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Lauren McGoodwin    

Founder & CEO, Career Contessa, Best-Selling Author of "Power Moves", Women's Career Development Speaker

Lauren McGoodwin founded Career Contessa in 2013 after experiencing a gap in career development resources for women who might be job searching, soul searching, leading and managing, or trying to find new ways to advance within their careers. With women accounting for more than 50% of the workforce and the workforce being less defined than ever before, it seemed crazy (and outdated) that a resource for us didn't exist.

Fast-forward to today, Career Contessa is now the largest online career site built inclusively for women. McGoodwin is also author of Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose (2020), co-host of The Career Contessa podcast, and an educator/speaker on a variety of career topics.

Formerly, McGoodwin was a University Recruiter for Hulu focused on hiring, employer branding, and program management. McGoodwin has a Bachelors in Education from the University of Oregon and a Masters in Communication Management from the University of Southern California where she wrote her thesis on millennials and career resources.

When not Contessa-ing, you can find McGoodwin spending time with her family in Redondo Beach, CA where she lives with her husband and daughter.

In May of 2020, Lauren published her first book, Power Moves, with Harper Business and it quickly became a best-selling new release on Amazon.

Speech Topics


The Value of Being Invaluable at Work

We've been taught to be "indispensable" employees who work hard and keep our heads down—but that's not how you get ahead in the workplace.

Participants will:

  • Learn the difference between indispensable and invaluable contributors
  • Learn how to determine what's important at work
  • Learn how to elevate your position at work

How to Develop a Healthier Relationship To Work (Without Quitting Your Job)

Learn how to reclaim your life from work and ditch the dream job myth by embracing the "good enough" job.

Participants will:

  • Get unstuck from dream job expectations and learn what a "good enough" job is
  • Get strategies and tips for reclaiming their life from work and the positive impacts that it has at work
  • Three drivers behind workplace happiness

Leading As a Career Coach

People don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. And most managers are never given any leadership training. Let's fix that.

Participants will:

  • Learn why the best managers don't manage, they coach
  • The mindsets and behaviors of a great coach
  • Strategies and tips to maximize results and empower your team

Make a Power Move: Habits + Behaviors for Success

98% of employees say they perform better when they're confident. Let's help give them confidence tools!

Participants will:

  • The power in "people skills" and why they're not "soft"
  • Identify your own anti-confidence habits
  • Strategies to build confidence, speak up, and self-advocate at work.

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