Hey, I'm Lauren.

I help ambitious humans build lives and careers that feel like theirs. Lives that light the fire inside instead of slowly putting it out.

I spent almost two decades inside high-growth tech companies, leading teams from Series B to IPO. I know the particular exhaustion of being very good at a life you aren't sure you want, because for most of those years, that was me.

I contorted myself to fit a tech career I thought I wanted, telling myself the next promotion, the next title, the next headcount would settle the squeaky wheel inside that kept saying this isn't it.

It would, for a moment. Then I'd be back to the same question: what am I actually here to do?

Eventually I got so fed up with asking, I sprinted. I tried everything I'd ever daydreamed about. I became a consultant, a podcast host, a coach, a facilitator, an event producer. All at once. Fiending for purpose, throwing myself at anything that might finally stick, and mostly just making it worse.

So I looked for help. I worked with therapists. Hired coaches. Joined group programs. Did plant medicine. Increasingly desperate for someone to hand me the answer.

No one did. (Of course.)

What I found instead was a better question.

Not what is my purpose? But what lights me up?

That question rearranged everything. It's the one I keep returning to in my own life, and the one underneath all of my work.

Now I work with people who are in that same strange middle:

People who have built lives they should feel grateful for, but can't shake the feeling that something is off.

People who are too responsible to blow their life up, but too honest to keep pretending everything is fine.

People who are exhausted from trying to optimize themselves into alignment.

My work isn't about giving you a five-step plan for reinventing your life. It's about helping you stop asking "what will make me seem impressive?" and start asking "who am I when no one's looking?" I sit with people in the moments where something has to change, even if they can't yet name what that change is. I ask the questions that reconnect them to themselves. I notice the thing underneath the thing. I help them build a more sustainable relationship with joy, purpose, work, ambition, and being human.

If any of that resonates and you're ready for change, let's talk.

Want to read along while you figure things out? I also write a Substack called The Joy Ride. Subscribe and come along for the ride.