Lauren Insley, Senior Consultant and Leadership Coach with Collaborative Thinking, LLC, brings over 20 years of experience as an organizational development consultant, leadership coach, and people strategy partner—helping leaders and organizations translate complex people challenges into practical, scalable solutions that improve engagement, performance, and organizational effectiveness. She draws on a research-based foundation in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and applied neuroscience to deliver science-informed approaches that stick.

As a leadership coach, Lauren partners with leaders at all levels to clarify priorities, leverage strengths, build resilience, strengthen leadership presence, and take meaningful action toward goals. Her coaching approach is rooted in contemporary neuroscience and is behavior-based, process-focused, and outcome-driven—grounded in deep listening, candid reflection, and practical strategies that help clients move through barriers and sustain progress.

As an Organizational Development Consultant, Lauren helps leaders and teams assess culture, systems, and ways of working—then co-design interventions that strengthen alignment, capability, and performance. Her work frequently includes organizational assessments and diagnostics, employee engagement strategy and action planning, human capital strategy and workforce alignment (e.g., clarifying roles, capabilities, and operating models needed to deliver on mission and business priorities), succession and workforce planning, leadership development, and change adoption—supported by strong measurement and evaluation practices.

Prior to joining Collaborative Thinking, Lauren built a broad consulting and leadership background spanning both public and private sectors. Her experience includes founding Leadership & Performance Innovations (LPI Consulting) and holding executive consulting and senior leadership roles with firms such as Suntiva and Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led organizational development, talent strategy, leadership development, and large-scale workforce initiatives. Across her career, she has partnered with leaders in 30+ client organizations—ranging from federal agencies to commercial companies—bringing a practical, data-informed approach to improving performance, culture, and leader effectiveness.

Lauren holds an M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a B.A. in Clinical Counseling Psychology. She maintains her Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coaching Federation and is certified in Brain-Based Coaching (NeuroLeadership Institute) and Resilient Leadership Coaching (Resilient Leadership, LLC).

Extended Training and Certifications

• Kirkpatrick Four Levels® Evaluation Certification (Bronze), Kirkpatrick Partners, LLC

• Hogan Assessment Certification, Hogan Assessment Systems, Inc.

• Emotional Intelligence Certification, TalentSmart

• Designing Learning, Association for Talent Development (ATD)

• Instructional Design for Performance Improvement, University of Southern California

• Building Motivation for Distance Learning and Classroom Courses, University of Southern California

• Instructional Design for Guided Experiential Learning, University of Southern California