Leonard
>My Story

In 2017 Leonard co-founded LL Music, a music production company and
record label. He received two Grammy nominations in 2018 for his first
album, Rendezvous, featuring the singer, Clint Holmes. In Your Arms Forever,
the song he wrote for his wife Linda charted on UK Radio in the very first
week it was released and received over 50,000 views on YouTube. It was
also number 5 on Italy's Independent Radio Top 100 Playlist. One of his
children's songs, Let's be Silly, was a semi-finalist in the International
Songwriting Competition (ISC), the most prestigious songwriting competition
>His autobiography, My Journey: (Lessons I've Learned Along the Way), was
selected by UK Talk Radio as one of the top 10 must-read books in 2021. His
first children's book, Grinza's Orchard, was an Amazon number 1 bestseller.
His most recent book, If I Were a Pony, a poem about the relationship
between a young lad and his pony, aimed at the grade school audience, has
won eleven awards including Creative Child Magazine's 2021 Book of the
Year. And his poem, Why I Love Baseball, along with his thoughts on the
>Leonard Eckhaus is also the founder of AFCOM (1980), the leading
association in the world for Data Center Managers; he established and
presided over The Data Center Institute, a think tank of leading computer
industry corporate and data center visionaries; and he created, produced and
published DCM, an award-winning magazine. His comments and information
about the growth and impact of Data Centers have appeared in such major
publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the
>Leonard has served on the Boards of the Nevada Ballet Theater and the Las
Vegas Philharmonic. He and his wife Linda are Capstone contributors at Las
Vegas' Smith Center for the Performing Arts. They also support the Las
Vegas Opera and the local Chamber Music Society.
Leonard is married to his childhood sweetheart, Linda, for 60 years. They
have two children, Lee and Jill, and three grandchildren, Stephen, Mikki and
Hannah. He and his wife have been living in Las Vegas for the past twenty-
two years and have traveled the world extensively, visiting over 90 countries
and all seven continents.