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My work with The Genuine has been simply life-altering. Through my experiences with [The Genuine’s] team and a network of other social impact pioneers, I’ve been able to deeply reflect on and build essential tools to recharge my purpose-driven career. I highly recommend Lara’s practice!”

“As I continue on my path of identifying meaningful aspiration for the 5th life stage, The Genuine helped to clarify the experiences and associations that align with my deepest motivations and unique capabilities.”

“Having worked with Lara as a co-facilitator of The Genuine, I find her to be a true servant leader dedicated to giving her best self to this work so that participants can hone the intellectual, emotional and spiritual disciplines necessary for a purpose-filled life. I consider Lara to be a purpose pioneer who respectfully builds upon on the wisdom of great thinkers in the field; both past and present.”

“Lara and I crossed paths when I was at a transition time and I was so grateful that she was able to serve as such a thoughtful and valuable sounding board. She helped me set and achieve goals and our work together evolved really naturally as my needs and situation changed. I’m eternally grateful for the incredibly useful, informed perspective she shared at a key moment in my life and career. [Lara] “gets it” (all of “it”) in a way few people do which makes collaboration easy, fun and efficient. I’d work with her again in a heartbeat and I enthusiastically recommend her to friends and colleagues.”

“Lara is an excellent coach, an active listener, and an accountability partner. She pushed me professionally and personally, and her astute perspectives helped me recognize patterns. [Lara] helped me not only recognize but also utilize the power I have. ”

“Working with Lara as a coach helped me clarify and integrate my human aspirations with my work practices. Having that time, and her style of questioning and reframing, ultimately caused not just my work to be more productive (I came in wanting to focus on time management, I thought, but realized that really the core issue for me was more strategic than that) but for me to feel clear and whole about what mattered to me in my work, how that showed up in day to day practice, and how I’d already made more progress than I realized in integrating my personal and professional goals. ”

“Lara Galinsky worked with me and my organization, Cycle Connect, on advising for our strategic plan, facilitating a board workshop, and then on executive coaching. Her extensive background in working with social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the earlier days, proved invaluable. She clearly understood the problems that we were experiencing, or about to encounter, and was able to then subsequently to further connect with me as an entrepreneur leading through such challenges. While Lara’s experience proved beneficial to naturally understanding where I might be, she then took it a step further to ensure that she understood my situation and me as an individual. She embodies coaching people where they’re at.

What’s great about Lara is that she truly pushed me to think critically about what I was doing, why I was doing it, and how that would affect future scenarios.”

“Lara was an instrumental support in our Foundation’s inaugural partner convening. From closely collaborating with me to plan a meaningful agenda to thinking through every detail of the event to facilitating the day-of with calm and grace, Lara was a true partner and every aspect of working with her was a pleasure. Her thoughtful, genuine approach to collaboration helped me clarify my own thinking and drew out answers to questions I didn’t know I had. With her help, our convening created a sense of community and belonging among our grantee partners; the feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive and many specifically shared that Lara was the best part!”

“Lara helped lead the efforts to establish the rubric for developing a creative and mission-oriented business plan for The Women’s Building of NYC. Lara brought to the table an incredible network of professionals in the social good space to inform critical research, ensured the many diverse stakeholders behind the project were heard and offered guidance to our project team as key design decisions were analyzed. In short, her unique skill of integrating research and data with a human and caring interpersonal approach resulted in an immensely valuable contribution to the beginnings of The Women’s Building.”