Why a Green Frog?

Sit next to her and Laura will likely hand you a tiny 🐸 frog and start talking to you about breathing, the brain, and why you taking care of yourself is good for others. She will explain how important it is to listen to your brain-body-mind cues in order to avoid “boiling your frog.”

The conversation will be informed by 20+ years of education experience and buckets of research done by brilliant neuroscientists and leaders. It will include learnings from her varied experiences - from finance to classroom to IT - that help her balance often lofty science supported ideas with the paucity of space in the living of each day. It will most certainly be through the lens of life experiences that have taught the value of empathy, alignment, and grace.

She may tell stories of sitting with financial clients during times of loss and gain. Of making the shift to education and teaching a class of 36 in a portable. About shifting to IT and the dismay of a tech call to fix a server located under a bathroom. Or perhaps of coaching tirelessly dedicated teachers during the 19-20 school year working night and day to serve their learners.

The point of it all? Working in finance, education, IT, and adult learning has given Laura a clear understanding that collective success depends on each person feeling supported, resourced, and empowered.

This led to her creating The BrainSAFE Approach.

The BrainSAFE Approach to Living Better, Leading Stronger, and Amplifying Impact.

The BrainSAFE Approach helps leaders at all levels live their best lives (in and out of the workplace) and supports organizations as they safely navigate the many changes of today’s fast paced, dynamic landscape.

The important key is that The BrainSAFE Approach is approachable, accessible, and realistic. Each transformational, brain-based tool or strategy in the BrainSAFE model promises four things:

• It will not take significant amounts of time

• It can be done anytime, anywhere

• It will you feel more in control, and

• It will make your life generally easier

If an idea/strategy doesn’t meet all four criteria, as great as it may be, it won’t make the cut. The goal is to bring understanding to all that "People need to feel safe, warm, and fuzzy before we can help them do or learn anything."

Laura’s goal is to impact 1,000,000 lives by 2035 by bringing The BrainSAFE Approach to the world via speaking and coaching.

Need a frog? Email her at laura@structuredshifts.com.