Lead an InspiHER’d Life
Laurie Swanson helps Women in Tech align their life’s work (outer action) with their True Nature (inner self) as the surest path to a fulfilling career and an inspired life.
Connect Inner Wisdom with Real Change
Her spiritual approach and proven techniques come from a lifetime of connecting Women in Tech with jobs they love. Through her coaching, speaking and weekly InspiHERations blog, Laurie shares the power of bringing our whole selves to our work.
Elevating Women in Tech
Laurie started out as a coder, became the #1 software sales rep in her company and then founded a successful tech recruiting firm. She’s passionate about honoring the whole person for women known for their left-brain expertise and digital prowess.
Women in Tech Resetting
Laurie’s Career Reset program is the only one of its kind. It guides Women in Tech to exit careers that no longer serve them on their terms and timeline, monetize their passions and expertise, and reset their careers with confidence, ease, and joy.
Laurie’s TED Talk!
Meet Laurie
Your Transformation Coach
First, she was a coder.
Laurie studied business and information technology at the University of Texas. First job? A computer programmer! Then she followed her true nature and shifted into Technology Recruiting and Software Sales.
She founded The Laso Corporation in 1995 and grew it to a multi-million dollar, boutique Information Technology search firm.
Around 2010, Laurie began to feel the tug towards doing something new. She was evolving and knew that Laso and recruiting had run their course. After considering many different ideas over a period of years, what Laurie knew for sure was that she loved supporting women to live their dreams AND she was an entrepreneur at heart. Coaching was the clear path. Laurie got certified in 2015 and rebranded Laso as InspiHER Tech, a career coaching firm for women in tech and tech-related careers, who have been dreaming of resetting their careers but are not sure where to start, supporting Laurie’s mission to empower women to create the careers and lives they love through a spirit-centered approach.
Laurie’s credentials include:
- Certified Women’s Business Enterprise
- Certified Professional iPEC and Energy Leadership Coach
- Cornell University Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Unconscious Bias certified expert
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Negotiation Coach
- National Association of Personnel Services Certified
- Martha Beck Certified Life Coach
- Certified Passion Test Facilitator
- Former director of the monthly Tech Talk Programming at 1871, recognized by UBI Global as the #1 Private Business Incubator in the world
- Mentor through AnitaB.org, Chicago Innovation, and the Executives Club of Chicago
- Keynote and panelist speaker on various topics related to confidence, negotiation, becoming an entrepreneur, mindset, Ageism and aging in, tapping into wisdom intelligence, and claiming your inner leader.
Laurie is a giver. She delights in giving back and was on the board of her local chamber, volunteered at her city’s Community Relations and Fine and Cultural Arts Commissions, with People’s Resource Center, and in the schools for Junior Achievement and Incubator EDU. She’s been married for more than two decades and has two adult kiddos. She loves walking among trees, independent films, great stories, poker nights with girlfriends, and learning about and from others. Laurie is a personal and spiritual growth junkie who never says no to hearing your miracle story and is happy to share one of hers – just ask!
If you want to reset your career like Laurie, check out when our upcoming Career Reset cohort opens up. www.inspiHERtech.com/career-reset.
Meet Team InspiHER Tech
Our Mission: To inspiHER Women in Tech to transform their careers by aligning with their True Nature, creating success on their own terms and being part of a community of women leading change in work culture so it works for everyone.
JESSICA MORYL
Office Administration & SEO
SUSANNA PERRETT
Marketing Manager
KATIE ZAWACKI
Office Manager
RYAN FOSTER
Graphic Designer
LAUREL KASHINN
Write Stuff Resources, Inc.
Resumes, Cover Letters and more
MICHELE KELLY
Co-founder K+L Storytellers
Content Strategy
MARY BETH MORAN
Kirkby, Phelan and Associates
Finance and Accounting Expert
KIMBERLY A. HOUSER
Legal Counsel
VARGA & SONS
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