Hardwire Resilience
How to build emotional endurance: the capacity to stay steady when things get hard.
Counselor · Speaker · Comedian · Author
Co-Founder & Chief Coping Officer, Sprouting Change
A clinical counselor, author, speaker, and comedian who believes understanding ourselves shouldn't have to be so serious. Laurie combines clinical expertise with humor and practical tools to make the science of coping accessible, engaging, and genuinely useful in everyday life.
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Clinical depth, real laughs, and a room that leaves with something to use.
Keynotes, workshops and more
Laurie delivers keynotes and workshops, emcees, and joins panels. Each talk pairs with the Carnival, so the ideas from the stage become skills on the midway.
How to build emotional endurance: the capacity to stay steady when things get hard.
Why regulated teams are safer, stronger teams, and how leaders can build a culture that handles stress instead of avoiding it.
What happens in the body when a conversation gets hard, and how to stay steady enough to have it well.
Don't just hear it. Feel it.
Everything Laurie teaches from the stage, she built into the Emotional Endurance Carnival: 30+ interactive booths where your people practice real coping skills and keep the ones that fit. Bring in the Carnival on its own, or open it with a keynote from Laurie.
See the Carnival
The books
Conscious Coping is the book behind the skills on the midway. Laurie's next book, Daughter of John, is on the way.
Where Laurie has spoken
Florida Fire Chiefs' Association
Chief Probation Officers of California
MPI Ohio Chapter
National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals
Indiana Health Care Association
Wisconsin Assisted Living Association
North Dakota Safety Conference
First Work Ontario
Kentucky Association of Nurse Practitioners & Nurse-Midwives
Ohio Public Transit Association
Starling
Mercersburg Women in FocusTell us about your event, and mention if you'd like Laurie to open it with a keynote.
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