Lesley Crook
Title: Digital Channels Strategist & Change Agent
Company: Wolan Ltd
Geography: Based in the UK, practising in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA
Bio: Lesley is a tenacious independent consultant, community influencer and adoption change advocate of digital transformation. Natural ability to increase team productivity and improve employee engagement using Enterprise Social Networking (ESN).
Former GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) IC Digital Manager. Helped launch, embed and grow a sustainable Yammer network as a GSK IT business partner. Now one of the largest networks in the world.
Lesley is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Office Services and Servers and a Yammer Adoption Specialist. Also, a Lean Sigma Green Belt.
Supports and takes an active part in International Working Out Loud week, a global movement to promote the value of sharing work in progress to foster learning and collaboration.
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) UK Chapter Committee Member
Enactus Business Advisor at University of Sussex.
Practice Areas: Internal Digital Channels Strategy, Employee Engagement & Advocacy, Change, Collaboration, Community, Working Out Loud, Lean Sigma, Social Media
Other Projects: Lesley is a Pets as Therapy charity volunteer with her dog on the Read2Dogs programme. The aim of the programme is therapeutic as an aid for teaching children about kindness and empathy, and also for providing reading support. Literacy is under scrutiny with figures suggesting one in six pupils struggle to read fluently by the age of 11. http://petsastherapy.org/what-we-do/read2dogs/
Twitter: @lesley_wolan
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-crook-5b92098/
Website: http://www.esnworkshops.com/
