Laura is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Compassionate Leadership, championing a world where compassionate leadership is the norm, not the exception. She has developed a new model for these turbulent times that melds evidence- based leadership tools and the latest scientific research with the wisdom of contemplative practices.

The Center offers proven principles and practices that support individual thriving as well as organizational systems of safety, connection, and belonging for all. Laura serves as Lead Faculty for the Center’s flagship Compassionate Leadership Certification Training Program, Teacher Training, and organizational training programs.

Over four decades, she has been a weaver of transformative organizations and experiences, as a serial media and tech entrepreneur, Fortune 500 executive, transformational facilitator, nonprofit board member, meditation educator, yoga therapist, and executive advisor. Laura is an alumna of Cornell University and New York University.