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Leslie Lampe Long,
M.A., M.Ed., LMHC "Leslie is to me like a personal
architect of the spirit: finding a new career path in my case," Avril B., Age 60+, New York City
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A UNIQUE BACKGROUND COMBINING BUSINESS, EDUCATION
AND PSYCHOLOGY
Leslie Lampe Long has more than
20 years of experience in marketing and sales in telecommunications, software, manufacturing and advertising. Her career shows
a progression that is a non-linear, unconventional series of transitions that nevertheless build one upon the other. She has achieved two masters degrees in psychology- educational and counseling.
Following her
initial 9-year career as a teacher, Leslie began her business career in sales as an account executive at MCI Telecommunications.
Her performance in sales earned her the #1 sales ranking nationally, and a promotion to sales manager of a team of
40 sales reps. Leslie was then recruited to run national account customer education, educating large corporate
customers (the largest contract: IBM) about the rapidly changing telecom market.
Leslie entered marketing as a public relations manager, organizing the first management
symposium after the acquisition of Western Uniton International, and went on to manage value-added reseller marketing for
MCI Mail, the world's first public electronic mail service, working with Vint Cerf, a father of the Internet. She went
on to become Director of Sales Development, responsible for national sales training.
With her experience in corporate
marketing, Leslie launched her own management consulting business. There she earned long term contracts with AT&T
Canada for channel marketing and Xerox Corporation as a sales productivity coach.
After years in management consulting, Leslie was recruited by an advertising agency
in New York City to join the B2B brand marketing team as Senior Vice President. After 9/11 in NYC, she
assumed the position of head of human resources for the ad agency, responsible for all hiring, on-boarding, and productivity
coaching. The experience of counseling employees through the experience of 9/11, recommitted Leslie to pursuing her career
as a counselor. After pursuing additional education and credentialing as a psychoanalyst,
Leslie launched her independent coaching practice in
2004 and her mental health counseling practice in 2008.
Today, Leslie runs a successful coaching, career development,
and psychotherapy practice where she uses her experience as an educator, marketer, manager and psychotherapist to help people
thrive through work and life transitions.
In
2008 Leslie won a National Gradiva Award for her paper, "Career Dysphoria and the Working Wounded."
In 2022, Leslie presented "Mutual Vulnerability
and Transformation" at the Intl Assn of Psychoanalytic Self Psychologists