Lauren St. Germain

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. I’m nearly two years into parenthood and often say that raising a little human is the fastest way to develop leadership skills. It’s forced me to become more self-aware, consider a perspective outside of my own, and has made me more mindful […]

Making the determination about what is and what is not appropriate is a judgment call that we can only make when we are honest with ourselves about who our audience is and what the context is for our meeting.

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. I am an “at home sourdough bread baker”. And to know me is to know that I love talking about bread just as much as I love baking and eating it. Think of me as your new “bread obsessed” friend. I started […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. The first post I wrote as a contributor to this blog was titled “Latimer in the Wild” and I wrote it as a new member of the team. At the time, I was spending hours upon hours learning the model and preparing […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. The cool thing about being a coach, is that sometimes you can impart wisdom on your clients and other times, they impart wisdom back on you. Recently, I was the recipient of some wisdom when a coaching client shared a key takeaway […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. Every year, our CEO and Co-Founder, Dean, shares his advice on how to give a great wedding toast.  This year, I told him I wanted to have a crack at providing some advice and started my making my own independent list of […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. If you’ve ever taken one of our workshops, you know this: we cover a lot of information. We challenge you with new mindsets, equip you with new toolsets and teach you new skillsets. And we do this intentionally. We want to share […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach for The Latimer Group. I was recently listening to an old episode of Brené Brown’s podcast, Unlocking Us, where she arrives at a major “a-ha” moment, live during the show.  And I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.  Moments before her big realization, […]

Recently, I have been thinking about how critical it is for me to start my day with a positive attitude and I reflected on this story and memory from a few years ago. It’s an example of how your attitude can impact your day and my hope is that it encourages you to be intentional […]

This post was written by Lauren St. Germain, Facilitator and Coach at The Latimer Group. I love Winnie the Pooh. So much so that I’ve got a collection of quotes from his stories by A. A. Milne on the coffee table in my living room. It’s a little green book called Pooh’s Little Instruction Book and I […]