Meet Laurel Rutledge, CEO and Chief Navigation Officer™ at LKR Group LLC. Not your average coach – she’s your career, business and organizational strategy consultant and advisor with some super-deep coaching mixed in. 

With a background in in accounting, consulting, risk management, and HR, across multiple industries, Laurel is the secret sauce for AEC businesses seeking to optimize operations while creating the business and culture they wish to work in. Her AlignmentVisionAction© Framework, based on her nearly 30 years of corporate experience, is the model for connecting strategies to intentional actions leading to expected outcomes. As her entrepreneur, individual and corporate clients can attest, whether you are building a business, a career or a life, AVA© is the key.

Laurel holds an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, multiple certifications, and is a graduate of The Center for Houston’s Future Business/Civic Leadership Forum and of the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center’s Milestone Circles. When she isn’t work with clients or guesting on podcasts, you can find her reading, listening to podcasts or classic radio show, or working on playing a decent round of golf.