Leah Kedar

Leah is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) and an International Coaching Federation Advanced Certified Mentor Coach (ACMC). A recipient of the 2009 and 2010 ICF Prism Award for Coaching Excellence with the National Institutes of Health and with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Leah delivered the TEDx talk, “The Listening Cup” for the 2022 Veterans Administration Health Services annual meeting based on her decades of learning what it is about listening that makes for meaningful, transformational change.

Over the past three decades her work has impacted organizational change efforts world-wide (U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa) in diverse environments including, Federal Government Agencies, the Intelligence community, Fortune 500 corporations, Global start-ups, and International NGO’s, including the United Nations Foundation.

Leah coaches to the whole person with care and compassion. Her approach to coaching is results oriented and integral, honoring the full humanity of each person. She supports clients to explore personal, professional, and organizational goals, as they develop and carry out strategies and plans to achieve those goals.

Leah holds an M.S. degree in Sociolinguistics from Georgetown University and a BS in Anthropology from the University of Maryland. She has numerous coaching certifications and assessment certifications including MBTI, DiSC, The Learning Circle 360, and EI-Q 360.

Leah lives in Takoma Park, Maryland and in her spare time she travels, near and far, to listen to good live music; grows beautiful flowers in her garden; reads and writes poetry.