Coming off her 13 year role as Senior Vice President of Music and Talent
at CMT in Nashville, Leslie has assembled a team of strategically aligned and select music business veterans for the purpose of offering advisory services to music-related entities. Leslie has a career spanning several decades in Rock and Alternative Radio. Referred to as the “First Lady of Modern Rock” Leslie is highly respected for both her hit intuition and hard-driving passion for music.
Leslie was the first woman to receive the TJ Martell Award in recognition of
outstanding performance in the music industry in 2000, and was presented with the NARAS-Atlanta Chapter Heroes Award for her outstanding contributions to music and the music community. In 2009, she was honored as a Lifetime Achievement Inductee in the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame, the recipient of the very first ‘Innovation In Music’ Awards held 3 years ago and recognized by the Nashville Business Journal’s ‘Women In Music’ 6 years in a row.
Leslie has served on the Board of the Academy of Country Music, The Recording
Academy/Nashville/Atlanta and New York Chapter, Save The Music, Nashville Music Equality and an alum of Leadership Music Class of 2014. Fram is an avid philanthropist and spokesperson, using her voice to support numerous non-profits and causes. Leslie is a Save The Music Board Director as well as a member of the Music Industry Advisory Board, The Grammy TV Committee and continues to work with Equal Access and Change The Conversation.