Media/Partners
Laura Howard West
About Laura
Downloadable Press Photos
Press Release (Word doc)
Joyful Business Guide Fact Sheet (Word doc)
Joyful Business Guide Photo and Caption (Word doc)
Media Coverage/Publications
Simply Home Magazine
A resource for women starting a home business; nationally published; feature article "Create Your Own Success Guide" (March/April 2008, view digital version)C
hoice Magazine
Professional Coaching Magazine; nationally published; feature article on Joyful Business Guide (Oct/Nov 2007, PDF)
Motto Magazine
Creating Passion, Purpose & Prosperity;
nationally published magazine; contributing writer
including Rituals for a Better Life (April 2007, PDF)
Connections Magazine
Industry magazine for Association of Image Consultants; contributing writer
Inside Gwinnett Magazine
Local Atlanta publication; contributing writer for 2 years
Internet TV, Radio, and Podcasts
BlogTalk Radio, "Creating Your Business Attraction Plan,", Laura interviewed by Melanie O'Kane on MODCOM Radio
Listen now: (it's a 1 hour program)
BlogTalkRadio , "The Art of Joyful Business," Laura Interviewed by Barbara Giamanco on the Wow Women's Series
Profitability TV , "The Myths of Business Plans," Laura featured on Ruth King's program "The Ugly Truth about Small Business"
Speaking Experience
- International Coach Federation – Annual Conference
- Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) – Annual Conference
- Georgia Coach Association
- International Coach Federation – Virtual Community
- Co-Active Network – special interest groups
- CoachU – special interest groups
- New England Chapter – International Coach Federation
- Women in Engineering Professional Organization
- North Point Community Church – IT Team Program
- Atlanta Gas Light Resources
- Trammel Crowe Property Management
- SoulWorks! Apply Spiritual Prosperity Principles in the Workplace
- Love Your Life Series – monthly workshops at Barnes & Noble
- Eva Gregory’s Monthly Attraction Guest Expert
- Numerous workshops, teleclasses, conference presentations over the last 20 years
Samples of Past Workshops, Speaking, Training Topics
- 7 Entrepreneur Success Skills for Image Consultants
- 7 Entrepreneur Skills for Success in Your Corporate Career
- Success As You Like It
- Coaching Tools for Managers
- Packaging Your Excellence into Workshops and Teleclasses
- Visioning Workshops
- Joyful Business Journey
Suggested Speaking Topics
7 Success Strategies Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know
- It’s not about working harder, faster and more hours – it is about working smarter
- Think like a CEO with these strategies vs. an employee
- Entrepreneur thinking is critical inside a company
Create Your Virtual Support Team
- More people are growing home-based businesses and are working with freelance contractors who are located around the world
- Who is on your team? Who do you need on your team to be more successful?
- Attracting the right person for your team
Stop, Drop and Release your Negative Thinking
- It’s not always about working harder, faster and more hours to increase your success
- Your thoughts, beliefs, confidence support your business growth or hold it back
- Simple ideas for how to shift your energy and your beliefs so you’ll take action
Package your Passion into Workshops, Teleclasses and Programs
- There’s a goldmine of information and resources at your fingertips you can package into information, coaching, and mentoring products and programs
- What are 5 topics right in front of you?
- Hot Topics of all time – how you can customize your experience and tie into these long lasting trends
Making your Business “Easy, Natural & Fun”
- Yes, it’s possible!
- Create and leverage systems and technology for freeing up more time for the entrepreneur
- Greatest Efficiency Tool: Use your Joy – in the form of strengths, passions, flow
- 4 types of energy – leverage each form of energy for greater effectiveness, access to creativity and enjoyment
Demystifying the Business Plan – Creating a Heart-Based Business Guide for Entrepreneurs
- Millions of entrepreneurs have small businesses which require low startup capital – ie: they don’t need to create a business plan for the bank or investors
- What you focus on is what grow – creating a personal business guide is an effective tool for gaining clarity and alignemnt through harnessing your thoughts, ideas, dreams, actions
- Dare to make it inspirational and engaging – add color, photos, collage photos, quotes. Use markers and crayons! You’ll be inspired to use every day!
5 Myths of Successful Entrepreneur – Learn how to let go of them and Get on with your Success!
- Common mythology and beliefs about the successful entrepreneur holds business owners back
- Reframe myths into empowering beliefs to shift your perspective of success and the road to get there.