Laura Barker

For over two decades, Laura Barker has worked with business leaders, as a senior human resources professional, a career coach, and as a project manager. With her guidance, executives and teams have become more aligned internally, cross-functionally, and externally, resulting in higher-performing businesses that align mission with values.

Through her work, Laura discovered a talent in transforming rigid cultures steeped in compliance and conformance into fluid ones that respond with ease to the huge workplace disruptions happening today.

The key is connection. Through connection to the inner self and the larger community, people can get out of problem mode, the default status in HR as well as in many of the people she coaches in her private practice, and embrace solution mode.

As an author, Laura has focused on supporting Gen Z in the workplace. She wrote her book, Career Advice: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 24, to help them figure out what they're meant to do, focus on the soft skills they need right now, and show them what thriving at work - and life - looks like. Then, she put it all together with a leadership game-plan showing Gen Zs how to create their vision.

Laura has worked in multiple industries of different size and scope, from local to national to international. She applies her varied background to guide individual transformation so that people live a life fully loved with clarity, maximum impact, and personal growth. On a macro level, this means addressing systemic challenges in HR to make it more about “humans” and less about seeing people as “resources.”