Rev. Leslie Kagan (www.kaganassoc.com), Chair of the Board of Directors of the Chaplaincy Institute, is an interfaith minister and co-founder of Kagan Associates, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations and individuals transform themselves through a process of discovery, vision, focus, and conscious action. She is widely recognized as a creative business strategist and facilitator of organizational growth, leadership team development, and strategic planning, helping clients in a breadth of industries act collaboratively to create their futures.
Leslie has maintained a healthy perspective in her organizational consulting practice through her interfaith chaplaincy, completing 2 units of CPE at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, training as a pediatric hospice volunteer with HealthCare Dimensions Hospice, an affiliate of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and participating in Caring Canines, a program to take registered therapy dogs to visit nursing homes, hospitals, schools and assisted living facilities with their handlers as a community service. An alumna of The Chaplaincy Institute, she holds a B.A. from Simmons College, an M.Ed. from Boston University, and an M.B.A. from Northeastern University, graduating first in her class.