A heavily-tattooed, 38 year old, Leela Cosgrove doesn’t look like your typical CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting company – but she’s been breaking stereotypes and destroying boxes for most of her life.

Her business growth and sales consulting company was named as one of the top 250 fast-growth companies in the Asia Pacific region (amongst the top 50 of Australian companies named) for 2018 by respected financial publication, the Financial Times.

Founder of The 8 Percent - a group of unique thinkers and top 8 Percent in their industry trail blazers whose end goal is to make the world better through pioneering advances in business, science, the arts and literature, Leela is a creative entrepreneur, publisher and entrepreneurial activist.

Leela’s Great Work is to help The 8 Percent build business models that give them the resources they need to engage with their own Great Work at the highest possible level.

Leela:

• has been named as one of Australia’s top 25 female entrepreneurs under the age of 40;
• spent time on Necker Island with Richard Branson;
• is the Australian Chapter Leader of DWEN (The Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network)
• was nominated for the Veuve Clicquot "New Generation" entrepreneur award;
• has spoken at TEDX; and
• has presented on marketing, identity and The 8 Percent throughout Australia, the US and Asia.