Lauren Powers has over 25 years of experience as a renowned executive coach, educator, and change consultant. Her clients range from big tech & finance firms to small non-profits, from government agencies to individual entrepreneurs. All over the world, she offers programs in leadership development, team collaboration, and mindset growth.
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Her work is founded on the principle that we are here to live lives of fulfillment and meaning. She supports people in discovering their own internal world, to heighten their self-awareness, and from this place of self-knowledge, to choose and create a brave life. Through work with values, visions, and creative play, her clients make decisions, act boldly, and increase their power in the world.
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For Lauren, identifying interpretations, assumptions, and unconscious beliefs are where true transformation begins. She is also the author of The Trouble with Thinking. The book explores how our perceptions, our internal operating systems, create the reality we find ourselves in. Once we can observe and shift a perception, we can create new possibilities.
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Since 1998, Lauren has been on faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute where she leads the entire curriculum for training professional coaches. Through the International Coaches Federation, she is recognized as a Master Certified Coach, an endorsement only 4% of all accredited coaches achieve.
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On Udemy, the educational platform, Lauren offers a course on Active Listening which has become a global bestseller. Based on this success, she has written her next book How To Listen Out Loud. Given her commitment to serious fun, Lauren invites readers to play full out in uncovering how intriguing our fellow humans truly are.
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Lauren's clients include:
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Nike
Shantou University (China)
Tom Group (China)
Scripps Networks
YSC Consulting
CO-OP Financial Services
Royal Bank of Scotland (UK)
CapGemini Consulting
Microsoft
Mobile Modular
Wells Fargo
Johnson & Johnson
Marriott Hotels
Adidas
Roche Pharmaceuticals
Genentech
Mozilla
Elekta Cancer Care
Royal Bank of Canada
ING
Computer Sciences Corp
COURSES
Be a Great Listener / Video Course
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.
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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.
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BOOKS
How To Listen Out Loud
GOOD NEWS:
Listening is much more fun and energizing than we’ve been led to believe.
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No endless conversations— you can interrupt!
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No solving required—you can relax!
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No agreement needed—you can be open-minded!
Your curiosity, your creativity, and your attention are essential qualities in the fascinating pursuit of understanding other people and having them feel understood.
Most books on listening tell you that yes, you should listen better, but they neglect to explain how. Master Certified Coach Lauren Powers shares what she had to unlearn as a below-average listener and her surprising discoveries on the way to Listening Out Loud.
In this entertaining how-to guide, Lauren serves up funny stories, wise advice, and "play date" exercises to help you:
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Identify your internal blocks to superstar listening
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Move from the Me Channel to Level Two Listening
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Crank up your natural curiosity through asking super easy questions
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Create conversations you enjoy and impress others with your attentiveness
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?
The Trouble with Thinking
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.
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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.
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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.