KEYNOTE SPEAKER · BRIGADIER GENERAL · INSTRUCTOR PILOT
Honor your hours
A Brigadier General guiding strategic leaders to make sharper, more intentional choices about their time, priorities, energy, and presence.
LET'S GET STARTEDWHAT'S POSSIBLE
What you schedule reveals what you value
Decisions made on purpose
The calendar stops being a backlog and starts being a strategy — every meeting, commitment, and yes earns its place.
Priorities that actually hold
What matters most stops getting pushed by what's loudest. Leaders protect the work only they can do.
Performance that sustains
The discipline elite operators use to lead at altitude without burning out the engine — or the life around it.
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
2x
Women are twice as likely as men to be responsible for the majority of household management and caregiving coordination.
Harvard Business Review60%
Six in 10 senior women leaders report frequent burnout — the highest level reported in the past five years.
McKinsey & Company81
For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 81 women are promoted into leadership roles — a gap that widens.
McKinsey & Company13%
Women have 13% less leisure time than men on average — driven largely by unequal household 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...
Now she teaches women leaders the same operating discipline that lets elite operators perform at altitude.
LET'S GET STARTEDCurrently
- Chief of Staff — Air, Vermont Air National Guard
- Brigadier General (promoted July 2025)
- Instructor Pilot, BETA Technologies
Command & Service
- Led 158th Maintenance Group: 400+ personnel, 20 F-35A aircraft
- Deployed in support of Operations Allied Force, Iraqi Freedom
THE CREDENTIALS
30+ years
of leadership in the U.S. Air Force and aerospace.
TRAINED AT:
Harvard Kennedy School · Tuck at Dartmouth · Air War College · University of Illinois
THREE TALKS, ONE THESIS
From the cockpit to the keynote
01
The Boundary Advantage
Why saying no is a strategic power move
Drawing on senior military command, Laura shows how the discipline to say no protects the few decisions only a leader can make.
02
Leading at Altitude
Operating metrics for sustainable scale
How to implement structural checks and balances that prevent internal operational burn-out before it hits the timeline.
Great leadership is scheduled
Take control of your calendar before someone else does. Operational discipline isn't about restriction — it's about freedom.
Get in touch
Ready to bring operational discipline to your team, organization, or your next event keynote stage?
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