Lauren’s passion is helping organizations that want to build their next generation of leaders. Whether it’s training, keynotes or longer-term consulting partnerships, she uses her Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership to help transform the way managers think, make decisions and act toward the people they lead.
Organizations bring Lauren on because she brings a fresh new perspective and a street-smart approach to what works and what doesn’t. She helps speed transformation in three critical areas: knowledge, skills, and relationships. Lauren provides your people with what they need to know to be better leaders. She helps them develop the skills that are critical to their success and their influence. And, she shows them ways to build stronger relationships with the people they serve and lead.
As a result, your people will be more focused on what matters every day. They’ll lead with compassion and integrity, and they’ll create and model standards of excellence that others will aspire to, and follow – all centered behind a common goal and vision. That’s what SIGNIFICANT leadership is.
Anyone can be successful. You want your people to be significant.
Organizations and associations who hire The Colonel’s Daughter find the bottom-line results of stronger productivity, market share, customer service, employee engagement, retention, and profitability all snap into place when they focus on Lauren’s Nine Essentials of Significant Leadership.
As the daughter of a career Air Force officer, Lauren Schieffer grew up being uprooted and relocated every couple of years. This imbued her with profound independence and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. The lessons she learned from “The Colonel” have helped her make smart decisions and overcome adversity with humility and a sense of humor.
Lauren has navigated just about every aspect of corporate America in her varied career – from trucking to achieving top-tier Sales Director status for a global cosmetics firm to managing a non-profit foundation. Since stepping away from corporate America to work for herself, she has spoken in seven countries to associations, organizations, federal, state, and local governments, as well as Fortune 500 companies – helping them improve the effectiveness of their communication and reduce unnecessary conflict.
Lauded as “both inspiring and refreshing with leadership lessons that encourage and challenge the reader to become a better leader,” her book series, Colonels of Wisdom, has been listed as a top 10 for corporate gift-giving by Lifestyles magazine.
Able to relate to and energize everyone from the custodial staff to C-Level executives, Lauren Schieffer is a master storyteller, delivering inspirational and relevant content that empowers people to absorb and act upon what they’ve heard, and she does so in an entertaining manner with a dry sense of humor that keeps them chuckling while they’re learning.
She also makes sure to have some fun along the way – because if you can’t have a little fun along the road, why travel it at all?