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Laura delivers research-backed keynotes and workshops that help leaders and organizations elevate confidence, credibility, and professional presence. As a thought leader in the Applied Psychology of Style, she has partnered with Bank of America, Energizer, and TEDx — equipping audiences with strategies that transform how they show up and how they're perceived.
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The Power of Style
Speaking Topics
A behavioral-science look at why trust, retention, and referrals now hinge on the human moments AI can't automate, and how to build that edge as deliberately as any technical skill.
Length: 45 - 60 minutes
What You’ll Learn:
• Reframe AI fluency as a relationship skill – not just a technical one
• Identify the moments where human judgment now carries more weight, not less
• Strengthen the trust-building interactions that drive client and customer loyalty
Your Human Edge in the Age of AI
Professionals at all levels learn how to strengthen credibility, protect their reputation, and show up with intention in an evolving workplace shaped by AI, organizational change, remote work, and shifting leadership norms.
Length: 60 - 90 minutes
What You’ll Learn:
• Build a personal brand that aligns genuinely with strategy
• Strengthen relationships and convey competence with clarity
• Adapt your presence to remain relevant and influential in a changing landscape
Redefining Your Personal Brand in a Changing World
A bold, research-driven redefinition of executive presence that equips leaders to regulate self-doubt, communicate with authority, and design their reputation with intention.
Length: 45 - 60 minutes
What You’ll Learn:
• Understand the roots of self-doubt and how to regulate it
• Express confidence through behavior, communication, and composure
• Build your modern framework of executive presence with intention
The Confidence Shift: Rewriting the Rules of Executive Presence
Style is more than clothing; it’s a psychological signal that shapes how you see yourself and how others perceive you. This talk equips your audience with practical tools they can use intentionally to build confidence, credibility, and impact.
Length: 60 - 90 minutes
What You’ll Learn:
• Understand the science behind style and first impressions
• Learn how to align your wardrobe with your identity, lifestyle, and goals
• Practical strategies to edit your closet and elevate your presence
The Power of Style: Why What You Wear Matters + How to Maximize Your Wardrobe
TAILORED to your niche and functionality
Every engagement is intentionally designed around your event goals and audience needs. Drawing on behavioral science, Laura tailors each keynote, workshop, or seminar to resonate with leaders, client-facing teams, and emerging talent — equipping them with strategies that elevate influence, strengthen reputation, and create meaningful, lasting impact.
ADDITIONAL talks
• The Art + Science of Confident Communication and Connection
• Command the Room (and the Zoom): Maintaining Authority Across Your Spaces
• Your Reputation in Motion: The Five-Step Blueprint to Personal Branding
• From Visibility to Credibility: Building Trust in High-Stakes Roles
• The Network Effect: Building Relationships That Move Careers and Organizations Forward
• The Confidence Paradox: Why High Performers Struggle to Own Their Authority
Looking for something more specific? All programs can be customized to your industry, audience, and objectives. Let's build yours.
AREAS of impact
• Executive presence and perception psychology
• Personal branding and professional reputation
• Confidence under pressure and nervous system regulation
• Communication style and nonverbal influence
• Leadership signaling and culture impact
• Strategic authenticity and identity evolution
• Relationship-building and recognition in the workplace
• Human skills in an AI-driven environment
• Hybrid presence: commanding in-person and virtual spaces
• Wardrobe strategy and visual credibility
Laura’s Speaking Formats
Topics rooted in the science of human behavior. Offered in-person and virtually.
Inspirational opening + closing keynotes
Engaging
breakout
sessions
Custom-designed workshops + retreats
Strategic team intensives + leadership seminars
VIP + Branded Partner Experiences
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Your Human Edge in the Age of AI
PROGRAM Overview
Organizations are treating AI adoption as more than an internal efficiency play; it's becoming part of how they show up for clients who are navigating the same shift. But as routine work gets automated, the moments that still require a human - the ones that build or break trust, retention, and referrals - carry more weight than they used to, not less.
Drawing on behavioral psychology, Laura will explore why judgment and trust function differently once the easy work is gone, and what that means for the human interactions that actually drive client and customer loyalty.
Laura offers a grounded, practical way to build that capability as deliberately as any technical one; so AI fluency and stakeholder relationships grow together, rather than one outpacing the other.
KEY Takeaways
✔ Understand why judgment and trust function differently once routine work is automated
✔ Identify the human moments, the ones that build or break trust, that now carry more weight in client and customer relationships
✔ Learn to build human capability as deliberately and strategically as any technical skill
✔ Recognize the behavioral signals that establish credibility and judgment in an AI-augmented workplace
✔ Develop an approach that grows AI fluency and stakeholder relationships in tandem, rather than one outpacing the other
REDEFINING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND In A Changing World
PROGRAM Overview
In today’s evolving landscape of in-person and remote work, advances in AI, and shifting professional norms, how we show up and read the room has never mattered more. Personal branding is no longer just about visibility; it’s about credibility, trust, engagement, and influence.
Drawing on psychological principles of perception, cognitive behavior, and connection, Laura will explore how professionals at every level can build and reassess a brand that is both intentionally true to self and strategic within the context of their workplace culture and industry.
This presentation will explore practical ways to strengthen relationships, convey competence, and adapt your genuine presence to remain relevant and impactful in a world where the rules of leadership, business, and communication are rapidly changing due to technological advancements, as well as organizational shifts and individual evolution.
KEY Takeaways
✔ Understand how perception, first impressions, and nonverbal cues shape your professional reputation – and how to manage them with intention
✔ Develop a personal brand framework that is both genuine to who you are and strategically aligned with your organizational context
✔ Learn how to adapt your presence across in-person, virtual, and hybrid environments without losing coherence or credibility
✔ Identify the signals – behavioral, aesthetic, and communicative – that either reinforce or undermine your authority and influence
✔ Build the self-awareness and strategic flexibility to remain relevant and impactful as leadership norms, technology, and workplace culture continue to evolve
The Confidence Shift: Rewriting the Rules of Executive Presence
PROGRAM Overview
Executive presence has long been defined by narrow, outdated standards – ones that often fuel imposter syndrome rather than reduce it. In this session, Laura unpacks the psychological roots of imposter feelings and reveals a more inclusive, modern approach to presence. Attendees will explore how to regulate internal doubt, express confidence through behavior and communication, and build their reputation intentionally. This talk blends evidence-based insights with actionable tools, helping professionals show up with clarity, authority, and a grounded sense of self.
KEYTakeaways
✔ Understand the psychological roots of imposter syndrome and self-doubt – why high performers are most susceptible, and how to interrupt the cycle before it undermines your performance
✔ Reframe executive presence beyond outdated, narrow definitions and build a modern framework that is inclusive, evidence-based, and genuinely your own
✔ Develop behavioral and communicative strategies to project confidence and authority even in moments of internal uncertainty
✔ Learn how reputation is built – intentionally or by default – and gain the tools to design yours with clarity and strategic purpose
✔ Leave with a personal presence awareness that integrates mindset, behavior, and communication into a grounded, sustainable approach to leadership
The Power of Style: Why What You Wear Matters + How To Maximize Your Wardrobe
PROGRAM Overview
Style is an overt expression. It's your clothing, how you adorn your body and carry yourself, your hair, beauty, and grooming habits, communicating your gender, cultural, religious, and personal beliefs. Style is at a pivot point in today's world. You can express yourself more genuinely, project a professional presence, craft your personal brand, and tell your story to others.
There is power in being your original self, ultimately aiding you in establishing a confident opinion of yourself and positively impacting your life. Laura will review the evidence behind style psychology and share practical ways to edit your closet and establish an effective wardrobe that suits you and your lifestyle.
KEYTakeaways
✔ Understand the psychology and neuroscience behind first impressions – how style functions as a nonverbal signal that shapes perception, trust, and credibility within seconds
✔ Explore how clothing affects not just how others see you, but how you think, feel, and perform – a phenomenon known as enclothed cognition – and learn how to use that relationship intentionally to build confidence from the outside in
✔ Learn how to align your wardrobe with your identity, values, and professional goals so that what you wear becomes a consistent, strategic extension of your personal brand
✔ Develop a practical framework for editing your closet – removing what no longer serves you and building an intentional wardrobe that works for your real life and aspirations
✔ Walk away with actionable tools to elevate your everyday style awareness, presence, communicate authority and authenticity, and show up with greater intention in every environment
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• The Art + Science of Confident Communication and Connection
• Command the Room (and the Zoom): Maintaining Authority Across Your Spaces
• Your Reputation in Motion: The Five-Step Blueprint to Personal Branding
• From Visibility to Credibility: Building Trust in High-Stakes Roles
• The Network Effect: Building Relationships That Move Careers and Organizations Forward
• The Confidence Paradox: Why High Performers Struggle to Own Their Authority
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