Leanne joined Health Quality BC in May 2023. As a Registered Nurse with an Honours Degree in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, Leanne is a clinical professional that has practiced in both the United Kingdom and Canada. Since her move to B.C., Leanne has worked predominantly in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, conducting the review of patient safety adverse events and patient care concerns, developing innovative quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based policy and procedures, and monitoring for quality assurance. Leanne is currently studying for her Master of Science in Human Factors Engineering.

Throughout her career, Leanne has promoted a just culture and an evolving philosophy of continuous quality improvement and patient safety. Her asset-based approach helps to build capacity and empower individuals and teams to drive positive change. Leanne takes a genuine interest in people, investing time to learn about what is important to them, in order to build and sustain engaging and collaborative relationships. She believes that it is vital to listen to the voice of the patient and their kin, the service user and the provider when co-designing and effecting sustainable systems level change.

As a first-generation settler of English descent, Leanne is privileged to live and work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. When not at work, Leanne enjoys exploring the Okanagan, paddle boarding on the many beautiful lakes and curling up with a fantasy or mythological retelling book.