TESTIMONIALS

COACHING . TRAINING . SPEAKING . DISC

My goal is to help you move easily from your blind-spots to your brave-zones, build strong relationships and teams, and be a leader worthy of following.

a few words from people I have coached, interacted with, and led ...

As a certified Leadership Coach, certified Maxwell DISC Leadership, Communication and Sales style coach, and certified Somatic EMDR (trauma-informed) practitioner, my focus is to assist clients in understanding their inherent styles, patterns they revert to in times of stress, their strengths and growth-gaps.

Testimonials - Coaching

“I very much appreciate the impact Lav has on my development as an executive. Lav helped me introduce conversational frameworks around topics most of us are not prepared or trained to lead. Lav’s strategic approach to D&I helped us navigate discussions towards a more purposeful and felt outcome. Thank you, Lav.”

Vlad Cret, VP Data

“Lav has been great at helping me with strategic thinking as I grow as a leader. She provides perspective that informs my decisions, helps me think through tricky decisions, and helps me learn how to better lead. Can't recommended her enough.”

Andrew Madsen, Director

“Lav has been a terrific coach that has helped me crystallize what kind of manager I want to be. She's been great at giving direct and insightful feedback and actively supported me in coming up with goals to strive towards. I appreciated being coached by her and learned how to be a better professional”

Alena Dagneau, Head of Engineering

"Lav, I didn't have a chance to express my gratitude to you today. As soon as we hung up, I went to my calendar and "booked" my Fridays for me! I learned from you today that while we all have techniques we can learn, the most important skill is bringing our natural selves to the coaching session and you did that for me. You listened in a way that made me feel taken care of and you worked to offer me a new way of thinking about my life. You got me out of my own head on the issue and helped me see it more clearly. For that I thank you and I look forward to working with you more."

Cary Grace Kelly, Founder

"Lav has that great balance between the objective and the empathetic. Her passion for the subject matter seems to come from a great desire to align individuals in careers which reflect their abilities and skills. She understands how one can demystify certain aspects of personality in relation to work. I have found Lav to be a true professional. She dedicates the time and effort to get the correct result. At the same time, she keeps trying to expand her own understanding and experience."

Manish Jha, VP, Business Development

“Lav helped me see how an attitude of curiosity can help me work through disagreement and difficult conversations. She introduced two powerful shifts in perspective. I have begun approaching uncomfortable situations with curiosity, becoming less focused on getting "credit" for good ideas and work and more on my long-term impact.”

Maurice Flanagan, Lead Architect

“Lav helped me manage a high amount of stress as a result of an overwhelming workload. I feel significantly more effective!”

Benita Volkmann, Director of Engineering

“Lav is a very good listener. She dove right in to understand what my goals were on a granular level with specific scenarios and provided valuable feedback.”

Dennis Yoo, Direct of Sales

“Lav was incredibly good at finding my hidden weaknesses as a leader and worked with me to develop a multi-session plan to actively address my challenges. Not only was she an incredible listener and empathetic, her no non-sense was directly actionable. The result is, I leave every session a better people leader and more confident in my abilities to improve.”

Lei Gong, Director of Product Management

“Getting the results from the 360 assessment was a difficult experience that Lav coached me through with intelligence, humor, and compassion.”

Stephanie Jones, Lead Scientist

“It has been a pleasure working with you. I appreciate being a sounding board and helping to condense complicated scenarios into actions.”

Ross Finman, Chief Strategy Officer

“Lav has helped me work towards articulating a vision and creating well defined strategy to be well on my way to achieving my vision! She is direct, articulate, and helpful in understanding my pain points.”

Mary Condit, Director, Community & Student Success

“Lav consulted with MIT CISR to help our team design and deliver online events. She is a real professional: patient, intuitive and execution-oriented. I was very impressed by her emotional intelligence and ability to build consensus.”

Leslie Owens, Executive Director

"Lav has been a great resource these past few months helping me with time management and coaching me through a difficult transition time at work. Good and patient listener!”

Sean McNulty, Education Sales Manager

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Testimonials - DISC

“I didn’t realize how much clarity I was missing about how I lead, communicate, and respond under stress—until you went through the DISC assessment with me. The way you broke down each trait, and related it to my daily life made a huge difference. I left the session not only understanding myself better but I identified areas of my life I could improve in. Thank you so much for taking the time to invest in my growth.

Thomas Curtis

“I have had my personality assessment done in the past, and I was already quite familiar with it. I believed I understood my personality pretty well and was not sure what else I could learn. Nevertheless, the way Lav explained it all, I realized things about myself that I had never thought about before. She helped me gain a lot deeper insight into understanding myself better, and even more so, how to improve my communication with others. The session was absolutely worth it, and I look forward to working with her even more.

Said Eshaghi, Ph.D

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Testimonials - Speaking & Training

"Lav, thank you so much for presenting at our Acxiom WomenLEAD event. The feedback has been extremely positive! I am glad we connected and hope we continue to engage!"

Janet Cifno, CIO

“Dear Lav, Thank you so much for your fantastic presentation to our membership. Our members experienced some “ah-ha” moments at Discovery Day and that’s due in large part to you carefully considered remarks. Thank you so much.”

Christina Gorczynski, , Executive Director

“Beginning of 2019, of all things I was contemplating, Personal Vision was one of them. I attended Lav's 'Crafting Your Personal Vision' workshop. I thoroughly enjoyed the class as it was both experiential as well as hands-on learning. Lav did an amazing job between vision and mission statements. Least did I know that I would be applying the same principles to craft my company's vision and mission statement.. Thank you so much, Lav!"

Savitha Bilgikar, COO

"Lav, I wanted to reach out to thank you for sharing your time and wisdom with us. I'm so sad that I couldn't be there to experience it first-hand, but the team reported back that you were spectacular.”

RM Harrison

“Thank you so much for presenting at our Acxiom WomenLEAD event. The feedback has been extremely positive! I am so glad we connected through the WomenWhoTechAreDangerous project and hope we continue to engage.”

Janet Cinfio

“Dear Lav, You did such an incredible job with your presentation. I've heard this feedback from members too! And I want you to know that we've had many people make the updates based your call to action - thank you!"