Leesa Stevens brings more than eighteen years of event and marketing experience to SH Worldwide. In addition to managing a team of event professionals, most recently Leesa has been the lead for the Microsoft Healthplan Executive Forum, xDM12, and the Spouse Program for the Microsoft CEO Summit.

Prior to joining SH Worldwide, Leesa was a senior event manager at Wellstream Events for nine years. Her diverse repertoire includes tradeshows, conferences, road shows, and specialized events. Leesa has been the lead event logistics manager for CTIA Wireless (Microsoft Booth), SAPPHIRE (Microsoft Booth), Global Developer and Deployment Conference, Windows Mobile Design Review, F5 Networks International Sales Conference, .NET Summit Days Road Show, and Microsoft’s participation at the NASDAQ-100 Open and PGA Golf Tournament.

Formerly the lead marketing associate at MidStream Technologies, Leesa developed and organized the company’s marketing initiatives and coordinated several partnership events, including Streaming Media West and the National Association of Broadcasters.

From 1995 to 2000, she was an event manager at Janet Church & Associates and consulted on dozens of events with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $3,000,000. She began her career at Federal Sign, a subdivision of Federal Signal (a Fortune 1000 company), where she managed the local events division and an annual events and marketing budget of $500,000.00.

Leesa earned her degree in Communications from Western Washington University.