Beth Leonard R3

Ms. Beth Leonard, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for R3 (www.r3-it.com), is an award-winning speaker in her field; frequently invited to both local and international-level industry events to speak about such topics as compliance, governance, quality, and customer satisfaction using industry best practices and standards such as NIST, CMMC, ISO, CMMI, and ITIL. She is a Neuroendocrine (NET) Cancer patient advocate and has supported various organizations including providing patient perspective input into the design of a clinical study with the International Neuroendocrine Cancer Alliance (INCA) as well as filming a live educational panel broadcast in conjunction with Carcinoid Cancer Foundation. 

Ms. Beth Leonard is a well-respected executive with over 30 years of IT/IS management, compliance, quality assurance, and process improvement experience across the government contracting and commercial industries. She is an ITIL Expert and has numerous certifications including ITIL Expert – Trainer – and Proctor, ISO Lead Auditor (ISO standards: 9001, 19011, 20000-1, 27001), A2LA accredited ISO/IEC 17020:2012 assessor, Black Belt Six Sigma, and PMP, and has strong experience in CMMI-DEV, CMMI-SVC, HIPAA, PCI, SOC, and NIST SP 800.171/800.53 security controls. In conjunction, she is a certified FSO; understanding both industrial and cyber/information security best practices. She has previously held positions in the areas of program/project management, security management, service management, and all support functions within the software and service development lifecycles.  

Ms. Leonard has implemented and maintained customer satisfaction programs, organizational metrics programs based on Six Sigma methods, as well as corporate and project level quality and process programs based on best practices from ISO, ITIL, PMPBOK, and the CMMI frameworks and standards.  

Ms. Leonard has had numerous successful appraisals for both CMMI for Services (Maturity Level 3) and CMMI for Development (Maturity Level 5) as well as multiple ITIL, SOC, PCI, and ISO implementations – including single and integrated management system certifications for quality (ISO 9001), service (ISO 20000), and information security management (ISO 27001). 

Blog: https://www.facebook.com/LIVEwithNETS/ 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-leonard/ 

Links: https://www.carcinoid.org/beth-leonard-living-neuroendocrine-cancer/ 

Podcast: https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2017/10/15/spamcast-464-beth-leonard-risk-based-thinking-and-more/ 

CancerCoachLive: https://www.cancercoachlive.com/app/carcinoid-syndrome/presentation/062018_carcinoidSyndrome_PAT