After leaving the Kroger Company in 2000, Lesa launched not one, but three successful companies, with Mightily being where she focuses her time as CEO, CFO and strategist. Mightily, founded in 2013, is one of the region’s preeminent digital-first branding and advertising agencies and provides full-service support to local, regional and global brands in the areas of web development and technology, branding and creative services and media buying, strategy and ongoing management. She is a speaker on the topics of branding, marketing, business strategy and economic development.
Lesa is a past president of NAWBO Kentucky, serves as a director on the board and a member of the U.S. Policy Council of Airports Council International - North America, a director on the Louisville Regional Airport Authority Board of Directors, chair of the Kentucky Commission on Small Business Innovation and Advocacy and a director on the Greater Louisville Inc. Board of Directors.