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Divanation, founded by Leanne Meyer and Frank Lehner, is an international identity- and narrative-development business consultancy, which focuses on women’s leadership. Divanation consults with C-level leaders and key decision-makers to help them understand gender is a business issue not a women's issue. We, in turn, provide solutions that facilitate and integrate both individual and structural change that serve to attract, develop, retain, and reclaim women talent and women clients. We do this through professional/personal development, leadership development to staff, coaching to high potentials and executives, working with high-net-worth clients, organizational design consulting, and consigliere services. Divanation can be experienced by individuals, organizations, and not-for-profits via coaching processes, workshops, educational forums, consulting relationships, retreats and keynote presentations. Divanation works with good people and responsible organizations.
Leanne Meyer is a facilitator, educator and coach. She is partner in the leadership and individual identity-development company Divanation™ LLC. Leanne’s calling is to help people make sense of their lives through the reclamation of passion and purpose. As such, she is a sought-after speaker for keynote addresses, seminars, conferences, and workshops. Leanne’s journey began in South Africa. She was specifically influenced by the events in her home country, which ignited her interest in the possibility for human change and transformation. She has applied applied her change-agent skills in South Africa, England, Ireland, and, now, America. She has helped such companies as Daimler Chrysler, GlaxoSmithKline, UBS, and Commercial Union. She serves a lecturer at the School of Leadership and Advancement as well as an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Corporate and Executive Education at Duquesne University; a member of the Professional Leadership Advisory Board at Carlow University; and guest lecturer at Chatham college, and Robert Morris University. Leanne holds a master’s degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Johannesburg. She is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. with her husband and two sons, a “mad” beagle, Max, and a wheel-spinning hamster, Mr. Whiskers. Contact Leanne at +1 412.478.4060 or e-mail leanne .
Frank Lehner is an executive coach, facilitator, educator, and designer with a long-standing interest in organizational effectiveness and individual engagement in life and work. His passion has focused on practical applications of storytelling, narrative, and creativity in business, educational, and non-profit settings. Prior to founding Divanation, he developed workplace communities as a co-principal in a narrative- and identity-based organizational development consultancy. Frank’s creative and application-oriented work history includes, in part, seven years with the human resources pioneer Development Dimensions International. At the University of Pittsburgh he conceived and lead an entrepreneurial start-up—the nation’s first in-university on-demand publishing and curriculum development group. Frank served as an international publishing consultant for Xerox, where he spent time in Germany and England. In 2007, he and Leanne Meyer founded Divanation™ LLC—a project to apply narrative, storytelling, and identity development with a focus on women’s leadership and organizational change. In addition to his consultative work, Frank teaches master's and undergraduate classes in the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement at Duquesne University, where his courses explore the changing relationships between the individual, work organizations, and society. Frank’s teaching and facilitation style is energetic, engaging, animated, a bit unorthodox, and filled with wit and compassion. His undergraduate degree is in English and he earned a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Duquesne University. He is an award-winning book designer, a published poet, folk artist, and playwright. Frank is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. with his wife, Nancy Koerbel, and their Belgian sheep dog, Nesco. Contact Frank at +1 412.928.5942 or e-mail frank.
Anita has long-standing interest in women’s leadership, identity, and narrative, and has track record of being involved in progressive work that reinforces the strength and energy that comes from women’s distinctiveness. She has been active in women’s leadership development, performance profiles, learnerships, research, and change interventions utilizing Appreciative Inquiry. Companies to whom she has consulted include: MTN, Exxaro, HKLM, Autonet, Edgars, Prestasi Insurance Brokers, Spoornet, NOSA, Anglogold, Nedcor, Documentation and Training International, Transnet, ABSA, Liberty Group, and the South African Police Service. Beyond her extensive consultative portfolio, Anita is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Johannesburg and a board member of the South African Board for Personnel Practice.Anita is energized by challenges that involve optimal organizational functioning and the creation of workplaces where employees are positive, lively and committed. She is actively involved in transforming university learning to complement the needs of the modern workplace and the HRM profession. Anita holds a PhD from the School of Management at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, and is professionally registered as a Master HR practitioner (SABPP)
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