Leah uses her experience as a serial co-founder with several major exits to coach startup founders. As a Lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, she also teaches technical teams how to work well together to build products and innovate within larger organizations.

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Leah Edwards is a regular speaker on innovation management and strategies, developing university or regional entrepreneurship programs, raising capital, women in technology and related topics. In addition to giving keynote addresses, she works with corporations or other organizations to develop workshops or custom presentations to encourage innovation or to address specific challenges in adopting new technologies or processes.

Leah is an executive coach working with a range of professionals—from corporate leaders, startup founders and nonprofit managers. She has trained in several coaching methods and teaches innovation leadership at both UC Berkeley and Stanford.

Many of Leah’s coaching clients are entrepreneurs, and she has helped launch many new ventures, including working with NameCoach, Yidio, Tile, GreenOptions and DiabetesCloseUp in their very early days.

Leah is a venture capital and angel investor. She particularly enjoys advising companies innovating at the intersection of technology and social benefit, such as Ketos, NameCoach and Valor Water Analytics (acquired by Xylem).  She helps founders find their ideas and get their organizations off the ground, and she helps entrepreneurs achieve profitable exits, such as advising on the sale of Building Solutions to SolarCity and GreenHomeGuide to the US Green Building Council. 

As the past Director of the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Leah has experience creating a wide variety of innovative courses, programs, cross-campus collaborations and business partnerships. 

Currently, Leah leads cross-disciplinary courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford and the University of North Carolina.  She also consults with faculty leaders at other universities, particularly on creating entrepreneurial ecosystems connected to the campuses.

Leah also advises education technology startups supporting diversity, inclusion and student success.