About Laura

HELPING SUCCESSFUL LEADERS REACH
THEIR FULL POTENTIAL

 

Laura Gates, Founder, Gates Group LLC

Laura Gates is a sought-after executive coach (MSOL, ICF PCC, EMCC), team facilitator and advisor to executives at Silicon Valley’s top tech companies, including Google and LinkedIn, as well as advisor and mentor to VC-backed start-up Founders in tech, bio-tech and blockchain. With over 25 years of coaching and facilitation experience primarily in tech, engineering, AI and machine learning, Laura’s prestigious client roster bridges industries and domains including space and aeronautics (NASA, University of Central Florida’s Florida Space Institute and Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico), NAVAIR (the aviation division of the Navy), academia (Stanford University, Darden) energy (Shell Oil, BP) finance and communications (Visa, M+T Bank, Capital One, LexisNexis, AT+T) government (DOD, the Pentagon, DOE, FAA) GOCO (National Laboratories —Sandia, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore), global corporations (Mahindra BT, Quaker Chemical), prisons, homeless organizations, global women’s initiatives.

Laura’s proprietary frameworks for building innovative teams and cultures to increase trust and collaboration and breakthroughs in navigating conflict has been featured in First Round’s Review. Culture Amp has featured her as a top executive coach and she’s been invited to speak in front of audiences around the globe on becoming a purposeful leader, including VISA Return to Work, American Women in Science and University of North Texas Conference on Work Teams and the WIN Conference in Prague and in Rome. 

An ICF PCC certified coach, EMCC certified in Europe and currently preparing for ICF MCC certification, Laura is also a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered coach and certified team coach. She has been trained in Korn Ferry 360 feedback delivery and familiar working with tools and assessments such as EQ360, MBTI, DiSC and Birkman. She is skilled at collecting, analyzing and delivering impactful qualitative 360 feedback assessments.

Laura is passionate about leading with purpose and harnessing our collective genius to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Laura is committed to diversity and inclusion and continues her education including Whiteness at Work, White Fragility and other programs. Laura started her career as a Wall Street banker at Citibank, has successfully built two companies of her own and helped build and scale the US operation of a French leadership training and consulting company.

Laura is a lifelong learner, a graduate of the inaugural ICF Global Team Coaching training with David Clutterbuck and Peter Hawkins through the World Business Executive Coaching Summit (WBECS), certified in Foundations in Coaching with Google’s David Peterson (WBECS) and is a practicum facilitator and coach for Marcia Reynolds WBECS Breakthrough Coaching program. Through Coaches Rising Laura has studied Neuroscience in Coaching, Adult Learning Theory as well as David Allen’s Getting Things Done, Crucial Conversations, The Energy Project, Nonviolent Communications and Rational Behavior Therapy. 

Laura works with clients cross-culturally. She currently has clients in Europe and the UK and has worked with clients in EMEA, APAC and LATAM. She has lived in London and Montevideo, Uruguay. She has traveled the globe extensively. She helps clients integrate into the US culture and has worked with US based clients from the Netherlands, India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, the UK, Israeli and Germany among many other countries. She is fluent in Spanish and has working knowledge of French.

Laura will receive her Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership from the University of Redlands in Spring 2021. She has a B.S. in Business from Syracuse University’s School of Management and Entrepreneurship from the San Francisco Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center. 

Laura has written for The Good Men Project, contributed to “A Lesson in Giving,” Stone Soup for the World, Conari Press, authored a bi-weekly “Biz Shrink” column for Women’s Wire, and articles in Natural Solutions Magazine, City Woman Magazine, Winning Strategies Magazine, the San Jose Business Journal, Sacramento Business Journal, The National Law Journal, and Marketing for Lawyers. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Laurence and their rescue dog, Goldie.

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