Laura is an executive coach and Senior Advisor at CLA, where she empowers purpose driven leaders to build exceptional teams.  She joined CLA’s Faculty after a successful 15 year career at Genentech where she held multiple leadership roles in Global and US Marketing and Transformation Coaching. Laura’s reputation for success with people and strategy made her a sought-after founding member of a team of Transformation Coaches tasked with driving significant organizational change across 4,000 people at Genentech. Her coaching efforts resulted in a redesigned, more customer centric field organization and helped teams embed effective work practices that permeated throughout the organization. This hands-on involvement provided her with profound insights into the pivotal connection between exceptional leadership, team dynamics, and tangible business outcomes.

Laura earned her MBA from Duke in Health Sector Management where she proudly served as a Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) Leadership Fellow. Her ability to listen deeply, think analytically and identify system and team level barriers helps her solve complex problems and increase organizational performance and impact.