Stop fixing people.
It’s the water — not the fish.
“Laura’s work advanced our company culture by two years.”
Crockett Dale
CEO, Healthstat
Clients
Hi, I’m
Laura.
At age 8, I did my first aerial. I’ve been turning things upside down ever since.
From Division I gymnast at Stanford to urban public high school teacher to working with 500+ organizations, I’ve helped 50,000+ leaders build teams & organizations that thrive.
All of this derives from a simple system I developed called The Multiplier Method, a framework that transforms wellbeing into a leadership advantage.
My work challenges the prevailing narrative that engagement, performance and wellbeing begin with the individual. These, instead begin with changing the conditions that surround the individual.
Stop fixing people. Fix the workplace.
It’s the water — not the fish.
“Laura has a knack for taking a topic we think we know and reframing it so that we see it through fresh eyes.”
LuAnn Heinen
Vice President, Business Group on Health
The
Multiplier
Method
Transforming Wellbeing into a Leadership Advantage
Do
Lead by example.
Speak
Talk about wellbeing.
Create
Build a culture.
A proven leadership framework that increases team productivity, enhances employee engagement, and advances a company’s culture.
In today’s fiercely competitive global marketplace, the most important resource any organization has is the wellbeing of its people.
Keynote Topics
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But what if the real issue isn't the people? What if it's the environment shaping them?
Culture is the water we swim in. And just as fish need healthy water to thrive, people flourish in environments rooted in trust, belonging, and genuine care.
Whether you're building a team, leading a company-wide change initiative, or just trying to get everyone to be healthier, the culture you create today will shape your organization’s ability to navigate tomorrow's uncertainty. The key is to focus on shaping the water—not the fish.
Drawing on her experience working with more than 500 organizations and over 50,000 leaders, Laura explains why we're more "creatures of culture" than creatures of habit, why the everyday experiences of employees matter far more than any wellness program ever could, and how everyone has a role to play in building an organization that is resilient, adaptable, and built to thrive.
Audiences Walk Away With:
See the Water. A new mental model — the water, not the fish — that reveals why culture, not individual behavior, is the foundation of resilient companies.
Study the Currents. Learn to recognize the everyday experiences that shape culture long before they become turnover, burnout, stalled growth or crisis.
Shape the Water. Apply the four pillars - Civility, Stability, Significance and Hope - to build a culture that supports innovation, resilience, and long-term success.
Start the Ripple. Leave with practical actions anyone can implement immediately—whether you're building a team, scaling your organization, or strengthening an established company.
Pass It On. Hear real-world stories demonstrating how culture can accelerate innovation, strengthen performance, and become a lasting competitive advantage—or quietly undermine even the best business strategy.
It’s the Water - Not the Fish
Building Resilient Organizations
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Of all the levers an organization can pull to improve performance, engagement, and wellbeing, none matters more than the person managing the team day to day. Yet managers are too often left out of the conversation — expected to drive results without ever being equipped to shape the conditions their teams actually work in.
Built around Laura's Multiplier Method™, cited by the Mayo Clinic, this keynote gives managers a clear, practical framework for becoming the kind of leader whose presence multiplies their team's engagement, wellbeing, and performance — rather than one more variable competing against it. Audiences leave with a concrete answer to a question every organization is asking: what actually makes the difference in the middle?
Audiences Will Walk Away With:
A reframe: the manager isn't part of the system — for their team, they are the system.
The Multiplier Method: three specific, immediately applicable practices for every manager — Do, Speak, Create — with outcomes cited by the Mayo Clinic.
A clear business case for why investing in managers is the highest-leverage decision an organization can make.
Why the Person in the Middle Changes Everything
The Manager Effect
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The evidence is clear: A healthier, happier workforce is good for people, good for the bottom line, and essential for building a high-performing team.
And yet, most workplace wellbeing efforts don’t work. Employees opt out, and even if they do opt in, they’re not necessarily any better off because of them. So, how did we get something so good so wrong? And how do we make it right?
Derived from Laura's bestselling book Workplace Wellness That Works, this keynote will show you how you can level up your company's performance, profitability, and sustainability by elevating the impact of your workplace wellbeing efforts.
What Audiences Walk Away With:
A clear diagnosis of why most wellness programs fail — not for lack of effort, but because they solve for the individual instead of the system that shapes their behavior.
A proven framework for making workplace wellness actually work, from shifting into an agent-of-change mindset to designing everyday nudges and cues.
A business case for wellbeing tied directly to the metrics leaders already track — retention, profitability, safety, and productivity.
What the Best Organizations Do Differently
The Future of Work Is Wellbeing
Mental Health at Work
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It's a leadership responsibility. Managers are watching their teams absorb more stress with fewer resources, caught between rising demands and shrinking bandwidth. The cost isn't just personal. Disengaged, mentally exhausted teams are driving billions in lost productivity every year.
This keynote gives leaders three concrete calls to action: begin the conversation around mental health and break the outdated instinct to leave emotions at the door; reflect on the leadership style they default to under pressure, and how it shapes their team's wellbeing for better or worse; and focus on the daily touchpoints — the hundreds of small, everyday interactions that quietly determine whether people feel lifted up or pushed down. HR can build the programs. Only the leader in the room can shape what happens in the moments in between.
Audiences Will Walk Away With:
A reframe of mental health at work as a leadership responsibility, not an HR program — and clarity on where the line between the two actually falls.
Three concrete calls to action: opening the conversation around mental health, reflecting on their own default leadership style under pressure, and paying attention to daily touchpoints.
An understanding of the "hundreds of small interactions" that quietly shape whether a team feels lifted up or pushed down — and how to start shifting them.
What Every Leader Can Do (That HR Can’t)
Curiosity is the key to a better
Culture.
How can every leader build a thriving culture?
Begin with curiosity, asking more questions.
Learn how to cut through the noise of wellness apps to focus on what really works: Asking the right questions, tackling root causes of burnout, designing ecosystems where people thrive & empowering leaders to leverage wellbeing as a strategic advantage.
Wellbeing isn’t a perk. It’s a leadership imperative.
Featured In
The
ultimate
wellness guide.
Since its release, Laura’s groundbreaking book continues to appear on bestseller lists. A go-to resource that is packed with actionable tips to help leaders, managers, and employees spark wellbeing in every workplace.