Before becoming the Founder and CEO of Bold Font, Lauran built her 25-year career by combining a vision for positive change with direct action. Whether educating the next generation in high school and university classrooms, community organizing to decrease sexual violence, or redefining female leadership roles in the tech industry, Lauran embraces difficult conversations and situations as a conduit for profound cultural shifts. Lauran is a skilled consultant and coach to senior executives and their teams and has a track record of transforming leaders and lives through her work. 

Lauran is the creator and author of several leadership curricula and programs, including peer-to-peer mentoring programs, culture building and transformation, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and executive leadership. She is a trusted mediator and advisor for employment lawyers and leadership teams in the area of interpersonal conflict and the repair process. 

Lauran holds a Master’s in Educational Leadership and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government with a minor in Gender Studies from Colorado State University. Lauran graduated from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) of East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), where she lived in 2001. She continues to learn and grow every day from her most important role–as a proud mom to two incredible humans.