Leslie Traub
Leslie Traub is a seasoned facilitator, consultant, and coach dedicated to supporting women over 50 as they navigate life’s most meaningful transitions. Based in Middletown, Virginia, she is the founder of Rewiring Together, where she designs and leads immersive workshops and integration coaching experiences that help women reflect, heal, and reimagine their next chapter. Her work combines group process facilitation with principles of neuroplasticity, creating spaces where participants can reconnect with their authentic selves and move forward with clarity, purpose, and community.
With more than four decades of experience, Traub has built a distinguished career in organizational development, leadership training, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has worked with many Fortune 100 companies, leading universities, and global professional services firms, delivering impactful consulting and thought leadership. Her background spans roles as Chair and Chief Consulting Officer at Cook Ross Inc., Principal Consultant at Udarta Consulting, and Co-Founder of the Inclusion Allies Network. Her early career includes service in the Peace Corps and leadership roles in public health and training, all of which shaped her deep expertise in human development, communication, and transformational learning.
Today, Traub’s work reflects both her professional mastery and her personal evolution. Through Rewiring Together workshops, retreats, and ongoing community engagement, she guides women through identity shifts related to retirement, loss, and reinvention. Drawing from her training in end-of-life care, instructional design, and social science, she integrates emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions into her programs. In addition to her coaching practice, she remains actively involved in philanthropy and volunteer work, including hospice care and animal welfare, while continuing to inspire women to embrace growth, connection, and possibility in the second half of life.
• Master's degree in epidemiology and biostatistics
• Certificate in instructional design
• University of Vermont
• The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
• Faculty Member at Omega Institute 2026
• United Hospice Blue Ridge
• The Loeb Foundation
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
When I left the Peace Corps, the person who guided me said, when you go to graduate school within a field, do a hard track, not an easy track. In other words, roll up your sleeves and don't coast through grad school, but do something that makes your brain work and is meaningful. Another really important piece of career advice came from an African-American woman on our team when I was working in the diversity, equity, and inclusion world. Her advice to me was to not try so hard to fit in that world. Don't try so hard, just be yourself, and don't be anything that you're not. It's like, don't try to be somebody you're not. Stay in your lane, be yourself with a big heart, and don't try to be somebody you're not. That was very early in my career, but it was really seminal advice for me.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
If you have a job that you enjoy, and yet you want to expand into an adjacent role or an adjacent field, find someone in your organization doing that work and try it on with their mentoring, if possible, before you leave your job to do something new. There are a lot of people who want to go out and start consulting after working in corporate, and I'm like, do the consulting work you want to do out here, do it in your organization first, and get some skill under your belt before you hang a shingle, or try to have somebody hire you to do something that you've not done a lot of before.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
My industry is decimated right now, so it's limping terribly. It will come back, but right now it's in a difficult state. In my current work, I'm trying to orient women towards living fully instead of performing some role that is expected of them, rather than what's in their heart and their heart space, and where they're on purpose in their life. I'm trying to help women distinguish between obligation and purpose, because that's a big collapse. We're so conditioned toward work, especially women, Gen X and baby boomers. We're really conditioned to working, and so when we approach the time when we're either forced to retire or there's other compelling reasons to retire, what we think about is, well, what am I going to do, which translates into, how am I going to make money. There is quite a serious addiction to being busy. I really encourage women to sit with a financial advisor and look at your assets and whatever you've saved and Social Security and all of that, and look to see how much money do you need to meet your goals. I've seen so many women feel like they need to keep making money when they actually don't, because it's a habit, because of a scarcity mindset around money.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values most important to me are contribution, authenticity, being purposeful in my life, and gratitude. Gratitude is huge for me.