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Leslie Owens is Executive Director and MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School’s Center for Information Systems Research where she helps define sponsorship models; supervises sponsor-defined student projects for T-Lab, CISR’s MIT Sloan Action Learning course; defines communications strategy to optimize the impact of CISR research; designs and hosts CISR sponsor event programs; and leads staff development efforts. She works with other CISR leaders to provide CISR’s strategic direction.

Leslie joins MIT CISR from Forrester Research where she was a Vice President and Research Director. In this role she managed a team of analysts and was responsible for leading research projects, delivering research and consulting services to clients, and speaking at major client events.