Leslie Peragine
About

Leslie Peragine

Technology Leadership & Organizational Advisory


Leslie Peragine is a technology executive and organizational transformation advisor who helps CIOs, CTOs, and IT leaders rebuild underperforming technology organizations. With more than 25 years leading global engineering, operations, and transformation initiatives for Fortune 100 financial institutions, she specializes in restoring operational discipline, strengthening leadership teams, improving governance, and creating the organizational foundations required for modernization. Rather than focusing on technology alone, Leslie helps leaders solve the organizational issues that prevent IT from delivering. She brings clarity, accountability, and confidence back to technology organizations.

Throughout her career, Leslie has led complex enterprise transformations spanning engineering, cloud modernization, operational risk, client experience, regulatory programs, and organizational redesign. She is known for helping executive teams stabilize struggling organizations, establish scalable operating models, and build high-performing cultures capable of sustaining long-term change.

What differentiates Leslie is her ability to combine deep technology leadership with executive coaching. As an ICF-accredited Certified Professional Coach, she helps technology leaders navigate the human side of change, developing stronger leadership capabilities, aligning teams around a shared vision, and creating cultures built on accountability, collaboration, and trust. Combined with her FINRA Series 7, 27, and 63 credentials and over two decades of executive leadership, Leslie brings a rare blend of strategic, operational, and people-focused expertise to every engagement.

Every technology organization reaches an inflection point


Sometimes growth outpaces the operating model. Sometimes years of competing priorities create technical debt and organizational confusion. Sometimes leadership changes, business expectations evolve, or a major transformation stalls under the weight of competing demands.

From the outside, these challenges often appear to be technology problems, but in my experience, they rarely are.

More often, they're symptoms of something deeper: unclear ownership, fragmented decision-making, inconsistent execution, disconnected teams, and operating models that no longer support the business they're meant to serve.

My work begins by understanding those underlying dynamics.

Rather than arriving with a predetermined methodology, I work closely with executive leadership to understand how the organization functions today, where friction exists, and what is preventing teams from delivering consistently. Together, we identify the practical changes that restore clarity, strengthen accountability, and create an organization capable of sustained execution.

The solutions are rarely about introducing more process. They're about establishing the right process, defining responsibilities that people understand, creating governance that enables rather than constrains, and developing leaders who can carry the organization forward long after the engagement ends.

Throughout my career, I've found that the most successful technology organizations share a common characteristic: people know what's expected of them, leaders make decisions with confidence, and teams understand how their work contributes to business outcomes.

That's the environment I help organizations build.

Whether I'm advising a newly appointed CIO, partnering with an executive team preparing for modernization, or helping an organization recover from years of operational drift, my objective is always the same:

  • Restore confidence.
  • Build capability.
  • Create an IT organization that the business trusts.