Laura Berman Fortgang
One of America's foremost life and career coaches, Laura Berman Fortgang is a popular speaker sought for her uniquely inspiring and down-to-earth approach to creating a deeply satisfying life, both personally and professionally.
Author of "Living Your Best Life" and the bestselling "Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach," Fortgang is the founder and president of LBF InterCoach, Inc., her own coaching company. Through her efforts, she has introduced the magic of coaching to diverse audiences from homemakers to celebrities, Fortune 500 executives to home-based entrepreneurs, and even to NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers.
One of the nation's first coaches to achieve the Master Coach Credential, Fortgang has been influential in shaping this relatively new profession as a founding board member and international liaison of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has volunteered her coaching skills to the American Women's Economic Development Corporation and her WINGS scholarship program provides special opportunities for people in transition to receive much needed support to realize their dreams.
A sought-after speaker and popular media resource, Fortgang has been featured by "Oprah," "Weekend Today Show," CNN, MSNBC, "The Wall Street Journal," "USA Today," "Fast Company," "Money," "Entrepreneur," "Executive Female," "Working Woman," "Glamour," and "Good Housekeeping," among others. She was also the resident work/life coach for Women.com, where her weekly column and work/life makeover were seen by over 5 million visitors each month.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Laura is a dynamic speaker. Her humor and interactive approach always delight. She is culturally sensitive, concrete in her suggestions, and never, ever boring. All talks are customized to your needs and are also available as extended training in half-day, full-day or two-day formats. Keynotes are 45-75 minutes.
Now What? Forging New Directions In Good Times and Not-So-Good Times
Change is a given. The question then becomes how do we become more proactive in the
face of change instead of reacting to circumstances as they present themselves? This keynote will help your audience discover the fine points of dealing with change so new horizons can be determined. Resistance, fear, blocking innovation and lack of clarity can all be overcome. Creativity, answers, clarity, and the path to a bright, concrete, future can be attained. Let Laura show you the ins and outs and prepare you for the unpredictable.
Living Your Best Life
Life is too short and precious to not be living the best one you can. This interactive,high-energy presentation is for the businessperson and the domestic goddess audience alike. Filled with practical insights and tips, this talk will inspire you to settle for more! Get in touch with what really matters to you and design a life that is realistic,doable, and still beyond your wildest dreams.
Excavating Your Blueprint To Success
You and your team probably already know how to set goals, but what about accessing the
surefire path to success? In this presentation, Laura ushers you through the three stages of excavating the blueprint that will determine your easiest, least stressful road to what you most want to accomplish. Learn new skills that make you more aware of possibilities that create results and that challenge conventional wisdom about achievement.
Wired For Wisdom
As emotional intelligence and other personal traits become as important as technical
knowledge, the business manager or executive needs leading edge technology to support
their growth. Skills for being a wise leader become crucial and this presentation
will address acquiring them. Clearer thought, sharper comprehension, improved
communication, tighter strategy and faster, more efficient results are the outcome.
Take Yourself To The Top
Achieve success from the inside out by answering the three questions that will change your career and life forever. Whether you apply the questions to life or business does not matter ... all that matters is that you let this presentation catapult you to take the action that will make the difference once and for all.
Designing Work to Fit Your Life
Is work/life balance really possible? Well, it is if you are clear on what you want. Let
this presentation help you gain four practical steps to being more productive and
creative at work, as well creating the quality of life you are working to achieve.
Coaching For High Impact Results
This presentation will introduce coaching skills as an essential tool for maximizing human capital. It will help participants distinguish how coaching may be different from their current management style and build a strong case for adapting to this trend.
Harnessing Universal Wisdom to Reach Your Goals
Focusing on universal truth culled from many of the world's religious traditions, Laura points out empowering, time-tested ways to reach one's business and personal goals. Based on her studies as an Interfaith Minister, she draws on ancient traditions to help even the most skeptical achievers create greater results in less time. Benefits of this presentation include: open-minded thinking, greater creativity, reduced stress, and a feeling of well-being. (No dogma and no religious agenda of any kind are part of this presentation.)
One of America's foremost life and career coaches, Laura Berman Fortgang is a popular speaker sought for her uniquely inspiring and down-to-earth approach to creating a deeply satisfying life, both personally and professionally.
Author of "Living Your Best Life" and the bestselling "Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach," Fortgang is the founder and president of LBF InterCoach, Inc., her own coaching company. Through her efforts, she has introduced the magic of coaching to diverse audiences from homemakers to celebrities, Fortune 500 executives to home-based entrepreneurs, and even to NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers.
One of the nation's first coaches to achieve the Master Coach Credential, Fortgang has been influential in shaping this relatively new profession as a founding board member and international liaison of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She has volunteered her coaching skills to the American Women's Economic Development Corporation and her WINGS scholarship program provides special opportunities for people in transition to receive much needed support to realize their dreams.
A sought-after speaker and popular media resource, Fortgang has been featured by "Oprah," "Weekend Today Show," CNN, MSNBC, "The Wall Street Journal," "USA Today," "Fast Company," "Money," "Entrepreneur," "Executive Female," "Working Woman," "Glamour," and "Good Housekeeping," among others. She was also the resident work/life coach for Women.com, where her weekly column and work/life makeover were seen by over 5 million visitors each month.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Laura is a dynamic speaker. Her humor and interactive approach always delight. She is culturally sensitive, concrete in her suggestions, and never, ever boring. All talks are customized to your needs and are also available as extended training in half-day, full-day or two-day formats. Keynotes are 45-75 minutes.
Now What? Forging New Directions In Good Times and Not-So-Good Times
Change is a given. The question then becomes how do we become more proactive in the
face of change instead of reacting to circumstances as they present themselves? This keynote will help your audience discover the fine points of dealing with change so new horizons can be determined. Resistance, fear, blocking innovation and lack of clarity can all be overcome. Creativity, answers, clarity, and the path to a bright, concrete, future can be attained. Let Laura show you the ins and outs and prepare you for the unpredictable.
Living Your Best Life
Life is too short and precious to not be living the best one you can. This interactive,high-energy presentation is for the businessperson and the domestic goddess audience alike. Filled with practical insights and tips, this talk will inspire you to settle for more! Get in touch with what really matters to you and design a life that is realistic,doable, and still beyond your wildest dreams.
Excavating Your Blueprint To Success
You and your team probably already know how to set goals, but what about accessing the
surefire path to success? In this presentation, Laura ushers you through the three stages of excavating the blueprint that will determine your easiest, least stressful road to what you most want to accomplish. Learn new skills that make you more aware of possibilities that create results and that challenge conventional wisdom about achievement.
Wired For Wisdom
As emotional intelligence and other personal traits become as important as technical
knowledge, the business manager or executive needs leading edge technology to support
their growth. Skills for being a wise leader become crucial and this presentation
will address acquiring them. Clearer thought, sharper comprehension, improved
communication, tighter strategy and faster, more efficient results are the outcome.
Take Yourself To The Top
Achieve success from the inside out by answering the three questions that will change your career and life forever. Whether you apply the questions to life or business does not matter ... all that matters is that you let this presentation catapult you to take the action that will make the difference once and for all.
Designing Work to Fit Your Life
Is work/life balance really possible? Well, it is if you are clear on what you want. Let
this presentation help you gain four practical steps to being more productive and
creative at work, as well creating the quality of life you are working to achieve.
Coaching For High Impact Results
This presentation will introduce coaching skills as an essential tool for maximizing human capital. It will help participants distinguish how coaching may be different from their current management style and build a strong case for adapting to this trend.
Harnessing Universal Wisdom to Reach Your Goals
Focusing on universal truth culled from many of the world's religious traditions, Laura points out empowering, time-tested ways to reach one's business and personal goals. Based on her studies as an Interfaith Minister, she draws on ancient traditions to help even the most skeptical achievers create greater results in less time. Benefits of this presentation include: open-minded thinking, greater creativity, reduced stress, and a feeling of well-being. (No dogma and no religious agenda of any kind are part of this presentation.)
