Career Development
Accelerate your Career: Learn What Works & What Falls Flat
Dive into what makes you more successful in your role, company, future roles and more in your career.
Lauren Cooney
Founder & CEO, Spark Lab
Seattle
Lauren has twenty years of experience creating, building and leading high-growth teams, businesses, platforms and developer communities for multiple Fortune 500 companies including BEA Systems (now Oracle), IBM, Microsoft, Juniper, and Cisco Systems, where she has led product management, Open Source, product marketing, developer strategy and new business model creation. Her work has netted companies over $1B in revenue, hundreds of new clients and over a million developers. She's been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Business Insider & more, and is recognized as a top leader in the technology space.
Lauren recently founded Spark Labs. Spark Labs' goal is to improve diversity and keep women in the "pipeline" while accelerating their path to the C-Suite. Spark Labs offers executive coaching, leadership training, retention and inclusivity programs and a robust community for women looking to accelerate their career beyond the traditional corporate models and offerings. Clients are from Tesla, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Blue Cross, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealthcare Group, Facebook and more
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