is an Organizational Development Strategist, Consultant, and Global DEI/intercultural communication facilitator. She works with organizations across the U.S. and abroad to promote better understanding, collaboration, and leadership across differences so that more people experience belonging and success in the workplace and beyond.
Lauren brings 15 years of experience in the fields of Organizational Development and Intercultural Communication as an adult-learning designer and facilitator, organizational development consultant, learning and development manager, and intercultural leadership educator. Prior to starting her business, she served as the Director of the Center for Global Competence Education with AFS International, and as Assistant Director of the Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership at U.C. Berkeley’s International House, where her leadership, in partnership with Jason’s, helped grow the social enterprise into a premier intercultural and global DEI training and consulting organization, designing and facilitating custom intercultural leadership programs across industries and sectors for U.S. and global customers.
She has lived, worked, and led teams across the U.S. and abroad: primarily in Spain where she lived for four years, and gained fluency in the Spanish language; and also in Lebanon (one of her heritage countries) where she gained conversational Arabic skills, Morocco, Costa Rica, and the Netherlands.
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Lauren was awarded her M.A. in International Communications from the School of International Service at American University in Washington D.C., and a B.A. in Organizational Development and Spanish from the University of Michigan.
