Laura Polz Caputo
 Keynote speaker  Brigadier General  Instructor pilot
Honor your hours
A Brigadier General teaching women leaders how elite operators make intentional decisions about time, priorities, energy, and presence.
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What's possible
When you honor your time, everything shifts.
01
Decisions made on purpose
The calendar stops being a backlog and starts being a strategy — every meeting, commitment, and yes earns its place.
02
Priorities that actually hold
What matters most stops getting pushed by what's loudest. Leaders protect the work only they can do.
03
Performance that sustains
The discipline elite operators use to lead at altitude without burning out the engine — or the life around it.
04
A life that fits the leader
High-stakes leadership and a meaningful life stop trading off. They start reinforcing each other.
By the numbers
The cost of overlooked time
Most leaders already feel it. Time is going somewhere — and it's rarely where it matters most.
2X
Women are twice as likely as men to be responsible for the majority of household management and caregiving coordination — the invisible planning work that rarely appears on a calendar.
Harvard Business Review; American Time Use Survey
60%
Six in 10 senior women leaders report frequent burnout — the highest level reported in the past five years.
McKinsey & Company
81
For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women are promoted into leadership roles — a gap that widens at every level.
McKinsey & Company
13%
Women have 13% less leisure time than men on average — driven largely by unequal household and caregiving responsibilities.
Gender Equity Policy Institute
About Laura
Every step, earned.
After stepping back from full-time service to raise her children, Laura recognized the invisible weight she had been carrying. As her and her husband’s careers grew, so did the imbalance — until she realized this wasn’t her private burden to carry, but a leadership question worth asking out loud.
What started as a private reckoning became the question that defines her work today. Now she teaches women leaders the same operating discipline that lets elite operators perform at altitude — how to make intentional choices about time, priorities, energy, and presence, without trading away the life beneath the title.
She speaks to high-performing teams navigating the same intersection, with humor, candor, and three decades of hard-earned perspective.
Currently
- Chief of Staff — Air, Vermont Air National Guard
- Brigadier General (promoted July 2025)
- Instructor Pilot, BETA Technologies · 3,500+ flight hours
Command
- Most recently led the 158th Maintenance Group: 400+ personnel, 20 F-35A aircraft, $25M+ in facilities
Service
- Deployed in support of Operations Allied Force, Northern & Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom
- Activated for Hurricane Irene, H1N1, and COVID-19 response
Trained at
- Harvard Kennedy School · Tuck at Dartmouth
- Air War College · University of Illinois
Three talks, one thesis
From the cockpit
to the keynote.
Best For
 Executive audiences
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The Boundary Advantage
Why saying no is a strategic power move
The leaders who climb highest aren’t the ones who do the most — they’re the ones who choose the most clearly. Drawing on senior military command and aerospace innovation, Laura shows how the discipline to say no protects the few decisions only a leader can make. Audiences leave with a sharper read on where their authority is actually being spent — and the language to reclaim it.
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Working with Stephanie has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for my business. She took the time to understand not just what I do, but who I am—and then translated that into a brand that finally feels like home. My messaging, visual identity, and brand ecosystem now reflect the heart and purpose behind everything I do—from product campaigns to social strategy to the soul of my master brand. Stephanie has this extraordinary ability to bring clarity out of chaos and to position you so your audience immediately understands your value. I walked away from our work together not only with an elevated brand, but with a renewed sense of confidence, direction, and excitement for what’s ahead.
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