Leslie Gray brings to GrowthPort Partners over 25 years of diverse experience in senior corporate human resources management and consulting, organizational development, employee benefits, risk management and entrepreneurial experience.

Leslie’s management experience includes twelve years as Director of Human Resources for two Southern-California based law firms, one, a spin-off from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and another spin-off from Buchanan Ingersoll, et. al. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Leslie functioned as Director of Recruiting, Training and Development, employee benefits, safety and facilities management and was integral in leasing and contract negotiations as well as firm expansion.

In addition to acting as Director of Human Resources, Leslie simultaneously consulted in the position of Senior Associate for an environmental compliance firm in the Inland Empire wherefrom she gained great exposure and training in comprehensive risk management and Cal/OSHA health and safety compliance.  In this capacity, Leslie traveled extensively and conducted onsite environmental and health and safety inspections for Fortune 50 companies based throughout the State of California

Following her passion in consulting, Leslie was hired on as Vice President of the Risk Management Division of ManagEase, Incorporated, a human resources outsourcing firm located in Orange, California.  In addition to acting as Senior Human Resources Consultant and Project Manager, Leslie single-handedly developed and managed, a profitable employee benefits and risk management division including the creation and implementation of various compliance plans and training modules.  Leslie was frequently engaged by firm clientele as an expert witness in the areas of wage and hour issues, employee benefits and policy interpretation.  In addition, Leslie lead and continues to conduct  investigations into sexual harassment, disparate treatment, reasonable accommodation under the ADA including the  interactive process, privacy violations and wrongful terminations for California employers for the past 15 years.  This development and success increased the company’s profitability and Leslie departed to start her own consulting firm.

Leslie founded Innovative Business Strategies, LLC (“IBS”), a Southern California based business-consulting firm that offered expert witness, employee benefits, risk management, compliance and human resource infrastructure and support services to its clientele in 2001.  IBS became so successful in its first year of operations that two of its divisions merged in 2003 with Human Capital Co-Op, LLC, (HCC) of which Leslie was a principal and co-founder.  HCC recently changed its name to GrowthPort Partners and continues to provide the same “Fortune-50” quality workplace solutions to a variety of prominent businesses such as Shelly Group, Arnel Development, Statco Engineering & Fabricators, Inc., West Coast Sand & Gravel, CPS Express, Cloud B, HKS USA, Inc., and Von Hemert Interiors.

Leslie is an active Associate member of the California Association of Workplace Investigators and holds multiple state professional licenses in life and disability insurance. Leslie attended the University of Pittsburgh and is also a certified Paralegal.