Our Team
Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST, is the founder of the world’s premier Agile consultancy focused exclusively on supporting nonprofits, charities, and NGOs in using Agile ways of working to achieve impact in their communities more quickly, yet at a sustainable pace.
Since founding the company in 2006, Diane and her team have secured more than $137.4 million in competitive grant awards using Agile methodologies, which they now train organizations to use as well. Diane and her team have trained nearly 100,000 individuals in grant writing and nonprofit capacity building, and nearly 7,000 in Agile ways of working in any nonprofit team setting.
The co-host of Agile Driven Impact, a podcast for changemakers, Diane is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and trainer. She has spoken at the Grant Professionals Association GrantSummit annually since 2012 and has been a speaker for the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference annually since 2017, speaking before audiences of 500+ on Agile approaches to teamwork and grant writing.
Diane is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC), Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association, and a Registered Scrum Trainer (RST) through the Agile Education Program powered by Scrum, Inc.
Erich Leonard, RST is a Scrum Trainer, Product Owner, and Scrum Master Credentialed by the Agile Education powered by Scrum Inc., Certified Scrum @ Scale, and Certified Scrum in Hardware Trainer.
Erich is an experienced Enterprise Agile Coach and Director of Agile Practice in railroad and automotive system design, development, and deployment. Erich has been coaching and facilitating agile-minded teams since his days on the Cornell University Formula SAE team as an undergraduate. Erich supports the curriculum development and training work of Agile in Nonprofits bringing in experiences from a wide range of team and business settings.
Erich is passionate about using Scrum in all elements of his life, so when not focusing on helping businesses succeed and create greater impact, better products, and happier customers with Scrum, he can be found using Scrum to coach the First Lego League community team the Heritage Hi-Techs of middle school students.
Megan Martin, RPO is a Registered Scrum Master and Registered Product Owner serving as the Marketing and Training Product Owner for our team at DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing and Agile in Nonprofits. Megan has a passion for marketing with a background in business such as; administrative assistant, accounts receivable, and business manager. Megan has worked with large corporations such as Howard Hanna and small privately owned businesses such as Classic Island Cruises. She also volunteers in her small town of Clayton with groups like Rotary and TIERS. In her free time in the summers you can find her out on the river enjoying the boat and spending time with family, during the winters you’ll find her hibernating waiting for boating season to come again.
