Speaker & Consultant

Choreographer, dancer, and engineer; Laurel Lawson found that dance combines her lifelong loves of athleticism and art.  Featuring liminality, synthesistic myth, and partnering, her work includes both traditional choreography and novel ways of extending and creating art through technology and design.

Recognized for her work and leadership in the fields of both art and technology, Laurel is a co-founder and leads product design at a highly successful boutique technology consultancy and has more than two decades experience in building high-performance decentralized teams and processes. As an artist-engineer her creative teams combine people with a wild diversity of domains and experiences. As a facilitator and consultant, she has guided organizations of all sizes towards activation of their commitments to equity, diversity, and accessibility.

Sample talk or workshop topics include:
• remote collaboration and organizational transformation
• ethical leadership & design
• disability accessibility & equitable practice
• design practice, queering creativity, and creative career-building
• hospitality, collaboration, and personal/team/organizational process
• universal design & Santa Claus: why stories matter

If you're interested in these or other topics for your company, school, or organization, info to include: in-person or remote (subject to travel availability and budget), your event size and your audience's professional or educational context, and any scheduling constraints. While Laurel is sometimes available for last-minute engagements most talks or workshops are scheduled 3 to 9 months in advance. Facilitation, consulting, and advisory position inquiries are considered on an individual basis.

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"Laurel's workshops use humor and vulnerability to deliver actionable challenges...she makes people laugh and then think."

"My class was still talking about it weeks later."