The 2023 Women Leaders in Consulting: Leann Landry

Leann Landry takes a value-driven and human-centric approach to delivering complex Salesforce solutions that transform business processes across sales, contact centers, marketing and partner/customer collaboration. She leads multidisciplinary engagements advising on Salesforce solution architecture best practices, customer experience strategy, process optimization, agile methodology, program management and organizational change management.

As an originating member of the West Monroe Dallas office, leader on the Dallas Senior Leadership Team, and Dallas campus recruiting lead, Leann plays an integral role in the rapid growth of our Dallas office and cultivation of our office culture that has received several best-place-to-work awards. She co-created a Salesforce accelerator asset collaborating with our Energy & Utilities practice to streamline distributed energy resource management which was awarded internal "shark tank" funding for its innovation and marketability.

Leann joined West Monroe in 2015 through its acquisition of Etherios, a Salesforce CRM consulting firm and platinum Salesforce partner. She has been in the technology industry for more than 20 years working for KPMG, Aon and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. She has a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University.

What do you consider your greatest personal or professional achievement?

My greatest achievement to date is becoming a Partner at West Monroe. At the time, there weren't many female partners in the firm, so I made it my mission to put myself in positions where I could positively influence the women in my office and practice. I humbly serve in the role of woman leader, mentor and role model. I take this role seriously from a career perspective, but also from a women leader development perspective. Today, to hear that women at West Monroe can see that being a Partner is possible for them as well has made this role even more fulfilling.

What's the best advice—consulting or otherwise—you've ever received?

At one of my first jobs, I had a leader tell me that "if you don't really like what you are doing, one day you will wake up and be promoted having no idea how you got there. Time will flash before your eyes, making you question if you enjoyed getting to that point." When he said this to me, it made me put my career in perspective and take action to go after roles that I was passionate about, not roles that would just advance my career or get a higher salary. I took that advice to heart and have always done work that stuck close to my values and made transformational impacts.

What advice would you give to a female consultant just beginning her career?

Find ways to build your confidence and presence. You can do this by asking thoughtful questions, gathering feedback on your performance and making iterative improvements, building your network, engaging regularly with a mentor, showing up in person, and lastly taking initiative. Each one of us owns our career – someone else won't do it for you.

What does this recognition mean to you?

Being recognized for the culmination of my work over the years is a true honor. However, the recognition holds more weight than just my day-to-day work. It's my position of being in spaces to elevate other women leaders. I want to continue seeing women disrupt the consulting and technology industries, and winning this award would be a true testament to the blood, sweat, and tears I have put into my career and supporting other women leaders. This recognition is not only be for me but for all the women at West Monroe and our dedication to creating a workforce that men once dominated into one that has a bit more color.