Colby Leachman
Start-up savvy and based in the Silicon Valley, Colby Leachman is an entrepreneur on an innovative pursuit.
Colby Leachman is an entrepreneur, investor, and advocate driven by a simple vision: build businesses that create lasting impact. As the founder of Full Swell Consulting, he partners with emerging companies at the intersection of innovation and sustainability, helping founders and leadership teams scale bold ideas into market-leading organizations. His work spans enterprise technology, early-stage startups, AI, cannabis, and crypto — industries where disruption meets opportunity.
Through Full Swell, Colby combines deep strategic insight with precise go-to-market execution. His approach is grounded in aligning growth with purpose, ensuring that profit and positive societal change move hand in hand. Whether advising on structure, strategy, or execution, he helps companies not only achieve commercial success but also drive meaningful transformation in their industries and communities.
Beyond his role at Full Swell, Colby is a dedicated advocate for justice reform. As a supporter of the Last Prisoner Project, he champions efforts to end unjust incarceration, particularly for cannabis-related offenses, and works to create pathways for individuals re-entering society. His commitment extends to supporting sustainability efforts through organizations like the World Wildlife Fund, reflecting his belief in protecting both people and the planet.
Colby’s passion for mentorship and youth development is equally evident in his years as a youth soccer coach with the YMCA, where he’s helped instill teamwork, resilience, and leadership skills in young athletes. Outside of business and advocacy, you’ll find him surfing, playing soccer, and celebrating the lifelong value of sport as a source of balance and personal growth.
At his core, Colby Leachman believes that entrepreneurship is most powerful when it fuses innovation, integrity, and impact. His career — and his causes — reflect that mission.
Tech Entrepreneur
Leachman’s intro to the start-up scene in Silicon Valley began with tackling the hassle of group payments. He worked on technology that made payments much easier to divide amongst groups of people. This quickly became the same technology leveraged by Square in their P2P payments platform. Ever since, the entrepreneur has been fascinated by the United States start-up scene. A professional who aims to keep (at least) two paces ahead, Leachman gravitates towards tech’s cutting edge.
Colby Leachman has tons of experience leading and scaling commercial sales teams. He helped grow revenue at an employee training company with features like that of Trainual and ConnectTeam. Along the way, Leachman’s tech career has come to a point of focus in the cannabis, health care and enterprise software applications areas. Leachman previously worked for multiple years to help modernize the cannabis retail experience. Specifically helping implement Point of Sale solutions at dispensaries in Oakland, CA and across the nation, that offered similar functionality to Toast and Clover. Melding his tech focus with other rising industries fuels Leachman’s passion for start-up culture. In 2018, the entrepreneur launched his own platform for packaging solutions in highly regulated markets.
Hobbies & Personal Interests
Even in his downtime, Colby Leachman is all about pinpointing the inner workings. Like millions of Americans who tuned in weekly to revel in the grit and wonder, Leachman is a major fan of HBO’s hit fantasy/drama, Game of Thrones. He chose to dive deep into the story by reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, in its entirety. Reading the series that worked as the backbone for the television adaptation offered him a unique lens as a viewer.
As a reader, Leachman’s bookshelf balances contemporary literature with timeless classics. While he’s all for riding the new wave, he knows that there’s much to learn from the past. His favorite authors include postmodernism legend, Kurt Vonnegut and philosophical novelist, Robert M. Pirsig. In his downtime, it’s not rare to find Leachman deep into a thought-provoking novel. It’s a pastime of relaxation that he enjoys returning to when he’s not catching waves — both literally and figuratively. Fully immersed in the Venice Beach culture, Leachman is an avid surfer. He hits the beach nearly every day and spends his vacation time on surf trips that have taken him all over California, Alaska, Nicaragua and New Zealand.