaaS companies using HubSpot, which also aligned with my purpose of advancing women in leadership (Remotish is women-owned-and-led).

I have very diverse career experience, which helps me see the big picture, quickly thinking many steps and scenarios ahead, while being detail-oriented. Creative problem-solving and clarity are my superpowers – I can generate surprising ideas with an unconventional perspective, and clearly explain the steps to make those ideas into reality. 

Career Journey: 
1. Graphic designer / art director, mostly magazines, with an art & journalism degree 
2. Photography piqued my interest while directing photoshoots, which led back to school 
3. Career 2 was a photographer and entrepreneur  
4. My favorite part of running the business was marketing, inspiring a career change
5. MBA in digital marketing to help my career move further and faster
6. Starting at Chief Martech Officer (Remotish) in a client-facing role that led to the fast track to management
7. Discovering part of what I was doing my whole career was Operations 
8. Creating educational content to help others learn these operations & career lessons faster than I did (internal training programs, on-demand and live cohort courses, templates, workbooks, and more)


Resources for finding your superpowers and purpose: 
1. howtofascinate.com (My advantages: prestige, innovation, and passion) 
2. 16personalities.com has an eerily accurate personality test (INTJ Architect) 
3. startwithwhy.com first helped me find “what” I enjoy: creating, improving, or discovering/exploring

Jen Bergren, MBA

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Featuring content from:
Fiona Simpson
Samantha McKenna
Christopher Morris
Remy W.
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Jane Serra
Inken Kuhlmann-Rhinow
Tina Lei
Mike Rizzo
Darrell Alfonso
Erica Lamberg
Jeff Ignacio
Colette Molteni
Jonathan Mendez
Richard Britton
Andrew Birmingham 🕵️‍♂️
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Sari Hegewald and Michael Hartmann
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At #MOpsApalooza, Marketing Ops Community leaders Mike Rizzo and Audrey Harze ✨ gave the opening remarks with a theme of MOps (marketing operations) Reloaded like the Matrix Reloaded movie.

We’re at a turning point.
AI is not an experiment, it’s an expectation.
But how SHOULD we use it responsibly?

Act 1: Welcome to the system
Slow down to see the system, code, & how to make it work.
AI without MOps is chaos.
AI with MOps can scale.
We're being asked to implement AI with no direction from execs.
Hype is everywhere, but adoption is messy.
More than seeing tools, we need to see the entire system.

Companies are reacting, not leading.
Without leadership, AI takes over like Agent Smith.
Without governance, the systems start to run the company instead of the company running the systems.
But AI isn’t the villain; the lack of leadership is.

Act 2: Seeing the System
Zooming out to influence strategy.
Zooming in to make it scale.

AI tools are coming down from the peak hype cycle of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment.
Zoom out by remembering the tech adoption chasm, the journey from hype to habit.
How do we get there?
Mapping it.
In every new tech wave there is a gap/chasm between innovators and others.
Marketing ops bridges that gap.
Turning potential into process.
Turning hype into habit where measurable value lives.

Act 3: The weight of connection
Every bridge has 2 connections, to balance, distribute the pressure, and hold the weight.
MOps is that bridge, connecting the vision of the business with the capabilities of technology.
We’re carrying and distributing the weight of people, systems, and processes that keeps the company flowing.
MOps makes what leadership imagines possible, so you can cross the chasm and reach the next stage or new lands.
You’re designing how it all works.

Success isn’t measured by pipeline anymore, its measured by progress.
We’re not support.
We’re architects of scale.
We’re not a revenue team.
We’re an infrastructure team that enables revenue at scale.
We’re not GTM engineers.
We’re GTM architects.
Every engineer needs an architect.

Act 4: You are the one(s)
We’ve seen this martech movie before, this is the sequel.
Companies buy first and plan later.
It’s what gave birth to MOps.
We’re at the same crossroads.
We can design what comes next.
Executives need people who understand systems end to end.
People who have seen martech explode over years.
You are the best person to prove the tech stack can achieve ROI.
Run the stack like a product.
MOps is the leadership companies need to write that next chapter.

Act 4.4: The human experience
AI can’t see around corners.
Only people can.
AI trains on public info.
It sees success stories.
It doesn’t see what didn’t work, the trial and error.
Only humans can apply it with integrity, nuance, and purpose.
AI doesn't change the game.
MOps does.
We don't adopt the future.
We design it.
By building the bridge that every business needs.

#MOPZA #MOPZA25

Jen Bergren, MBA, M.Ed.

Thank you to Patti M. Wilson (Myers) for this wonderful testimonial for my #documentation courses! ☺️ ❤️  It was a pleasure to chat with you in class!

Maven is running a sale this week on all my live classes - 25% off!

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