Current Roles - updated March 2026

• Partner & Fractional Chief Growth Officer, Team Uncommon

• Fractional Growth Strategist, Turtle Ventures

• Executive Mentor / Coach, ExCo Group

• Venture Builder - GTM, XcelerateOne

• Executive Advisor, DemandOS

• Faculty, Critical Business School

• Collaborator & 2x Member, Society of Digital Agencies

• Partner, Bradshaw Vineyards

Professional Bio

Leslie Bradshaw is a growth leader who has spent two decades helping agencies, consultancies, and venture-backed companies build repeatable, defensible, and scalable paths to growth.

Across agencies and startups, she has held executive roles spanning general management and go-to-market, with responsibility across revenue, delivery, market expansion, and talent. 

Often brought in when founder- and referral-driven growth has plateaued and leadership focus has fragmented, Leslie works at the intersection of creative strategy and commercial execution to help teams clarify who their customers are, what to sell, and how to package it for changing market conditions and scale.

She co-founded data visualization pioneer JESS3 and helped grow it into an AdAge Small Agency of the Year (Gold, Southeast), a Peabody Award-winner for its redesign of the C-SPAN Archives, and a two-time Inc. 500 company. There she led engagements that challenged conventional agency models and expanded accounts with a roster that included NASA, MTV, Google, Intel, Samsung, Eloqua, Facebook, Nike, and ESPN. She later co-led the U.S. expansion of design and technology studio Made by Many, delivering seven-figure revenue through net-new partnerships with Colgate, CAVA, Nike, NFL, and OXO.

Her career has also included venture building and commercialization for corporate incubators within P&G, TD Ameritrade, and NEOM. She has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the Most Creative People in Business and one of the Most Influential Women in Technology.

In addition to agency leadership, Leslie’s background includes the wine industry, executive coaching, leadership advisory, and work across regulated and emerging technology sectors. She served on the board of Hyper Island through multiple CEO transitions and through to its acquisition in 2021 by Talent Garden.

Her venture work includes experience with natural language processing, data privacy and compliance, digital twin technologies, fintech, CPG, and giga-scale construction. Alongside her operating work, Leslie is a co-founder and Partner at Bradshaw Vineyards, her family’s award-winning Willamette Valley pinot noir vineyard, and serves as an executive coach and leadership facilitator to senior leaders for the ExCo Group. She previously served as a Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Drawing on this range of experiences, Leslie writes and speaks on growth, leadership, technology, and organizational change. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Inc., The New York Times, NPR, The Economist, and FWA, and she has presented and moderated at Google, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, GitHub, Silicon Valley Bank, General Assembly, INBOUND, SoDA, SXSW, and Cannes Lions.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago, Leslie lives in New York City’s East Village with her husband and daughter.

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