About LeAnn

       “I’m going to live my life differently after hearing you today.” That’s how one healthcare CEO summed up his reaction after hearing LeAnn’s powerful keynote sharing life-changing lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Imagine bombs falling and 100 little babies laying three and four to a cardboard box, strapped in the belly of a gutted cargo jet! Believing we all have individual “war zones,” LeAnn inspires audiences to balance their lives, truly live their priorities and make a difference in the world.

       A nurse for thirty years and coauthor of bestseller Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul, LeAnn knows first hand the “war zones” of healthcare today. By inspiring people to care for themselves as they care for others, she boosts morale, creating positive people who then produce positive outcomes.

       While health organizations and women groups are an obvious “niche” for her keynote addresses and seminars, her audiences have grown to include cattlemen, contractors, and corporate America.

LeAnn is a professional speaker, author and nurse, but her favorite role is still wife and mother.

While the "Operation Babylift" experience dramatically changed her life, LeAnn credits her rural roots for having shaped it. One of eight children, she was raised on an Iowa farm. This simple and honorable lifestyle established the principles and  priorities that guide her life today.

LeAnn and Mark, her husband of thirty-eight years,  reside in Colorado where they enjoy their "empty nest."

When she's not writing stories beside a peaceful mountain stream, LeAnn enjoys hiking, gardening, playing with little kids, and dancing to that old-time rock n' roll!