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Laura Close Seattle Career Coaching, Executive Coaching, Business Consulting

Let the Chips Fall Where They May

You might feel like I'm lying to you, and that you don't have a creative bone left in your body. Creativity is for 20...

  • 24 Jan 2018
Laura Close Consulting Career Coaching Business Consulting Seattle Washington

Soft Power Strategies for Professionals

Apparently it’s hard for me to talk about soft power strategies for professionals without sounding like a total jerk. Let's dive in.

  • 29 Nov 2017
Laura Close Leadership Development Career Coach Business Coach Seattle

First Generation Swagger

Some of you already know I love working with immigrants. Fresh off the boat, first generation in the States, I’ll take it all.

  • 1 Nov 2017
Laura Close Consulting Seattle, Career Coaching and Business Coaching

I Like Your Odds

For new clients there can be a fear that once I learn about your weak spot I’ll say: “Oh I see. Well in that...

  • 26 Oct 2017
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
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