Who We Are

LeAnne has co-founded and worked with a number of organizations that focus on the use of systems thinking and organizational learning tools and practices to create more effective multi-stakeholder collaborations as well as individual organizations, including Spaces for Change, Sustainable Food Lab, Academy for Systems Change, Reos Partners, Generon Consulting, and Pegasus Communcations. She has designed and managed numerous conferences, events, meetings, and learning journeys with systems thinking at their core. She has worked with a wide range of organizations from school districts to health care providers. She has an extensive history with Girl Scouts having served in several executive staff capacities and as a volunteer leader and trainer with the legacy Patriot’s Trail Girl Scout Council in Boston. She served on the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Eastern MA, their Board Development Committee, and their Scholarship Committee. Currently she is on the Board of Girl Scouts of Maine, and locally on the Steering and Executive Committees for Harpswell Aging at Home. She lives on the Maine coast with her husband and three cats.

As a Senior Manager in Accounting and Assurance, Mr. Jones partners with organizations and conducts financial audits across the country. Locally, he donates his time and talents serving as Treasurer for the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl — Arizona’s premier college football championship game. In addition to board service, his experience as a father of young children and advocate of high-quality early care and education led him to be selected by Child Care Aware of America to serve as Arizona’s Parent Advocate alongside his wife, Amber, from 2017-2019. In this role, he and his wife met annually with congressional leaders at the United States Capitol advocating for laws that support paid leave and child care. Above all his contributions to the community and outward, he is most proud of his role as father to two incredible children and husband to one amazing wife.

Don Kennedy has a distinguished career in business and education and currently serves as a consultant providing strategic advisory services to K-12 school districts. He is a former Superintendent of Schools for the Charleston County School District in Charleston, South Carolina. Don became acquainted with the Waters Center, then the Waters Foundation, during his time as Chief Financial Officer for Boston Public Schools. Throughout his professional career, Don has recognized the need for a systems approach to making meaningful change and works for equitable outcomes for students.

Ed Sohn is the Global Head of Capabilities at Factor Law, the leader in delivering complex legal work at scale. Under his leadership, the Capabilities framework oversees talent management, development, learning, employee experience and capacity for nearly all fee-earning professionals at Factor globally.

Ed is an attorney, legal technologist, product manager and managed services leader, having held a number of roles as an executive with Pangea3, Thomson Reuters and EY. He is a frequent writer and speaker in the area of legal innovation, including as one of the founding authors of the alt.legal column on AboveTheLaw. Ed was named in the Fastcase50 class of 2019 and was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management in 2021. Ed began his career with King & Spalding as a litigation associate after earning his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania (L’06).