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Laura Close Seattle Women's Leadership Development, Career Coaching, Business Coaching

Change and the 4 Types of Fear During Upheaval

On any given month one of the local behemoths --Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft has a director or manager in my office bracing for their ReOrg....

  • 12 Oct 2017
Laura Close Leadership Development Seattle Career Coaching Business Coaching

In Defense of Single Tasking

Endless multitasking, I would suggest, is a behavior ultimately rooted in anxiety. It lands in the body at the same vibration as fear.

  • 5 Oct 2017
Laura Close Leadership Development, Career and Business Coaching Seattle Washington

The Future of Work

Work no longer requires you to serve one master employer, work no longer even requires you to be rigorously tested in every aspect of...

  • 28 Sep 2017
Laura Close Seattle Women's Leadership Development, Career and Business Consulting

Why Wasn’t I Promoted? It’s Either You or it’s Them

If you were not promoted when you believe you should have been, the investigation is two fold: A) Is it you? or...

  • 21 Sep 2017
Laura Close Leadership Development, Career and Business Consulting in Seattle Washington

Scrappy Women

With my scrappy, driven clients one part of our work together is assessing when to bring the fight (and how to begin with diplomacy)...

  • 14 Sep 2017
Adult's Role Laura Close Consulting executive coach leadership advice

You are the Adult

Women who found, lead in public, and gain real power risk backlash for daring to take on their full range of adult power.

  • 3 Aug 2017

Breaking The Service Addiction

Structural sexism teaches that women are most valued, most prized when we are serving others. In the absence of leadership development for girls and...

  • 7 Jul 2017
Perfectionism

No Such Thing as Perfectionism

Here's the big idea: There's no such thing as perfectionism. How can it be a character trait when almost every woman claims to have...

  • 7 Jul 2017
Difficult conversations with direct reports Laura Close Consulting Career Consultant

Having Difficult Conversations with Direct Reports

A difficult conversation with your direct report is ultimately a spiritual challenge, so my clients really love the concept of "bearing witness".

  • 17 May 2017
Laura Close Consulting on Hard Conversations: Keeping healthy boundaries with your Director

Keeping Healthy Boundaries with your Senior Leadership

I’ve seen brilliant, high achievers lose the ability to articulate their value after an extended time under a senior leadership who doesn’t have healthy...

  • 27 Apr 2017
Laura Close Consulting on Career Coaching for Pay Raises

Your Mixed Class Background

To build out your real-time strategy for promotions, pay raises, and professional exposure, we need to locate you in the chain of your family...

  • 11 Apr 2017
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