Leah Yoneda

Leah doesn't just talk about growth.

She changes the way professionals think about it.

With nearly 25 years of experience in accounting, legal, and financial services firms, Leah has a rare ability to translate complex growth strategies and leadership concepts into practical approaches that professionals can actually use. She has held leadership roles at leading firms and now works across the professional services industry as founder of Golden Ginkgo Group, where she serves as a fractional Chief Marketing Officer, Business Development coach, and leadership coach to firms ranging from sole proprietors to Top 100 global organizations.

Leah is known for her dynamic, engaging presentation style that blends sharp strategic insight with real-world practicality and a healthy dose of humor. She has a gift for making subjects that professionals typically find intimidating (sales, self-promotion, marketing, networking) feel approachable, relevant, and even exciting. Audiences leave her sessions not just informed, but genuinely motivated to do and think differently.

Her speaking topics span the full growth landscape for professional services: building marketing strategies that actually drive revenue, developing business development skills and confidence to win new clients, leveraging personal brand as a competitive advantage, and cultivating the leadership mindset needed to lead high-performing teams in a rapidly changing environment.

Leah has spoken for and collaborated on content with a range of professional membership organizations, multiple women’s leadership consortia, and internal firm learning and development programs.  She is an entrepreneur, a thought leader, a board member, and an active voice in the professional services community.

She brings to every stage what she brings to every client engagement: clarity, energy, and the conviction that growth doesn't have to feel overwhelming; it just has to feel possible.