About Laura Berger
Laura Berger, MCC, CEBC coaches exceptional leaders. She is a columnist at the Forbes Coaches Council, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and bestselling author while serving as Trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and The Conference Board.
Laura is a certified executive coach and founder of Berdéo Group featured on ABC, CBS, CNBC, US News and World Report, Yahoo Finance, Self Magazine, and podcasts across the globe. She utilizes evidence-based techniques such as neuroscience, emotional intelligence (EQ-i), and high-touch, informative behavioral interviews to provide insight into clients’ strengths and opportunities.
Her coaching style collaboratively accompanies clients to realize those priceless, invisible truths that lie in plain sight every day. From there, she and her clients work through practical methods to cope with, remove and often transform those barriers into invaluable opportunities. She proves the tangible success of all her coaching engagements by actively measuring and reporting value and coaching ROI (C-ROI). A qualified practitioner of emotional intelligence and conversational intelligence, she has spent 20+ years counseling leaders at enterprises such as Dell Technologies (VMware), Lyft, The Walt Disney World Company, NBC Universal, Quarles & Brady, Fox Rothchild LLP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Volvo, Smurfit Kappa, Leo Burnett Worldwide, American Hospital Association, ChenMed, US Med, JenCare, Anthem, JP Morgan Chase, New York Life, Brown & Brown, University of Louisiana Systems, NCCI Holdings Inc, Publicis Group, and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Her twenty-year journey in executive coaching made clear she would expand her organic calling—to enable, improve, and empower leaders toward their best actions—into the arena of government and public policy. In October 2020, Laura Berger became a Trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and The Conference Board. This membership puts Laura on the frontlines of breaking public policy decisions, bringing a corporate perspective to policy recommendations delivered to Washington. What’s more, she is privy to a unique and rare understanding of economic policy that enables her Client leaders’ solid thinking and better aligns them on the global stage. She currently serves on the Climate, the Environment & Energy Task Force and Women in Corporate Leadership Committees.
Laura keynotes extensively at admired organizations including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Volvo Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Women Corporate Directors, International Women’s Forum and, Society for Human Resource Management. As an in-demand speaker, travel enthusiast, and avid animal advocate, her clients happily invite her back to engage, inspire and move their participants to action.
Certified by the International Coach Federation as a Master Certified Coach (MCC), an Executive Forum leader at Women’s Edge, and a committee member of International Women’s Forum and Paradigm for Parity, Laura actively utilizes her extensive network and span of influence to enable those she serves blast through their speed limits at work and give of themselves in life. Laura is co-author of two books, Fall in Love Again Every Day, and bestseller Radical Sabbatical.
Laura is a visiting guest speaker at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University. She is a C-IQ (Conversational Intelligence) Enhanced Skills Practitioner, Emotional Intelligence- EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 B-Level Qualified Practitioner, Pearman Personality Integrator Qualified Practitioner, Professional Certified Coach, and The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles Practitioner.
She is an inspirational speaker and has extensively served as a forum panelist on topics such as how to negotiate like a woman and as the keynote speaker at multiple venues including Merrill Lynch, Strategy& (PwC), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the National Association for Professional Women, Inspiration University and National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). As an in demand speaker, her clients happily invite her back to engage, inspire and move their participants to action. She is co-author of two books, Fall in Love Again Every Day and bestseller, Radical Sabbatical. Browse LinkedIn for more.
Why Us
“Theory without practice is foolish, practice without theory is dangerous.” – Chinese Proverb
Our approach is evidence based—guided by researched models in accordance with International Coaching Federation’s standards of conduct and ethical guidelines. And, our clients just love us!
How do the most effective companies and their leaders manage with strength at peak levels? It’s simple—they operate with awareness and intention. Helping to create such awareness and intention requires a different approach to coaching.
What makes Berdéo Group different? All services and programs focus on a behaviour-based approach. In otherwords, thoughts and ideas inside a person’s mind have significant influence on an individual’s behaviors. Using positive and humanistic psychology, we work together to figure out the actions you need to take and the practical changes you need to make in your everyday professional life to overcome the challenges that we have identified.
Mission, Vision, and Values
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” —Japanese proverb
Mission
We enable clients to explore and utilize their charisma and virtues to elevate themselves to greater possibilities.
Vision
- Freedom to chart and follow their personal and professional aspirations
- The courage to recognize and leverage their own strengths and acknowledge weaknesses
- The focus to create relationships necessary to achieve personal enjoyment and reach their goals
- To be the catalysts for positive and real change in organizations and the world
- To “pay it forward” and make a difference in society
Berdéo Group’s clients emerge with new-found strength to accelerate and advance the constructive priorities of humanity in the world.
Values
Openness
We are open-minded, genuine and unassuming. We are open source collaborators—direct and to-the-point to drive greater self-awareness in all areas of life.
Possibility (Discovery)
The greatest possibilities lie in the impossible. Advancing possibility is the essence of great leadership.
Clarity
We engage in fearless inquiry to challenge our clients to discover new and innovative opportunity. Our clients emerge with a clearer sense of what “is” and where they want to go.
Action
We help clients objectify and drive through self-limiting thoughts utilizing real and actionable solutions.
Perseverance
Our partnership with our clients in a safe and confidential environment inspires self-understanding and a trust in their own ideas with willingness to stay the course toward success.