Lauren Powers has over 25 years of experience as a renowned executive coach, educator, and change consultant. All over the world, she offers programs in leadership development, team collaboration, and mindset growth. She specializes in powerful, practical, and playful approaches to foster both individual and team growth. Her clients range from big tech and finance firms to small nonprofits, government agencies, and entrepreneurs. From early childhood, Lauren has been on a quest to understand how humans think, communicate, and make decisions. That fascination led her to earn three undergraduate degrees and a master's from her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, but she didn't stop there. Since 1998 Lauren has been on faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and leads the curriculum for training people to become professional coaches. She then went on to become a Master Certified Coach, a designation only 4% of all accredited coaches have achieved.For Lauren, identifying interpretations, assumptions, and unconscious beliefs are where true transformation begins. Her first book, The Trouble with Thinking, explores how our perceptions create our realities and, once that awareness is gained, how we can shift to create new possibilities.Lauren's bestselling Udemy course on Active Listening has reached a global audience of over 50,000 students and inspired her to write her new book. In How to Listen Out Loud, she offers a playful approach to improving listening skills and invites readers to discover how intriguing our fellow humans truly are.Please visit HowToListenOutLoud.com to learn more or connect with Lauren.