Laura WP

This is the script for a public lecture I gave at the American University of Rome in Rome, Italy on October 4, 2018. Since I ad-libbed a...

If you’re a people manager, eventually you’ll have to fire someone One of the things I had to do as an executive at multiple companies is...

In late 2015, Code2040 had been around for 3.5 years. We were doing well with a ton of momentum, early successes, and, after some tight...

About a year and a half ago, in the fall of 2017, I met up with a group of nine women from my Stanford business school class for the...

I was on a conference call the other day and we were discussing a talent selection process. At one point the topic of diversity came up....

Recently I was asked to “share a personal or professional experience mentoring someone you are particularly proud of and why” and this is...

Sometime in fall 2017 I made the decision that is was time for Code2040, the successful social enterprise I’d co-founded and run since...

A few weeks ago I got an email: I hope you don’t mind me connecting you with <PERSON>, who is now working for <CONSULTING FIRM>...

Yesterday I was a guest at Lightspeed Ventures. They asked me to come hold office hours for the startups in their summer fellowship...

One of my major projects at the Obama White House was to work with then US Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith to compile a resource for...

This post was originally part of a How I Hire series on LinkedIn and published at linkedin.com/in/laurawp on September 24, 2013. I run a...

A version of this post originally appeared as part of Acer's #MakeYourMark campaign on my Influencer Channel at linkedin.com/in/laurawp...

This post originally appeared on my Influencer Channel at linkedin.com/in/laurawp on April 26, 2018. Yesterday I spoke on a career panel...

This post was originally published at medium.com/@laurawp on August 8, 2017 as part of The Case Foundation's #FacesofFounders campaign....

This post was originally published at medium.com/@laurawp on July 17, 2016. The other day, I was flying back to San Francisco from a week...

This post was originally published on medium.com/@laurawp on March 4, 2016. On the last day of Black History Month, my husband gave me a...

This post originally appeared on medium.com/@laurawp on June 15, 2017. Earlier today, Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos...

This post was originally published on at medium.com/@laurawp on February 10, 2016 and is reproduced here with light edits. I give a lot...