Lauren Powers, MCC, believes we are here to live lives of deep fulfillment, play, and meaning. In her decades as a Master Certified Coach, organizational consultant, and educator, Lauren has supported individuals and teams in navigating their internal landscapes to unlock authentic, grounded self-expression. By moving from self-knowledge to values-based decision-making, her clients learn to take bold, creative action and expand their power in the world.
A senior faculty member with the Co-Active Training Institute, Lauren is among the 4 % of coaches globally to hold the MCC designation. She is backed by a toolkit of deep-dive assessments, including the Leadership Circle Profile, MBTI, and Hogan.
Lauren specializes in exploring the "internal operating systems" that define our reality. In her first book, The Trouble with Thinking, she uncovers the very human habits of thought that limit us and ways to move past them. Her Udemy bestselling course on Active Listening and the related book, How To Listen Out Loud, outline both the internal mindsets and external behaviors that make for superstar listening.
​
A few of Lauren's clients:
​
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Genentech
Mozilla
​Nike
ING​
CapGemini Consulting
Microsoft
Mobile Modular
Johnson & Johnson
Marriott Hotels
​
Elekta Cancer Care
Shantou University (China)
Scripps Networks
CO-OP Financial Services
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK)
BOOKS & COURSES
You Can Be a Great Listener
Video Course on Udemy
Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening. While regular listening can look like being blank and silent, Active Listening is engaged, creative, and responsive.
​
In this course, you will gain both the internal awareness and external skill-set that are the foundation of Active Listening. This workshop is packed with real-world examples that demystify and simplify what to pay attention to so you can be a great listener. You will be able to have far more satisfying, interesting, successful conversations.
​
​
How To Listen Out Loud: Ridiculously Powerful Skills for Leading, Relating, and Happifying
GOOD NEWS: Listening is more fun and energizing than we thought.
-
No endless conversations— you can interrupt!
-
No solving required—you can relax!
-
No agreement needed—you can be open-minded!
Your curiosity, creativity, and attention are essential qualities in the fascinating pursuit of understanding other people and having them feel understood.
Lauren explains what she had to unlearn as a below-average listener and her surprising discoveries on the way to becoming an Out Loud Listener.
​
By the end of this mind-expanding book, you’ll understand why you listen the way you do, what to pay attention to, and how to think about listening as a power tool. Simply put, listening well makes other people more interesting and less irritating. Wouldn't that be helpful right about now?
Less Negative Bias, More Positive Impact
Video Course on Udemy
Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening. While regular listening can look like being blank and silent, Active Listening is engaged, creative, and responsive.
​
In this course, you will gain both the internal awareness and external skill-set that are the foundation of Active Listening. This workshop is packed with real-world examples that demystify and simplify what to pay attention to so you can be a great listener. You will be able to have far more satisfying, interesting, successful conversations.
​
​
The Trouble with Thinking: Adventures In Self Smarts
In The Trouble with Thinking Lauren describes how our habits of thinking don’t always help us. In this surprisingly funny book, she shows how often we run on autopilot, making up negative stories about our lives and the people in them.
​
Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, she describes the way that our emotions, our judgments, our upbringing, even our biochemistry, can affect us more than we would like. The decisions we make based on this “thinking” can lead to all kinds of unhappiness—hurt feelings, antagonistic relationships, and serious mistakes.
​
By detailing our automatic thinking, the Rat Brain Loop as she calls it, Lauren shows how to change this unconscious pattern. For truly, we can make choices about how we interpret information, how we interact with people, and how we can own our thinking instead of letting it own us.