Member since August 2025
Lorna E. McFarlane, MBA is a transformational speaker and mindset strategist who helps individuals and organizations overcome limiting beliefs and self-sabotage. With a background in business and personal development, she guides audiences to master time management, organization, and purposeful action.
Lorna has delivered nearly 100 talks in prisons, helping people break mental barriers—insights she now brings to workplaces to foster accountability, forgiveness, and growth. Known as a “mental tow truck,” she helps people remove roadblocks and get back on track toward breakthroughs.
Her message is simple yet powerful: when one person wins, everyone moves forward.
My passion is helping people break free from the mental and emotional patterns that keep them stuck. I’ve been there — chasing shiny objects, doubting myself, and running into the same roadblocks over and over. Through that journey, I learned how powerful mindset work truly is.
Today, I’m passionate about helping others uncover what’s holding them back — procrastination, disorganization, fear, or faulty thinking — and replace it with clarity, accountability, and purpose. Whether I’m speaking in a corporate boardroom or inside a prison, my goal is the same: to help people see what’s possible when they forgive themselves, take responsibility, and move forward with grace.
Transformation is my heartbeat. Watching people shift from frustration to freedom — that’s what drives me every single day.
It's what we don't know we're thinking that is actually driving our reactions, our responses, our thoughts and our emotions. Our subconscious and unconscious make up about 70 to 90% of our decision making. Our past experiences or reminders can trigger responses. Sometimes our responses are misguided and/or projected onto the listener who really should not be the intended recipient.
So I went through the car wash a few months back and the gentleman did not offer me the two little wet wipes. Well I saw him give it to the previous two drivers and I took it personal. Well, come to find out, he said they changed their policy and only hand them out if you ask. I automatically thought it was because I was older, I was a female, I was a minority, my car was kind of junky inside. It was all story, rhetoric, unfair to the gentleman and unfair to my blood pressure.
I have been speaking for over ten years. I can still remember playground trauma back in elementary school in Toronto, Canada. I can remember the very last day of middle school and my very first kiss, it was just a peck. I can remember being teased in high school about my lips. Somethings that are completely forgettable to one person are unforgettable to others. The things that have made me cry and kept me up at night have also caused me to reflect on how other people cope with and interpret their traumatic experiences. I decided that I could help people figure out how to unpack and reframe the most painful life events. Some of those events seem to haunt them continuously to the point that their mental health is affected.
It's what we don't know we're thinking that is actually driving our reactions, our responses, our thoughts and our emotions. Our subconscious and unconscious make up about 70 to 90% of our decision making. Our past experiences or reminders can trigger responses. Sometimes our responses are misguided and/or projected onto the listener who really should not be the intended recipient.
So I went through the car wash a few months back and the gentleman did not offer me the two little wet wipes. Well I saw him give it to the previous two drivers and I took it personal. Well, come to find out, he said they changed their policy and only hand them out if you ask. I automatically thought it was because I was older, I was a female, I was a minority, my car was kind of junky inside. It was all story, rhetoric, unfair to the gentleman and unfair to my blood pressure.
I have been speaking for over ten years. I can still remember playground trauma back in elementary school in Toronto, Canada. I can remember the very last day of middle school and my very first kiss, it was just a peck. I can remember being teased in high school about my lips. Somethings that are completely forgettable to one person are unforgettable to others. The things that have made me cry and kept me up at night have also caused me to reflect on how other people cope with and interpret their traumatic experiences. I decided that I could help people figure out how to unpack and reframe the most painful life events. Some of those events seem to haunt them continuously to the point that their mental health is affected.
