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While serving as the CIO, she and her team wrote a system that collected from other insurance companies. (They were trying to pay for the extras for the new Family Practice Clinic). Her medical center collected more money that year than all of the Navy and Air Force hospitals combined, and she ended up on a speaking tour and came to the attention of Equifax who was in the process of purchasing six healthcare related information systems companies.

She was recruited by Equifax to be the CIO of those companies, retired (they can retire before 40, folks!)

She absolutely didn’t understand the civilian sector, was used to people working together, and left Equifax after less than two years, going to Centra Benefits Services, their largest competitor, who was losing money at an alarming rate at the time.

Working with the COO and CFO, they turned Centra Benefits Services around; bought Equifax Health Care Administrative Services, and Leah left the resulting company (who would want to work with those people again!) and formed Project Managers, Incorporated.

After several years, she finished all PMI’s projects, was sitting by the pool drinking margaritas, and was tempted back to work by her friends at Clearview Management Consultants, LLC. LSG SkyChefs needed to terminate their IBM, GTE, and Sprint contracts, build a data center, hire all the people, and get it operational within ninety days. Their applications were outsourced to Andersen Consulting, LLC (Accenture), and they were getting ready for Y2K. It would only take ninety days. Who could resist?

She stayed almost three years and ended up working for PMI, for Clearview, for Accenture, as LSG SkyChefs, VP of Information Systems and stayed through the aftermath of the September 11th crisis.

She went back to Clearview, as their Chief Operating Officer, where “The Executive Toolbox” was launched on Good Friday, 2002 and, as spent week after week, as the host of the show, talking to people who were living their dream.

As Daniel Burrus told Leah, “Find Your Passion and Wrap A Career Around It”.

On September 13th, 2002 Leah left her friends at Clearview and is doing just that.

Leah Ward-Lee, serves as a moderator to her guests, highlighting both their personal and professional accomplishments and focuses on the aspect of their businesses pertaining to the topic they’re discussing. “The Executive Toolbox,” provides listeners with a professional view of Information Technology with a casual and relaxed mindset.