Biography

Laura’s story is impressive. She started as the youngest female presidential appointee in history, the White House Director of Events for Bill Clinton. She authored a book that has helped people worldwide learn how to Eat, Drink and Succeed. And, thanks to her professional emcee and keynote work, in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, she was named one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the Global Event Industry.” She is seen weekly on screens as the American Contributor to Australia’s number one morning show, “Today.”

Laura has been taking her empowering presentations to stages and virtually through screens worldwide since 2001. She is well known for her dynamic keynotes and as a mistress of ceremonies for multi-day conferences and events. Whether addressing an intimate gathering of 30, a crowd of 30,000, or virtually connecting audiences worldwide, Laura captivates audiences with her positive energy, expertise, and enthusiasm. Laura has received high marks for her work as emcee for many prominent corporations, including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Hyundai, Uber, Verizon, Mercedes Benz, AT&T, Cathay Pacific, HSBC, BlackRock, MACY’S, Hilton, Hyatt, the Oprah Winfrey Network, NBC Universal, PepsiCo, Realtor.com, Coldwell Banker, Berkshire Hathaway, Asembia Pharmaceutical, Gilead, Regeneron, Raytheon, Boeing, Neilson IQ, and many more.

Laura has been a prominent face on television worldwide since 2001, covering six presidential elections, two royal weddings, and more. She started as a contract contributor for Fox News Channel before moving to CNN and CBS. Today, she is an on-contract, on-air regular contributor on Australia’s #1 Morning Show “Today” and appears on ITV London. In 2021, along with her cast from ITV News, she was awarded the International Drum Award for Podcast of the Year. She is an authoritative source and commentator on various topics, including the American presidency, domestic and foreign affairs, women in business, and philanthropy.

In Eat, Drink & Succeed! Laura shares the secrets to building powerful, effective partnerships where we least expect them—in our companies, communities, and beyond. Drawing from personal anecdotes from people worldwide, as well as her life and White House years, Laura reveals how to harness the networking power of social events. Laura donates 100 percent of proceeds from books sold at engagements to a nonprofit of the client’s choice.

As the White House Director of Events for the Clinton Administration, Laura worked one-on-one with the President, the First Lady, World Heads of State, and international business leaders as she created and executed more than 1,000 White House events, including State arrival ceremonies and dinners, America’s Millennium Celebration, the UN Millennium Summit and NATO’s 50th Anniversary. While producing the President’s events on the world stage, Laura demonstrated the ability to inspire a nation and the world through powerful productions. At 19 years old and the youngest female Presidential Appointee in history, she arrived at the White House without political connections. She began climbing up the ranks as a Staff Assistant, the Midwest Press Secretary, the Director of Television, and ultimately, the White House Director of Events. Following the administration, Laura traveled the world with Former President Clinton for the Global Initiative.

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Eat, Drink & Succeed

The keynote your audience will be talking about all year.
It’s motivational, humorous and engaging, it’s immediately actionable.

Laura’s super-charged signature series is centered on being “prepared for partnership” while turning the “optional into opportunity,” because as Laura reminds us all, “You ever know when the next conversation will be the conversation to change your life or that of someone else!”

Laura challenges her audience to ask, “What can I do for you?” instead of the more negative — “What can you do for me?” interpretation of networking. She explains how positive, powerful networking involves mentoring and leading both inside and outside of the office. And, she incorporates your conference programming and year-round engagement into examples where Laura’s tips can be used to increase results for every member of your audience.

When the event is over, these lessons can be carried back to the office and put to work in professional and personal settings. Eat, Drink & Succeed motivates, engages, and most importantly, it drives action. Whether a first-time attendee or a seasoned veteran, attendees will feel empowered to take every facet of the conference and make it work to their full advantage and yours. Laura pro- vides the tools and techniques that motivate attendees to capitalize on all social and business interactions at the conference so that they, too, can turn relationships into partnerships and ideas into realities.

Lead First

A unique & dynamic presentation on leadership in times of success, turbulence and change.

As any great leader will attest, leading in successful times is easy. It’s what a leader does in times of turbulence and change that sets them apart. In this one-of-a-kind program, Laura shares little-known stories from more than 200 years of U.S. Presidents and First Ladies to inspire great leadership in any circumstance. Laura adapts these non-partisan stories to make relevant and relatable comparisons to your company or association, and offers tips that attendees can immediately put into action in their personal or professional lives. Laura uses her unique White House experience to share valuable takeaways and inspiring stories from the earliest White House inhabitants, along with first-hand accounts of defining moments during the Clinton administration. She illustrates real solutions from the successes and failures in leadership that we all can practice in our daily lives as we work with our customers and colleagues and share within our communities and families.

Activate Your Superpowers

A program about her personal and professional journey, Laura reveals 5 superpowers of engagement that can change our lives.

From her start as a small-town girl with a speech impediment to becoming the youngest female presidential appointee in White House history and eventually an international professional speaker and television commentator, Laura delivers relevant and relatable moments of her challenges and success paired with the very superpowers we develop throughout our lives.

Laura will reveal the 5 Superpowers we all have inside and outline how we can activate those 5 and identify more Superpowers that are unique unto ourselves. You will turn to these newly discovered powers at work, at home and in your communities to build successful leadership, engagement and development throughout ever y stage of your life.

This compelling, motivational program will leave every audience inspired with a charge to put on their cape and tap into their inner Superhero!

Custom Keynotes

Laura customizes each keynote and can further create original programming and curated plenary's tailored to specific company content and themes.

Laura always customizes her programs to your message and objectives, and she is known for her power of connection to the audience at hand – not simply giving the same speech over and over again.

Laura is eager to work with partners like you to create original programming and to curate a keynote or creative plenary tailored to your goals and objectives. Whether based on conference themes, a rebrand, new partnership or a corporate milestone – you name it – after an hour call with Laura she will transform your message into an incredible personal connection with your audience and deliver it on your stage!

We’re delighted you joined us as the emcee and a keynote! By sharing your own professional experiences on stage, you demonstrated how transformation is being powered across today’s business landscape. This resonated with our teams and helped put us on the right path for the conference itself and the year ahead in AT&T Business.
– Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO, AT&T Global Business
Laura is an outstanding communicator, as I know from her sparkling appearances on Frost Over The World. As she says, ‘Your career isn’t 9-5, it’s 24-7,’ and she’s living proof of just how well that works.
– Sir David Frost
It was not only your message and how you connected directly with our members and our mission, but your delivery was engaging and mesmerizing! You made everyone feel connected.
– Beth Kost, Past President, Junior League

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