Jane Lauterback is a Leadership Coach and an Executive Business Development Officer at The Purposeworks, with a 20+ year international track record influencing Fortune 500 companies, high-growth venture-backed organizations, non-profits and foundations. Jane lends her expertise anywhere there's a penchant for creating vibrant work places, improving meaningful performance and having richer relationships and personal fulfillment. At The Purposeworks, the company she founded, Jane combines interlocking skillsets in talent development, strategic marketing and business development along with mindfulness and contemplative neuroscience to empower dynamic leadership. She understands the stubborn challenges and obstacles faced by executives and teams. Her unique abilities accelerate the velocity of results with ease, clarity and constructive action. Jane also serves as a consultant for Lee Hecht Harrison, guiding senior professionals in transition. Jane has held branding leadership roles in corporations and in marketing communications agencies such as Nortel Networks, McCann-Erickson Japan, and Xerox Corporation. Her work includes team coaching and leading collaboration among diverse functions across multiple geographies (US, Europe, China, India, Japan, and South Africa) to bring new value and revenue to companies. Her depth of industry experience ranges from financial services, technology management consulting, media and entertainment to CPG sectors. Clients have included The MacArthur Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, AIG, AXA, Catchpoint, Bloomberg, The Gap, Inc., Colgate-Palmolive, MasterCard, MetLife, FINRA, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Duff & Phelps, IBM, Knight Capital Group, Impact Assets, L'Oreal, Janus, CFA Institute, Microsoft, Schwab Institutional Services and Viacom, among others. Her first book in the final editing stage, A Handbook on Leadership, is based on extensive research and interviews with more than 30 CEOs, plus CMOs, CFOs, and CROs on how their values, behaviors, and purpose shape strategy and their organizations. It also includes insights from working with hundreds of executives on gaining greater awareness to enhance their responsiveness to diverse and often ambiguous circumstances. Jane is a coach for NYU's Stern School,its Berkley Innovation Labs/Championship, Impact Hub's Global Accelerate 2030 program, and an Executive Coach for the UN/UNICEF. She's on the board of the International Coaching Federation NY Chapter. Some of her coaching certifications and current work also include: Hogan Behavioral Assessment Systems, Consultant Certification Stanford School of Medicine's Compassion Cultivation Training Certification Selected for 8-member UN's Humanitarian Coaching Network, Executive program Nalanda Institute's Certificate II Program in Contemplative Psychotherapy