Welcome to Parachute Coaching. We're thrilled you're here.

At Parachute, we're focused on helping you get what you want when it comes to careers, confidence, and leadership. Whether you're still figuring out what you want to be when you grow up, leaning into your new leadership position, or committed to shoring up your self-confidence, Parachute has you covered. Want to learn more? You can sign up for a free initial consultation!

Lauren Laitin, Principal

Lauren Laitin is an accomplished leadership coach and facilitator. Building on her 20-year career in the public and private sectors, Lauren leverages her experience as a litigator and strategic advisor to help organizations and their leaders cultivate workforce culture, guide leadership visioning, and promote effective communication. Described by workshop participants as a “phenomenal facilitator” who “pushes us in constructive ways to think deeper,” Lauren is known for her direct style, keen insight, and ability to create camaraderie across teams and groups. To date, Lauren has coached more than 1,000 individuals and facilitated hundreds of team trainings and company-wide workshops, partnering with senior leaders and corporate teams at Lyft, Slack, Tesla, Google, Oracle, Graham Holdings Company, Mothership Strategies, GE, Mintz, Skadden, Earthjustice, and the Clinton Foundation. 

A champion of women’s leadership initiatives, Lauren is a founding guide at Chief, a VC-backed women’s leadership program, where she guides C-suite participants through a bespoke, cross-industry, cross-functional cohort experience. Lauren also serves as lead facilitator and content consultant for Strive (now FranklinCovey) and regularly advises in-house Learning & Development experts on instructional design, sales, and product development. Lauren previously practiced law in the DC office of Skadden, a top multinational law firm, where she represented individuals and corporations in complex tax matters. Prior to Skadden, Lauren was an organizational leadership specialist and analyst at the National Security Agency.

B.A. from Columbia University
M.P.A. from George Washington University
J.D. from American University, summa cum laude
M.C.C. Master Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation

The Parachute Story

My first assignment for my first class as an undergrad at Columbia was to write an essay about one word that describes me. Parachute was my word: open, adventurous, and colorful. 

Those qualities have stuck with me through several long years as an analyst in the intelligence community (a time when I couldn't be very open), law school, fast-paced years in the hallways, offices and conference rooms of a top law firm, and then the brick-exposed walls of a start-up law firm, and now to you.  Along the way, I traveled a bunch, made countless friends, colleagues, and mentors, logged hours on the phone, writing emails, and yes, even letters to stay in touch.  Most importantly though, I met my husband, and became a mother to two vivacious daughters.   

I was introduced to coaching shortly after returning to the law firm after maternity leave.  I attended a presentation on work-life balance where a captivating coach gave a 10 minute presentation, and I knew that in time, that would be me. 

Over the next six years, I toyed with the timing, but I continued to read, research, talk, crave, and dream about it.  I found the right time, and went for it.  Since launching Parachute, I've coached hundreds of leaders and teams. Just like me, every client has her own story. What's yours? 

I look forward to hearing about the words that describe you, your path, and what keeps you reading, researching, talking, craving, dreaming, and ultimately doing. And if you haven't figured it out yet, well, then we can do that too.