Rebecca Leder is the bestselling author of KNOCK: How to Open Doors and Build Career Relationships that Matter. She is an instructional designer, creating and facilitating engaging and interactive career development learning experiences to help workplaces build cultures of connection and inclusion, and students and professionals build careers of meaning. 

She completed the Positive Leader program at University of Michigan Ross School of Business and is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in Learning Design & Technology from the Harvard Extension School. Prior to becoming a career educator, Rebecca was a marketing leader at Salesforce for over six years, where she brought one hundred team members from two internal teams together through her unique collaboration strategies to create new digital learning products that helped 15K customers. 

Rebecca founded an award-winning blog, TheRebeccammendations® in 2009, and a marketing consulting company for small businesses, startups, and nonprofits at the age of 26, when she was named a Rising Star finalist in the Austin Business Journal’s Women of Influence awards. 

She has shared her career development, personal branding, and marketing insights for 50+ companies, classrooms, and conferences, large and small, including: Aon, Salesforce, Year Up, General Assembly, Denver Scholarship Foundation, Jewish Colorado, Denver Jewish Chamber of Commerce, DePaul and Loyola Universities, Startup Institute Chicago, BlogHer, and YearUp.

Rebecca has navigated several career changes, interview cycles, and connected with thought leaders using a methodology she authored – 5 steps to building high quality career relationships: The Knock Method®, featured by FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, NPR, and PBS. To date, it has been shared in classrooms and workshops with 850+ professionals and students in partnership with 12+ organizations who are putting the steps into practice as they build their careers and build more human connection at work. 

Rebecca lives in Denver with her adored husband and fluffy pup, Chef, and loves entertaining at home, hiking, yoga, traveling, and bringing people together to watch the magic of connection happen.