Lawrence brings 25+ years experience as an executive and leadership coach across sectors.
He is passionate about supporting clients to access their full presence, develop their highest visions, navigate challenges skillfully, and produce extraordinary results.
Lawrence has served in several leadership, consulting and coaching roles across sectors. He was as a director with one of the oldest change-leadership consulting firms in the US, Interaction Associates; served as Co-Lead of Thought Leadership for Health Equity across 750,000 people at Accenture, the world’s largest digital and tech consulting company; has led large-scale movement-building campaigns; and is a producer of films and global tele-summits on sustainability.
Lawrence is especially focused on supporting everyone to lead, in any and every way possible, to avert climate catastrophe, understanding that we have until 2025 at the latest to peak global greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the 1.50 C point-of-no-return. He is fiercely committed to creating a sustainable, just, thriving world for all humans, all species, and all ecosystems. He serves as a)plan’s Lead Sustainability Advisor.
He also serves as Senior Faculty with the Fellows Program of the prestigious American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley Chapter, teaching mindfulness, transformative leadership, and sustainability to a network of 800 of the region’s top leaders, across all sectors.
Lawrence is descended from several Southern and Western African peoples (non-citizen/non-initiated), African Americans who journeyed from Virginia and Georgia to New Jersey and New York in The Great Migration, and Cherokee and Munsee nations (non-citizen/non-enrolled). He lives in Lisjan (Ohlone) Territory (encompassing Oakland, CA). His partner Mike, and his niece, Marikit Suki, and nephew, Danta Kai, whom he co-parented for several years, and to whom he remains a primary alloparent, are daily sources of infinite joy, wonder, and love.
Education & Credentials
- BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship
- MA, Oxford University, on the Rhodes Scholarship
- Center for Creative Leadership Executive Coaching certification
- Interaction Associates Coach certification
- Certified mindfulness meditation teacher
- 15 years of Somatics training (Somatic Experiencing, Generative Somatics, Peer Counseling)
Clients that have benefited from Lawrence’s support, across sectors, include AAA, American Hospital Association, American Red Cross, CH2M, Charles Schwab, Conservation Fund, eBay, Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, National Co+op Grocers, National Geographic, National Patient Safety Foundation, Navajo Nation, Oakland Museum of California, Packard Foundation, PG&E, Princeton University, Sematech, Solar Richmond, Stupski Foundation, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, VMware, Washington State Hospital Association.