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# Leanne Read
## Vice President of Operations
Leanne Read has approximately 21 years of international project management experience, focusing on project controls. Her technical knowledge allows her to support strategic commercial activities for our clients, including maintaining accurate forecasts of costs, providing insight into contractual issues, and developing analytics and reports. Leanne’s operational experience includes optimizing operational processes and being adept at recognizing issues and working alongside other departments to problem solve.
Throughout her career, she has led project controls teams, which included cost managers, schedulers, and compliance experts, to develop robust processes and procedures that allowed her client’s capital project delivery to align with project execution.
Leanne’s other specialties include standardizing documentation and processes, assisting in the development of standards for project execution, and building reports and dashboards to assist with decision-making.
## Top 5 Strengths
- **Harmony** - Leanne looks for consensus. She does not enjoy conflict and seeks areas of agreement.
- **Developer** - Leanne recognizes and cultivates the potential in others. She spots the signs of each small improvement and derives satisfaction from evidence of progress.
- **Consistency** - Leanne is keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. She craves stable routines and clear rules and procedures that everyone can follow.
- **Relator **- Leanne enjoys close relationships with others. She finds deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a common goal.
- **Restorative** - Leanne is adept at dealing with problems. She is good at figuring out what is wrong with resolving them.
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