Laura is the CEO & Founder of Laura A. Davis & Associates, Inc. an Atlanta-based transformational executive coaching and leadership development training firm founded in 1995. Laura and her associates assist individuals, teams, and organizations to navigate the new world of work by developing people to create healthier, engaged, agile cultures. Today more than ever, organizations need emotionally intelligent leaders, cohesive teams, and resilient and flexible people.

Laura and her associates help clients to create high-trust organizations resulting in an increase in employee engagement and passion, team productivity, and profitable results. In addition to her experience with senior teams and leaders of best-in-class companies, she possesses a unique talent for seeing “the big picture” and for simplifying complex problems into their essential elements.

Laura has coached hundreds of senior and mid-level leaders from a wide variety of industries to “get out of their own way” and to become the effective leaders they were meant to be. She uses the original Wiley Everything DiSC as well as other assessment tools to assist leaders in empowering themselves, their teams, and their direct reports to become self-directed and empowered in today’s turbulent environment. She has also designed and delivered learning sessions focused on culture change through the development of facilitative leadership and coaching skills for managers of Fortune 500 companies. She has facilitated numerous transformational change initiatives through face-to-face and virtual delivery mechanisms.

Laura consistently delivers interactive, experiential training sessions in addition to coaching clients one on one and in group settings. Her trainings and consulting days are customized, relevant, and highly impactful and practical for every day work. She consistently gets rave reviews regarding her expertise and the level of engagement she generates.

Laura is a Master Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation, the most rigorous certification body in the coaching industry today. Prior to becoming an ICF Master Certified Executive Leadership Coach and Master Facilitator, Laura held both line and staff marketing management positions at Exxon, Equifax, and United Parcel Service.

She has a BA degree in Sociology with Honors from the University of Delaware. She earned her Master of Business Administration from Emory University on a partial scholarship. She has also been an Adjunct Professor in the Business Studies Program at Mercer University.

She is a sought-after speaker at professional and trade conferences and associations throughout the U.S. She is a contributing author of “A Guide to Getting It: Self-Esteem” and has published numerous articles in industry and professional association publications such as ATD, ICF’s Coaching World, Choice magazine, and more. She has appeared on “Good Day Atlanta,” a morning television show as well as on national and internet radio and podcasts.

Laura is personally committed to practicing her “principles for inspired success” and demonstrates that commitment through her own history of personal transformation and achievement. For additional information about Laura and her firm, please visit www.lauraadavis.com and follow her on social media including @Coachlad, www.linkedin.com/in/lauraadavis, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LauraADavisAndAssociatesInc.

I am passionate about helping to promote conscious leadership and truly cohesive teams. I truly believe business is the arena which will lead the way for the evolution of a better way of working and being together. As we learn to include all voices and to truly collaborate in an empowering way in organizations, we can become the beacons for a better world and better future in all spheres of life.