Leslie Cimei, MA, BA, is the Director of Professional Development at Great Valley Publishing Company, where she oversees the organization’s accredited continuing education portfolio. She has 25 years’ experience in developing, executing, and analyzing all facets of live and enduring training programs.

As a self-proclaimed lifelong learner, Leslie’s experience managing national and international training, professional development, executive education, and certification programs, and the platforms on which they reside, gives her unique insight into how audiences learn. She’s passionate about creating new relationships and nurturing her existing network of subject matter experts, stakeholders, and influential organizations to bring the highest quality continuing education programs to the greatest number of learners.

Leslie graduated from Syracuse University with dual degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in International Relations. She received her Master of Arts in International Business from Lehigh University. When she doesn’t have her nose in a book, you can find her cheering on Penn State athletics (she married into it) and having fun with her husband and two kids in State College, Pennsylvania.