© 2011 Laurie Gardner
For the past 15 years, Laurie has been helping both individuals and organizations to “get unstuck” and operate to their full potential. Laurie has a unique talent for immediately getting to the core of an issue and reaching solutions in an extremely efficient, focused way.
Organizational coaching:
Laurie’s services include:
- Leadership coaching
- Organization-wide training and strategic retreats
- Group facilitation
- Mediation
Laurie’s specialties are:
- Leadership
- Strategy/strategic planning
- Personnel
- Non-profit start-up and management
- Charter school start-up and management
- Facilitation/mediation
- Managing change
Laurie works with corporations, non-profits, schools, and government agencies in both private and business settings.
Life coaching:
In addition to coaching organizations and their leaders, Laurie also coaches individuals who are interested in finding greater fulfillment in their lives. During these intensive, one-on-one sessions, Laurie integrates a diverse range of spiritual and religious traditions, schools of psychology, and personal life lessons, focusing and tailoring to an individual’s situation and needs. She is a highly insightful, intuitive coach. Sessions include interactive discussions, experiential activities, and the use of humor wherever possible.
Coaching may be done in-person, by phone, or through Skype and is scheduled according to individual goals.
Contact Laurie for a free 15-minute consultation and pricing. Prices range from $150-$500 per hour, based on specific needs and deliverables.
What Laurie’s clients are saying…
“With on-point, laser-like efficiency, Laurie leaves you no doubt about which way to go.”
- 40-year-old radio journalist, Washington, D.C.
“Laurie has absolutely changed my life. With compassion and wisdom, she cuts to the core and dishes it to you straight: ‘I understand you…I’ve been there…this is what I learned’….”
- 37-year-old artist, Toronto, Canada
“Laurie’s guidance has been critical to our organization and to us as leaders. She draws from a wealth of personal knowledge and experience that she is able to apply appropriately to our situation. Her coaching style is flexible and supportive and allows us to come to (newly) well-informed decisions and conclusions, vs. simply telling us what is the “right” thing to do.”
- 38-year-old non-profit founder and director, Portland, ME
“Laurie helps you figure out how to take everything you love and are good at so you can have the richest, most joyful life you never imagined.”
- 47-year-old businesswoman, San Francisco, CA
“Laurie was a very stabilizing influence during my tenure as a principal. Her ability to cause me to look within myself to seek honest and real solutions is truly a gift that very few people I have known over the last 62 years possess.”
- 62-year-old public school leader, Oakland, CA
“Laurie creates a safe space for exploration…one that is also energized and open and willing to go with any direction or path that needs attention.”
- 55-year-old charter school board member, Santa Rosa, CA
“Laurie has a keen ear and impressive ability to unravel and untangle the myriad of thoughts, ideas and hopes and help to literally sculpt them into coherency! Plus, she always kept a sense of humor and was uplifting when I began to slip into overwhelm.”
- 50-year-old school developer and director, Sonoma County, CA
”The more you peel back the layers and interact with Laurie, the more you discover just how amazing she is.”
- 45-year-old wildlife biologist, San Mateo, CA