Strategic Advisory for Courageous Leaders
I am a strategic advisor to founders and teams building vibrant, life affirming businesses.
You can find me where capital, leadership ethos, strategy and culture intersect to not only create new products and shareholder value, but new paradigms.
Economic empowerment.
Systems based on mutual care.
Equanimity with the natural world.
Finding Leverage
and Identity Coherence
I help surface where leaks and real leverage lies:
Where values are stated but not lived.
Where definitions of. value and capital structure are incongruent.
Where energy is diffuse not only in strategy and execution, but in relationships and presence.
I equally bring my own interpretive lens
and a devotion to uncovering your untarnished vision.
I work with intellectual rigor, compassion, a spirit of possibility, and energetic attunement.
My clients describe our work as “catalytic," "clarifying,” and "expansive."
My approach aligns best with leaders who value emotional intelligence, self awareness, and integrity and are commitment to personal development.
When is it time to work together?
It’s time to work together when your organization’s foundation is solid, and is facing a moment of transition or increasing complexity that brings new demands and opportunities.
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Attracting Financial Capital fundraising, capital campaign, restructuring
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Leadership Transition planning, cultural and systems integration
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Identity Evolutions aligning your essence with narrative and strategy
My engagements are always non-operational, embedded with leadership, and are custom to align my contribution with your success.
More on Lauren Pappas
I support brilliant leaders who are doing brave and inspired work. I have the immense privilege of their trust, and the joy of co-creating with their genius.
My professional career spans high stakes investment banking and growth stage private equity, Executive Leadership roles in high-growth businesses across the food value chain (regenerative agriculture, restaurant & hospitality, CPG), and transformational coaching.
For more on my professional experience and background, you can
Other identities that equally matter to me include mother, colleague, friend, daughter, neighbor, land caretaker, and wealth steward.
I also write and speak about what my life is showing me. My work is personal, emotive, sometimes funny, spanning living with vision loss, parenthood, Artificial Intelligence and the evolution of human consciousness, love and loss, sublime encounters with the natural world.
As a queer single mom of a latina daughter, I strive to center humanity and equanimity in all pursuits.
This website is in transition. Thank you for being here.
To start a conversation, contact me via email.