Leona Lewis, J.D. is the owner of ComplyEthic Consulting LLC, a compliance consulting company focused on strategic risk management for consumer product companies.  She is also the host of the weekly podcast Masters of Disaster featuring interviews with risk, ethics and compliance experts and others with experience useful for practitioners.

Leona Lewis has almost two decades of experience in the legal industry focused on the areas of regulatory law, compliance, environmental law, product safety law & product recalls and supply chain risks in the United States and internationally. For the majority of that time, she worked in-house for the electronics retailer, Best Buy.  While in-house, she was a leader in the enterprise risk management program.  Prior to working in-house, she practiced litigation and spent her days and nights as a hired gun in business contract disputes.

Leona received her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a town here a little piece of her heart still resides. Her hometown is East Lansing, Michigan, and she is currently located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Half the year she wonders why she lives there and the other half she enjoys the glorious summer cycling and gardening.

Before studying law, Leona was a sales representative in Dallas, Texas for a U.S. industrial lighting manufacturer, working with engineers and contractors on multi-million-dollar construction projects. In Dallas, Leona learned the meaning of the phrase “all hat, no cattle,” and other Texas sayings that, in only a few words, seem to say it all.