The Sleep Edge

CHERIE LECLAIR is a sleep performance coach and workplace wellness consultant who has spent the past dozen years helping professionals, executives, and high-performing teams get better rest on schedules that leave little room for it. Her approach grew out of a straightforward observation from her own career in corporate operations and product management: the people who performed best were rarely the ones working the longest hours, but almost always the ones who protected their recovery. What began as a personal experiment with sleep tracking and habit design became a professional specialty when her colleagues started asking what she was doing differently.

LeClair holds a Master of Science in health communication and is certified in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) through the CBT-I educational programs recognized by the Behavioral Sleep Medicine community. She has advised leadership teams at technology, financial services, and consulting firms, where she translates sleep science into practical systems for travelers, shift workers, and leaders who carry decision fatigue as a job requirement. Her writing on sleep, focus, and sustainable productivity has appeared in business and wellness publications, and she is a regular speaker at professional conferences on the business case for rest.

LeClair's coaching philosophy mirrors the argument of this book: sleep is not a reward for finishing your work, it's the infrastructure that makes the work possible. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and an unreasonably early-rising dog, and she practices what she teaches—which means her mornings start with light, her afternoons end with a caffeine cutoff, and her evenings are, by her own design, refreshingly unremarkable. *The Sleep Edge* is her first book.