Laurie Coe (Partner)

Laurie is an outstanding facilitator in team building, executive coaching, and management/leadership development. She is known for ensuring her clients are implementing the right strategies to meet their goals. She has worked with a diverse portfolio of clients, including:

Align Technology Apple Applied Biosystems Bayer Pharmaceuticals BioMarin Pharmaceutical Cisco Systems Dolby

Genentech Google Hewlett Packard Johnson and Johnson Novartis Oracle Pfizer

Roche Sirius Satellite Sony Pictures Entertainment Suncor Canada Sun Microsystems 2Wire Wachovia Bank

Much of her work and passion has been with leaders and their teams. Laurie is able to see what stands in the way of their success in ways that they often cannot. Her facilitation approach revitalizes teams by maximizing their existing resources and removing obstacles, enabling them to powerfully deliver business-critical results.

Laurie gains the trust of people quickly. She is not afraid to call people on behaviors that get in the way of their success. She is practical and has a sense of humor. She draws out the best in everyone.

Laurie’s extensive executive management experience in sales, customer service and human resources gives her the critical ability to understand her client’s needs and determine the most significant business outcomes to achieve in their work together.

EXPERIENCE

Prior to starting her own consulting practice, Laurie worked at LifeScan, a Johnson and Johnson company. For twelve years she led teams that designed and implemented employee, organizational, leadership and sales development programs. One of her accomplishments was leading a team that created the vision, plans and execution strategy for a new Telesales department.This was the first of its kind in the blood glucose monitoring industry and resulted in over ten million dollars in sales its first year. Prior to LifeScan, she was with US Sprint, training and developing their US sales force during a period of great change in telecommunications.

Laurie has done extensive pro-bono work within the California public school system, bringing her expertise in transformational leadership to several schools, administrations and the foundations supporting them. Partnering with Denise Clark Pope from Stanford University’s School of Education, they examined the effects of stress on today’s children and ways to improve health, school engagement and academic integrity. Governor Schwarzenegger, in recognizing outstanding performance, awarded The California Distinguished School Award to two of the schools in 2007 and 2008.