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Laura Daley

Senior Executive Coach
Goodstone Group LLC
Philadelphia, PA
Email: la*********@***il.com
Phone: 703.628.3625

Education and Professional Affiliations
  • Certified Executive Coach, Hudson Institute of Coaching
  • Certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • MBA, The Anderson School at UCLA
  • BA, Cornell University

Professional Experience

Laura brings proven expertise in executive coaching, team effectiveness, and strategy implementation to her coaching clients. With more than 20 years of experience, she honed her business acumen while operating as a consultant and manager across a breadth of industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, professional services, private equity, media, and consumer goods.

Laura has coached senior and high potential leaders in a variety of business settings, including start-ups, multi-divisional corporations and global non-profits. Direct and empathetic, Laura combines practical business perspective with an appreciation for the challenges leaders face as they develop new ways of working and thinking. She provides clients with actionable steps to make real, enduring, positive change.

Often Laura works with clients facing subjective and ambiguous feedback like “have more gravitas” or “be more strategic”. She helps clients to understand feedback in concrete and actionable terms; develop goals and a plan of action; and work through a process of practice, reflection and learning to achieve the goals. Laura takes a ‘whole person’ approach to coaching; when needed she helps leaders address stress management, time management and other wellness issues that contribute to the client reaching his or her goals.

Prior to her work as a leadership coach and consultant, Laura was a Vice President at Spencer Stuart, a leading global executive search firm. Her early career history includes consulting for Katzenbach Partners, Scient, Gemini Consulting and American Management Systems. She also helped create one of the premiere coaching firms, Goodstone Group. It was at Goodstone in 2005 that she identified and began pursuing her passion for talent management and development. She has worked with clients in over 20 countries.

Laura earned her MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and her BA with distinction from Cornell University. She continues her education by learning from her clients, husband, daughter and dog. She also likes to travel to experience new things and pursues invigorating workouts and healthful meals at home and away

Recent Coaching Assignments

  • SVP at a large media company to assess and strengthen her executive presence in the context of a new role transition
  • VP at an information services firm to build more collaborative relationships and grow her strategic voice
  • Director at an electronics company to become less execution-oriented and more strategic and influential with a broader set of stakeholders, as she steps into a newly created role
  • AVP at a multi-billion-dollar financial services company to build better relationships across the organization in order to provide more meaningful analytics to mission-critical decisions
  • Principal at a private equity firm to refine his communication skills and colleague interactions in preparation for MD nomination
  • Senior Director of training in a large pharma company to develop more collaborative relationships with senior leaders
  • Senior Director at a global pharma company to amplify her strategic voice and improve team management

Career History

Independent Consultant (2013 to Present)
Laura’s consulting practice is focused on one-on-one executive coaching, leadership & talent development consulting and training, and executive assessment.

Spencer Stuart International (2008-2013)
Vice President, Professional Development
Laura led global firm initiatives to assess, design and deliver learning to seasoned executives-turned search consultants, particularly in the areas of business development, executive presence, personal effectiveness and executing search. Additionally, she remotely managed the Americas Professional Development team.

Goodstone Group (2005-2008)
Principal
Established the executive coaching and leadership development start-up of Katzenbach Partners. With the Managing Principal, developed the business model, managed the coach network, and designed leadership development solutions for clients. During her time there, the business grew from $0 to $3.5M in annual revenue.

Katzenbach Partners LLC (now Booz & Co) (2002-2005)
Engagement Manager
Provided strategy, implementation and change management expertise to senior leaders facing complex organizational challenges in the areas of leadership and team development, marketing strategy and sales force effectiveness. Clients included Unilever, BNSF, Pfizer.

Scient Corporation (now SBI Group) (1999-2002)
Director
Developed Internet-based business solutions for large financial services companies (Wells Fargo, CIBC) and start-up clients. Led teams and developed colleagues.

Gemini Consulting (now Cap Gemini) (1997-1999)
Senior Consultant
Provided strategy and operations solutions to clients in Europe and the U.S., such as Elf Atochem and Prudential’s Egg Bank.

American Management Systems (now CGI) (1992-1995)
Project Manager
Managed budgets, project plans, clients and team members to deliver on-time systems solutions.