Leanne Creasey

Leanne is the Head of Leadership Development for Sainsbury’s retail and logistics, looking after the learning and development of c. 7,000 leaders nationwide. She is an energetic leader, passionate about unlocking business performance through people and skills. She spent the first part of her career scaling some of London’s fastest growing prop-tech startups. After discovering her passion for developing people, she retrained as a coach and psychologist and joined young startup Multiverse as a Management Coach, where she developed their award-winning leadership apprenticeship and delivered it to big name clients such as Google, Net-a-Porter and Global Media & Entertainment. She was quickly promoted as the company grew to unicorn status. In 2021, she found a home at Sainsbury’s as Leadership Development Manager, responsible for shaping the group-wide organisational capability strategy. After delivering several highly successful development campaigns, she was promoted to Head of Leadership Development, overseeing the retail and logistics businesses. Coming from a working-class background and having been the first in her family to go to university, she cares deeply about social mobility. She has coached working-class black and brown women via the charity You Make It and tutored under-resourced young people via The Access Project.