Author of Shine Brighter and Executive recruiter turned transformation guide helping high-achievers break free from burnout and find authentic success
Author of Shine Brighter: The High-Performer's Guide to Purpose, Presence and Peak Living, Laura King transforms workplace culture by addressing the root cause of employee disengagement: misalignment between personal values and daily work.
Drawing from over 30,000 executive interviews, Laura helps organizations identify the early warning signs of high-functioning burnout before it becomes costly turnover.
Through her proven PurposeOS framework, she equips leaders with practical tools to reconnect their teams to purpose, protect top performers from exhaustion, and create sustainable engagement without adding perks or gimmicks.
The result? Companies reduce turnover, employees rediscover fulfillment, and workplace culture becomes a magnet for top talent—all through the power of authentic alignment.
Ready to transform disengagement into alignment and turnover into retention?
Book Laura for your next keynote, podcast interview, executive workshop, or media appearance
THIS ISN’T JUST culture–building
it’s culture REWIRING.
30,000
Interviews conducted with Executives, Founders, Leaders and High-Achievers.
20+
Years placing talent as an
executive recruiter
82%
White-Collar Workers Report Burnout
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The hidden costs of high-functioning burnout, its impact on employee engagement and retention, and practical strategies for organizational well-being. Laura provides data-driven insights from 30,000+ interviews with concrete solutions for leaders.
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Why top performers are quietly quitting and what organizations can do about it. Laura reveals the gap between external achievement and internal fulfillment that's driving talent to seek more meaningful work.
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How to lead authentically during periods of change and uncertainty. Laura teaches leaders to navigate transformation while maintaining team stability and personal well-being, drawing from real-world executive experiences.
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How the next generation of leaders is redefining success to include well-being, authenticity, and life integration. Laura discusses trends she's observing in executive recruiting and what organizations need to evolve.
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Moving beyond performance-based identity to authentic leadership. Laura helps professionals align their career trajectory with their core values, creating sustainable success that feels as good internally as it looks externally.
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A practical roadmap for sustainable success: Awareness (seeing clearly what no longer fits), Attitude (choosing supportive mindsets), Action (taking aligned micro-moves), and Alignment (living in harmony with your values).
Expertise & Speaking Topics
Meet Laura King
Laura King knows what she's talking about. As a 20+ year executive recruiter, Laura has conducted over 30,000 executive interviews, giving her a rare bird's-eye view of what success actually costs versus what it delivers.
After witnessing the "silent epidemic" of high-functioning burnout among accomplished professionals—and experiencing her own breakdown despite outward success—Laura wrote Shine Brighter: The High-Performer's Guide to Purpose, Presence and Peak Living.
Laura bridges the intersection of business and soul, offering practical frameworks that appeal to both skeptics and spiritual seekers. Her PurposeOS and 4 A's Framework (Awareness, Attitude, Action, Alignment) provides concrete structure for transformation, making authentic success accessible to analytical minds.
Official Bio
Core Belief & Mission
Laura's work addresses a critical truth: traditional success metrics are creating a mental health crisis in corporate America. With burnout rates hitting 82% among white-collar workers and 53% of C-suite executives facing workplace mental health challenges, the need for a new approach to achievement has never been more urgent.
Through speaking, workshops, coaching, and her book Shine Brighter, Laura helps high-achievers discover that real success isn't about doing more—it's about becoming more of who you truly are. She offers permission to stop performing and start living, which is exactly what burned-out professionals need to hear.
Laura lives in Woodbury, Minnesota with her husband and four sons, actively modeling the aligned living she teaches.
Latest Media Apperance
Laura discusses the workplace burnout epidemic and her 4 A's Framework for sustainable success
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Tony Ticknor
Laura has a truly remarkable gift for helping people uncover their potential and step into their purpose with clarity and confidence. Her empathy and authenticity create a space where transformation feels not only possible but inevitable.
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Jennifer Annett
I thought I was simply looking for a new job. I felt bored, ignored, and uninspired. Instead, what I got with Laura was a personal guide who challenged me to think beyond the confines of the golden handcuffs and visualize the life I truly wanted to live.
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Nick Roseth
Working with Laura over the past 10 years has been an extraordinary journey filled with growth, inspiration, and achievement. Her ability to energize, structure, inspire and orient people towards their purpose is her unique gift.
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Jake Picht
If you're ready to stop living a life others expect and start creating the life you're meant to live, Laura King is your guide to unlocking your most vibrant, purposeful path. She helped me breakthrough long-standing roadblocks and take a crucial leap of faith.
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Theresa Rose
Laura King has the rare gift of cutting through all the distractions, noise, and uncertainty to bring clarity and light to all her endeavors, whether it's her speaking, coaching, or content development. Her presence is palpable, and she naturally, enthusiastically brings out the best in people, helping them to activate their higher purpose!
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Mike Rabon
Laura King connects with her audience because she understands what matters. I could feel the joy, feel the sadness, and understand the vicissitudes of life by listening to Laura. Few people know how to genuinely and authentically connect with people. Laura's speaking skills are like sweet-sounding music. You don't want it to end.
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Shannon Caswell
Laura has a refreshing approach to coaching. She embodies a safe place to show up authentically; while asking you the hard questions that challenge and hold you accountable in ways you never knew you needed. Her energy and passion for helping others transform is where Laura shines!
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Mel Hanson
I went from this feeling of total despair like, 'Oh my gosh, life as I know it is over. What am I going to do? I am losing my job’ to being in the best position across all the wheels of life that I have been in, and our family has been in, in a really long time. Laura helped me activate my purpose, and I now have a thriving business and a thriving home.
Stop proving your worth. Start living from your truth — not your resume.
Let go of outdated goals. Define success on your terms — finally.
Awareness, Attitude, Action, Alignment — a simple system to create real, lasting transformation.
You don’t need more hustle. You need more harmony, purpose, and presence.
Your greatest impact starts when you stop hiding and start owning your magic.
Design a life that energizes you — without blowing everything up to get there.
THE HIGH PERFORMER’S GUIDE TO PURPOSE, PRESENCE, AND PEAK LIVING.
SHINE BRIGHTER
YOUR TURN
READY to Connect Purpose
to Performance?
Transform your culture from the inside out. Move from performance pressure to authentic presence. Build a workplace where purpose drives performance and your best people choose to stay.