Mindful Communications: Build Better Relationships and Improve Your Personal and Professional Life! Paperback - 2017

Laura Thompson, MA, ACC, CPC, ELI-MP, Author Known by many as an international "go-to" Certified Executive Coach and Life Empowerment Coach, Laura Thompson's motto is "Design and Lead the Life You Desire." She works worldwide with individuals, entrepreneurs, mid-level managers to executives, transforming their challenges into opportunities to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Her coaching expertise revolves around personal and professional development, blending personal passions with professional pursuits, transitions, story-telling/narrative design coaching, mindful communications through self-awareness and effective listening skills, emotional and social intelligence, goal setting and strategic planning, and people management. Prior to coaching, Laura's career started out in finance in the United States and Europe. After consultation with a career coach in Geneva, Switzerland, she made a career transition to marketing communications at one of the world's largest communications firms, WPP: Advertising, Branding, Public Relations, and Digital Marketing in New York City. This experience gave her the foundation to launch her own Global Media Ventures company, Loralia LLC. For over two decades, Laura has worked across industries from startups to the Fortune 100 in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, India, and Asia. Laura has served on many different nonprofit boards in the arts, education, and media sectors. Laura is also an Author, Poet, Playwright, Freelance Journalist, Blogger, and Contributor to The Huffington Post. She earned a Master's degree in International Relations and International Political Economy from Boston University in Paris, France, studied at INSEAD, and is bilingual, English and French. Laura has traveled extensively and considers herself a world citizen.