About SOL
Linda Ford
Linda always has been interested in peoples’ lives and their stories. Even at a very young age she was keenly aware of the need for social justice.
Linda’s daughter, now in her 40s, was born with a significant brain injury that caused seizures and placed her on the Autistic Spectrum. In part because of her daughter’s challenges, Linda has a broad range of experience in negotiation and advocacy in healthcare and education systems, independent living situations, and employment for people with disabilities. Her passion is to assist and support caregivers in navigating the emotional and logistical challenges associated with supporting family members with disabilities. She brings the key values of listening, integrity and resilience to all of her work.
Linda has more than 35 years of executive-level expertise, including strategic planning. For most of her career, which began at Children’s Hospital Colorado, she has specialized in start-ups and turnarounds for philanthropic organizations. Early on, Linda led a cutting-edge fundraising effort to create what is today the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, cultivating a $25 million gift — at the time, the single largest donation in Colorado’s history from The Anschutz Foundation. Most recently, Linda served as Executive Director of the Denver Health Foundation.
Linda also has left her professional mark in California, where she served as CEO of Natividad Foundation, which supports a large safety net hospital in the Salinas Valley. While there, she led a team that developed Indigenous Interpreting+, one of the first healthcare interpreting programs for Indigenous people in the United States — an initiative that was showcased on BBC World News.
Linda also has provided her expertise in consulting for Scripps Medical Center and Philip Glass, and worked with Carnegie Hall.
Throughout her busy career, Linda has participated in medical missions around the world. She accompanied Open Heart Project to Kazakhstan. In Uganda, she worked with a medical team performing fistula surgery for women in need. And in China, she was one of the first lecturers on the subject of philanthropy. Linda also has served as a board member at several nonprofit agencies, including Special Olympics and Project PAVE.
A Trained Executive Coach since 2002, Linda completed Brown University’s Advanced Leadership Coaching Course. She also has a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in gerontology.
Linda lives in Denver near her two daughters and granddaughter. She enjoys cooking, interior design, travel, reading and her time with art.
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Jennifer Leidich
Jennifer believes our ability to relate meaningfully as partners, leaders, managers, parents and friends springs from the quality of our self-awareness.
Her coaching practice draws from more than 20 years of executive experience, from her training as a Leadership coach, and from her own experience of living into the question “How can I allow my life to be mine in the truest way?” Jennifer is committed to offering her services to individuals, communities, non-profits, and businesses that might not yet have access to coaching.
Jennifer has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of the ACT Leadership and Performance Coaching program at Brown University. She is also trained in the Positive Intelligence® mental fitness methodology. To help her clients create their most fulfilled personal and professional lives, Jennifer’s coaching pulls on many other practices as well, such as greater connectedness inspired by love letter writing.
For more than two decades, Jennifer, who is bilingual, has worked as chief executive officer of Mercury Data, a Mexico City-based information management company she co-founded. She has supported diverse social enterprise initiatives and is proficient in change management, team building, performance feedback, and internal communication structures.
In the nonprofit world, Jennifer collaborates with Partners in Agriculture on an initiative she co-founded in 2018 to provide lasting food security and economic development opportunities in agriculture and livestock management to a rural community in Haiti. She has also served as a senior advisor to Indigenous Interpreting+ at Natividad Foundation, which supports a large safety net hospital in California’s Salinas Valley.
Jennifer has three grown sons and makes her home in the Texas Hill Country. Wherever she goes, she pursues her passion for trail running, writing, listening to people’s stories and creating greater connection.
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