Laura Blakeman, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Cortez, CO, US

Canmore, Alberta, Canada

• Launched a post-secondary institution dedicated to cultivating leadership capacities for socialimpact, working collaboratively with three co-founders.
• Lead design and delivery faculty for programming with a $1.3 million annual budget. Responsible for developing and managing course and program elements at the post-graduate level. Lead developmental coach and creative.
• Primary liaison with third-party vendors directly involved with offering services related to the online programs, and with strategic graduate and post-graduate partnerships across Canada and the United States.
• Lead design and faculty for Positive Deviants Fellowship with Canadian social innovators that includes land-based retreats, wilderness excursions, and remote learning.
• Engages in academic, peer-review, and for-public research and writing.

Durango, Colorado, United States

• Worked intensively over four months to audit the organizations core processes, leadership functions, governance structures, and financial systems.
• Took a systems approach, listening both deep and wide to various past and present constituencies including guides, staff, program participants, parallel organizations, and board members.
• Provided a comprehensive assessment of financial, organizational, and relational systems along with organizational design recommendations (governance), questions for the board to consider, and supporting materials.
• Currently working closely with newly formed leadership team to begin streamlining processes and systems to better align with mission and vision. Role includes budget management, strategic planning, fundraising.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

• Provides direct support to core leadership and faculty delivery teams in online course design and delivery. Lead advisor and programmer for the ‘Virtual Teaching Lodge’ initiative that will house all online programming.
• Develops distance learning policies and best practices in conjunction with program directors in a way that honours and centers indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being.

Colorado

• Specializes in crafting learning experiences for leaders and culture shapers that help to cultivate the capacities required to effectively navigate complexity. Uses an interdisciplinary skillset; arts, depth, and.
• Coaches and consults with leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, and social artists – both individually and in teams - from across the corporate and cultural sectors.

Global

Member of the Global Coaching Institute's Associate Coach team. Global Coaching Institute are leaders in accredited coach training, leading organisational transformation, and process-oriented coaching.

Banff

• Designed and facilitated integral leadership intensives and lead faculty for a social innovation fellowship that bridged the inner work of human development with the outer work of systems change. Brought arts-based.
• Designed an online learning program to support distance learning related to systems leadership and social innovation in partnership with a range social organizations and post-secondary institutions.
• Coached participants in-person and remotely using adult developmental theory for transforming meaning-making systems.

• Core faculty at Wanderlust festivals in the United States and Canada, instrumental in bringing innovative forms of mindful movement (yoga, meditation, hoopdance, and ritual dance) to mainstream audiences.
• Co-designed unique entertainment experiences for festival attendees through pop-up dance events, main stage performances (Wanderlust Spectacular), media (writing, video, social media) and collaborative productions..
• Liaised with thousands of festival participants, musicians, media partners, and creative partners.

Global

• Built an international dance company that specialized in circus, pyrotechnics, free-form, aerial, busking, and other forms of street entertainment.
• Regularly featured in both local and national media and appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal in 2012.
• Designed, produced and delivered annual dance festivals, online teacher trainings, and instructional videos that ran/sold profitably for years.
• Worked with large music and entertainment companies such as AEG Live, Peak Experience, and Madison House Entertainment to design unique experiences for festival attendees using the arts and movement. Engaged thousands.
• Taught at some of North America’s top centers for transformative learning including; the Esalen Institute, Omega Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Kalani Center, 1440 Multiversity and The Wanderlust Festival.
• Managed all aspects of the business - branding, marketing, accounting, program design and management, and client relations. Worked collaboratively with countless international partners.

Greater Denver Area

• Lead copywriter for brand communications initiatives for small and medium-sized Denver businesses. Specialized in web-based branding for green or eco-friendly companies.
• Worked directly with design teams to produce creative and strategic direction.
• Offered creative direction to clients directly in collaboration with the founder of the agency.

Doctor Of Philosophy In Psychology (Ph.D.), Psychology

Ph.D. in Psychology with an emphasis in the psychology of complexity leadership. My doctoral thesis explores the role of aesthetics in.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Psychology

Certificate In Growth Edge Coaching, Developmental Coaching

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Certificate In Developmental Coaching, Ecocentric Human Development

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Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations And Affairs