MPH, PCC, RIHEL – Director of Coaching Services
Leanne Jeffers, MPH, PCC is the Director of Coaching Services at the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL).
For over 30 years, Leanne has worked in the health and public health sectors, with an emphasis on professional development, coaching, healthy community design, community health, and health promotion. Leanne earned her Master of Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles, her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation and is a graduate of both the National Public Health Leadership Institute and the RIHEL Advanced Leadership Training Program.
As the Director of RIHEL’s Coaching Services, Leanne manages the coaching components within RIHEL’s comprehensive leadership programs, oversees RIHEL’s personal coaching services, and directs the RIHEL Coaching Academy, an accredited coach training program.
Leanne is a core faculty member for RIHEL’s comprehensive leadership programs and a lead RIHEL trainer, delivering a variety of workshops for organizations and professional associations around the U.S. She is a a certified facilitator of The Leadership Challenge Workshop, and a certified administrator for both the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment and the Influence Style Indicator.
Since 2000, she has been coaching individuals and groups and training others to be peer and professional coaches.
Since starting with RIHEL in 2003, Leanne has also managed the RIHEL Advanced Leadership Training Program (ALTP), directed the RIHEL Leadership for Healthy Community Design (LHCD) program, coordinated Emergency Preparedness training for public and environmental health professionals, and provided training, facilitation and coaching to build professional and community capacity in the area of healthy community design.
Leanne is currently serving her third year as a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee with the Colorado Chapter of the International Coaching Federation (2022-2025). She previously was on the Governing Board of Directors for WalkDenver for five years (2015 – 2019; Chair 2017-2019), and served on the Denver Regional Council of Governments Metro Vision Planning Advisory Committee for two years (2012-2014).
