Fifteen years of leading teams, building communities, producing events, and turning vision into something people can actually hold. I speak about leading with clarity, conviction, and humanity — while creating something real people can feel, trust, and connect to.
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For most of my life I was told I was too loud, that I talked too much. So I went quiet. Then I figured out my voice was my greatest strength — and built a living around it.
Leigh Roberson has spent fifteen years building things that bring people together — staffing agencies, training programs, immersive experiences, and communities that grew into the thousands. She is the CEO and Co-Owner of Livingrooms & Lizards, a multi-media production company with a mission to reimagine tabletop roleplay experiences. Leigh previously founded Family First Household Staffing Agency in 2017, catapulting from grass-roots beginnings into a nationally trusted name, serving high-profile clients including the Carolina Panthers and the Major League Soccer team — Charlotte FC.
Leigh speaks, writes, and produces from the intersection of strategy and play. Whether she's bringing a Table Top Game to mass market, scaling corporations with innovative SOP's, or keynoting at a national conference, her work rests on one belief: bold dreams become a reality when people are safe to be themselves. Leigh recently relocated from Charlotte, NC to the North Coast of Oregon near Portland.
Built from lived experience, sharpened in real rooms, and adaptable for keynote, workshop, breakout, or fireside. If your event needs something custom, that's where I come alive.
Most of us were taught that leadership is serious. And it is — but that doesn't mean we have to be. The best leaders don't lose sleep trying to control every outcome; they trust their teams, take things as they come, and spend their energy paving the next path forward instead of white-knuckling the last one. Built on improv's two most underrated skills — "What if?" and "Yes, and" — this keynote walks leaders through a discovery process that opens new opportunities, trains the brain to default to possibility, and helps you lead in your own voice. Audiences leave with their own definition of bold leadership, a sharper sense of the strengths only they bring, and small, sustainable practices they can use Monday morning.
Many professionals struggle to clearly communicate the unique value they bring — which can make it harder to pursue aligned opportunities, advocate for their worth, and step into roles that truly fit their strengths.
This is the workshop I built and have delivered to hundreds of professional caregivers, now expanded for entrepreneurs, sales teams, and anyone ready to better understand and express the impact they make. Together, we explore your Mission, Values, and Vision, uncover the through-line of what you genuinely offer, and help you confidently articulate your value in a way that feels authentic and clear.
You leave with a stronger sense of direction, a deeper understanding of where your strengths thrive, and the ability to attract opportunities, partnerships, and work that align with who you are and what you do best.
I spent years building businesses that ran me. Then I stopped — quit playing small, did the work to stop people-pleasing, and started designing every venture around the life I actually wanted. The result: I run multiple companies, sit at the table with high-net-worth and high-performing clients as an equal, and sleep at night. This talk is for founders who've been told to hustle harder and suspect there's another way. Practical, honest, no toxic positivity, no permission slips required.
My grandfather — an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year recipient — taught me how to look at a vision and find the path from idea to reality. Most teams don't fail because they lack talent; they get stuck because they can't see the through-line — the people, resources, and small decisions that move something from concept to market.
In this talk, I share how I've used that mindset across very different ventures: building a national staffing agency from the ground up, developing a tabletop game and getting it into the mass market, and growing a multi-media company centered around storytelling and connection.
Most leaders, organizers, and employers genuinely want to be inclusive — they just don't know what people with chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, food and environmental allergies, and other invisible disabilities actually need. I've spent years navigating these conditions myself, founding AllergyAde to get allergy-friendly food to people in crisis, and designing accessibility into the companies and events I run — including bringing on dedicated accessibility leadership at Livingrooms & Lizards. This talk is the practical, no-shame playbook: what to ask, what to change, what tiny shifts make the biggest difference, and how to design rooms — physical, digital, and cultural — where people with invisible and visible conditions can show up fully without having to explain themselves or apologize.
As someone who's built across multiple industries and passions, I understand that every audience comes with different needs, challenges, and goals. I work collaboratively to create talks that feel relevant, thoughtful, and tailored to the energy and purpose of your room.
If you run a podcast and want to invite me on — these are the conversations I'd love to have. Pick an angle that fits your audience, or pitch your own; I'm happy to tailor.
Before my 2023 divorce, I'd shoved myself in a box marked "sweet, agreeable, accommodating" — and that's a real part of me, but it isn't all of me. This isn't a reinvention story. It's about what happens when you stop trying to become a new person and start making room for the multi-faceted one you've been the whole time.
Some of the best business advice I ever got came from my grandfather — at family dinner tables, on long car rides, in offhand comments I didn't recognize as wisdom until years later. A conversation about lineage, mentorship, and what I inherited from an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year that still shapes how I see opportunity, risk, and what it means to build something honest.
I run multiple companies with the two people closest to me — my life partner, who's also my COO, and my creative co-owner, who's also my best friend. Real talk about the rewards, the trade-offs, and the things no one warns you about when you build with people you love.
Adventure Pouch, from napkin sketch to shipped product. Crowdfunding, manufacturing, and the surprises in between.
What's changing, what isn't, and how to take up space without performing for it.
Including the year I traveled the entire country while running multiple businesses.
Designing teams, events, and companies for the people you can't see — drawn from founding AllergyAde and years of lived experience.
Pitching a custom angle? Even better. Reach out with the show, the audience, and the conversation you want to have.
Invite Corey Leigh on your podcast →Speaker at the Association of Premier Nanny Agencies annual conference. Conference theme: Leadership in Full Color.
Keynote address to the country's premier gathering of professional caregivers and agency leaders.
Founded, produced, and headlined this conference for parents and household staff. Originally planned as an in-person event, successfully pivoted to a fully virtual format mid-pandemic without losing the audience.
Four-time co-host and recurring featured speaker for the industry's flagship training day — hundreds of attendees per event.
Multiple in-person and recorded sessions for Sue Downey's national conference.
Featured speaker — workshops on professional self-advocacy, leadership, and sustainability.
Workshop on showcasing your unique value as a professional caregiver.
Pitching workshops, leading children's D&D one-shots, and presenting alongside the Livingrooms & Lizards team.
Honest conversations about healing, connection, and the many ways we come back to ourselves.
After facing my own challenges within the healthcare system, I started Healing the System as a way to explore — and share — new paths to healing, connection, and living well.
Each episode is an honest conversation about chronic illness, mental health, mindfulness, self-love, breaking generational cycles, and the many ways people learn to come back to themselves. While I do speak with practitioners and experts, the heart of the show is really about people — their stories, perspectives, resilience, humor, and the conversations that remind us we're not alone.
It's a space for deep, meaningful, and sometimes playful conversations about life, healing, community, growth, and what it means to be human.
Connected to AllergyAde — the platform I founded to get allergy-friendly food to people in crisis. Healing the System is where the stories live; AllergyAde is where the help arrives.
Where I've shown up on the record. More on the way as the rooms keep opening.
Some speakers come to fill a time slot. Leigh is a facilitator that encourages participants to take up space and use their voices. Leigh is a change maker.— Anne Kearney, Career Nanny
Leigh is such a warm and engaging Speaker!! I have asked her to speak several times both in person at my national conference as well as recorded webinars for international events. She offers expert advice in a real and honest way. My attendees consistently rank her high.— Sue Downey, Founder, NannyPalooza & International Nanny Training Day
Engaging, inspirational, funny and informative. Leigh gave our group practical information they could apply immediately. I would highly recommend her.— Bayly Silverman, CEO & Founder, Your Happy Nest
It was my first time hearing her speak and I could have listened for hours. Authentic, extremely engaging, vulnerable, and so hilarious.— Jennifer Amburn, Career Nanny
Soft enough to listen.
Loud enough to lead.
Both, on purpose.
Soft enough to listen. Loud enough to lead. Both, on purpose.
Quick takes for whoever's introducing me at your event.
Conferences, leadership summits, team offsites, podcasts, panels. I respond to every inquiry within a few business days — and I'll tell you straight if I'm not the right fit.
Email a speaking inquiry →Or write directly: book@coreyleighspeaks.com
