Lesli has been with AbbVie (formerly with Abbott) since 2002 and is currently the Vice President of Global Benefits & Well-Being.  She leads the global benefits team responsible for health & welfare, retirement, AbbVie Vitality (AbbVie’s overall well-being program) and plays a lead role in M&A integration activities.  Although she has spent most of her time at Abbott/AbbVie with a range of responsibilities in benefits, she has also had responsibility for AbbVie’s HR Six Sigma team, Global Payroll operations and was part of the steering committee leading AbbVie’s HRConnect implementations (insourcing HR operations and payroll). 

She has over 30 years of experience in human resources, health care, and work-life.  Prior to joining AbbVie, she did strategy consulting for the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association.

Lesli attended Northwestern University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Organizational Studies and her MBA in Health Services Management and Marketing from Kellogg Graduate School of Management.  Lesli and her husband are enjoying empty nesting, with both their son and daughter in college.