About Lauren
Drawing on experience as a community engagement strategist, dialogue facilitator, qualitative researcher, trial attorney, and single mom of two teenagers, Lauren emphasizes connection and relationship-building — both online and offline — as a crucial foundation for growth and change.
In addition to being an accomplished speaker, author and strategist, Lauren is the author of Digital Kindness: Being Human in a hyper-connected world (2019), The Professional Woman’s Guide to Getting Promoted (2015) and The Manager’s Guide to Presentations (2014). Lauren earned an LL.M. with merit from the University of London, a J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from the University of Texas. She is also a licensed attorney, certified mediator and Icehouse Training facilitator.
We intuitively make room for the experiences and perspectives of others when we truly witness our fellow humans.
In her writing, speaking, and consulting, Lauren explores the many ways digital connection can expand empathy for our fellow human beings, help shed fear and prejudice, and open us up to co-creating a world where everyone has a voice and is treated with dignity and respect.
To move forward together in this diverse, complex, interdependent world, we have to consciously look for the things that unite us rather than divide us — the things that uplift us rather than anger us. The ongoing ugliness in both the online and offline worlds leaves many of us longing for welcoming social media spaces where we can interact with fellow humans in positive, authentic, mutually beneficial ways.
Lauren believes we — individually and collectively — have the power to transform digital spaces into places where all humans flourish and thrive. Her books, Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World and its sequel Digital Grace: Pouring Benevolence into an Outraged World, provide practical tips for fostering positive interactions in online spaces.
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