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C-IQ Certified Coach

San Francisco Bay Area, California USA

Laurie Cozart

CIQ Certified Coach

Laurie Cozart, the founder of Brain Squared Solutions, is a seasoned executive who brings mature perspective and broad expertise to leadership training, coaching and organizational consulting. Laurie has over 30 years of professional experience working in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, where she has served as a board member, executive director, and in CEO and COO roles. 

Laurie has spent the last 20 years providing executive and leadership coaching and training to large government agencies and corporate organizations. Laurie’s outstanding expertise includes organizational development, leadership development, program and operational management, strategic planning and training program development for all types of institutions.

Laurie is accredited by the International Coach Federation as a Master Certified Coach, a level attained by only 1% of professional coaches worldwide. She has coached executives across the United States and globally.  

Laurie specializes in helping leaders build strong organizational cultures that improve results and outcomes.  She has successfully coached leaders through exponential growth, transitions and transformations, crisis and acquisitions, improving organizational communication, building engagement and collaboration and improving sales results. 

Using insightful and effective coaching, as well as evidence- based strategies proven to improve performance, Laurie works with her clients to discover and define their vision, identify barriers and limiting beliefs and set challenging, but achievable, goals. She partners with clients to ensure they are not settling for limited aspirations by helping them calibrate their long and short-term goals against their core values and desired results and outcomes.  

Laurie is an award-winning coach, instructor and a dynamic facilitator. She specializes in building strong leaders and developing healthy teams. She has coached over 10,000+ people and facilitated trainings for 500+ teams and/or organizations across all industries. Laurie is regularly invited to speak at leadership conferences and team training events throughout the United States. 

Laurie became a coach and educator to pursue her passion of spreading organizational development and systems thinking into dynamic, performance-enhancing leadership skills. She uses Organizational Development and Continuous Quality improvement techniques, coupled with neuroscience, to transform organizational structures into high- performance and organizational cultures into high engagement. 

Laurie has been an Executive Coach and Leadership Development Instructor for the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) Extension for over decade. While at the UC Davis Extension, she received the UC Davis Dean’s, “Outstanding Service Award” for “Creating a World of Learning”. Laurie is also a Mentor Coach, program facilitator and instructor for the University of California at Davis Coaching for Work and Life program, a program facilitator and instructor for the Academy of Leadership Coaching and NLP, and an International Coach Federation, Master Certified Coach (MCC).  Laurie is President elect of the International Coaching Federation Sacramento Chapter and has been featured in Smart Money Magazine, More Magazine, Smart Manager Magazine, Care.com.