About Lauren

“It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”

Seneca, The Stoic Philosopher

My father died in 2011 just shy of 60 years old.

While his life was shorter that he hoped, it was one he lived fully.

And it planted a question into my mind that was life-changing.

Was I living life fully? Was I living for what mattered most?

I had spent a decade in executive search, where I got really good at answering strategic and tactical career questions.

By all accounts, I was “successful”.

But I wasn’t FEELING that way.

I was exhausted and stressed. And afraid-- both of staying in the same function for the next 30 years, and, paradoxically, doing something else.

I knew I needed something more. And that thought terrified me. After all, recruitment was what I knew.

Questions like ‘what would I do?’ and ‘where do I even start?’ had me frozen in place lacking the confidence to take a step out of my comfort zone.

Then it occurred to me…

Maybe my definition of success needed to be rethought.

Maybe I didn’t need to start over. Maybe all I needed to do was re-examine what success was for ME.

The breakthrough came when I realized I could use my existing experience in executive recruitment to help people create more fulfilling lives both inside and outside their careers.

That’s when I created my Wayfinding Program.

The Wayfinding Program draws from positive psychology, coaching and design thinking to uncover insights and strategies to make your next chapter the best one yet.

My training and accreditations include:

Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaches

Federation

Applied Positive Psychology

Practitioner through The Flourishing Centre in New York.

Formerly Certified Coach in Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

My work fuels my life. Here are some tidbits about who I am outside of work.

I spend my leisure time cooking, being in nature, and playing Mahjong with good friends. I live in Toronto with my husband and two children.
The pursuit of meaning fascinates me. At McGill University, I studied how people create meaning through culture and religion.
After university, I bicycled across Canada with The Otesha Project to inform and inspire others to take action on climate change.
I'd like to become proficient in canning tomatoes, but I can't stand the mess in the kitchen.

You’re way too smart to stay this miserable. If you’re done letting work define you and you’re ready to build a life that actually feels good, send an email with the subject "CROSSROADS" to info@laurenmalachcoaching.com

We'll set up a 30-minute complimentary phone call. No pressure, no sales on this call. The goal is to hear more about what you're wrestling with.

At the end of that call, if we both feel we're a good fit, we can set up another brief call to discuss the scope of the engagement.