About Laura Berger
Laura Berger, NACD.DC, MCC, is an executive coach and founder of Berdéo Group. She works with CEOs and senior executives when the stakes are high, and leadership dynamics are starting to interfere with execution, traction, or trust. Her clients are often navigating succession, enterprise transformation, executive team strain, role transition, or decision friction at the top.
What makes Laura’s work different is that she does not look at a leader in isolation. She reads the broader system around them — trust fractures, mixed agendas, blind spots, politics, and unspoken norms shaping what is possible. She helps leaders see what is quietly working against momentum, credibility, and trust, and then translate that insight into practical shifts that hold in real life.
Laura integrates evidence-based coaching, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and practical behavioral insight. She listens for what is not being said, pays attention to the micro-behaviors that shape trust and respect, and creates the kind of space where leaders can tell the truth quickly, see clearly, and work on what actually matters.
Laura is a Master Certified Coach, NACD Certified Director, and Trustee of The CEO Center at The Conference Board (formerly the Committee for Economic Development). She has advised leaders at organizations including The Walt Disney Company, JPMorgan Chase, Dell Technologies, Google, Brown & Brown, Titan America, Blue Cross of Idaho, Plus Power, Smurfit WestRock, Publicis Groupe, Deloitte, and ChenMed, often during high-visibility transitions, succession moments, and periods of enterprise strain.
“I coach CEOs and C-suite successors through the moment the room gets harder to read.”
Laura's work extends into the boardroom and the policy arena. As a Trustee of The CEO Center at The Conference Board and a member of its CEO Council, she leads discussions on board dynamics and executive committee succession and brings a business perspective to economic policy. She serves on the nonpartisan Committee for Democracy and Free Enterprise and has served on the Climate, Environment & Energy Task Force and the Women in Corporate Leadership Committee. That vantage point shapes her coaching. She understands how boards think about succession, oversight, and risk, and she helps leaders show up with the judgment those rooms expect. She also serves on the board of Veterinarians International.
She speaks frequently on leadership and governance, including "The Brains of the Boardroom: How to Drive an Effective Board," and has delivered keynotes for Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, PwC, Volvo Group, the Society for Human Resource Management, Women Corporate Directors, International Women's Forum, and the Grace Hopper Conference. She has been a guest speaker at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University.
Laura writes the Radical Sabbatical column for Psychology Today and is co-author of two books, Fall in Love Again Every Day and the bestselling Radical Sabbatical. Her assessment toolkit includes EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360, Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ), the Pearman Personality Integrator, and the Enneagram. She is a member of The Belizean Grove and the International Women's Forum.
Why Us
Berdéo Group is built around behavior under pressure. We do not stop at strategy, structure, or personality labels. We focus on what happens in the room when stakes are high: how decisions get made, how trust is built or eroded, how power is used, and how leadership patterns either strengthen execution or quietly work against it.
Our work is evidence-based and held to the International Coaching Federation's standards of conduct and ethics.
Why leaders choose Berdéo Group
Mission, Vision, and Values
We help leaders at the highest levels see and shift the patterns that shape trust, decisions, and momentum. Our work is grounded in four values: truthfulness, practicality, trust, and agency.