Laura serves as the Lab’s Senior Director of Growth Initiatives, where she is responsible for expanding the Lab’s partnership capacity and driving growth across its key portfolios. Laura collaborates with funders, partners and Lab leadership to develop innovative initiatives that support economic mobility for U.S. workers and learners. For 15+ years, Laura has been dedicated to designing and launching solutions that create more skills-centric and data-driven education and workforce systems. Laura’s background includes leading talent sector strategy at Brighthive, where she directed go-to-market strategy, business development and sector partnerships for workforce and higher education customers.

She also led complex client engagements for data collaboration projects across workforce, post-secondary education, and skills domains. Laura brings deep experience with business development and strategy, partnerships, fundraising, consulting and communications across a range of roles at skills-centric organizations including The Hitachi Foundation, Opportunity@Work, Credential Engine, among others.

HOMETOWN: Amherst, Massachusetts

EDUCATION: Clark University

BACHELOR’S: BA in Political Science

MASTER’S: Master of Public Administration (MPA)

FAVORITE QUOTE: “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too”. – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

WHEN I’M NOT AT WORK I’M… being a mom to a precocious two-year old, traveling and exploring, experimenting with new recipes, or rewatching The Wire or The Sopranos for the millionth time.