Lauren Sontag offers honest, practical and actionable insights that help corporate leaders excel in their careers, now and in the future.
Lauren’s approach combines straightforward counsel, a laser sharp identification of core issues and a rigorous plan to achieve goals that together help each client leverage their strengths and navigate their futures.
ABOUT SONTAG ASSOCIATES
Lauren Sontag provides executive coaching for C-suite and other corporate executives, high ranking leaders and emerging leadership-level professionals. In her 30 years of business experience, 20 years alone in executive coaching, she has developed groundbreaking methods for building teams and developing people.
Her firm focuses on executive coaching and talent management. Having personally taken part in several mega-mergers, she is especially skilled in helping her clients navigate change and excel during times of turbulence. She has a sub-specialty helping co-heads work together more productively.
Lauren supports clients with techniques that help them optimize business results, manage the unique challenges of keeping their teams productive and focused, and continue to pursue the strategies that enable them to excel in their careers.
Our Services
Executive coaching
Lauren's one-on-one executive coaching helps senior leaders reach their potential. The process is customized for each client, starting with 360 degree feedback analysis that identifies each individual's strengths, challenges and core issues. She is deeply committed to helping her clients define their path forward, fine-tune their communication skills and build a more cogent personalized brand.
Talent management
Lauren's long standing relationships with corporate clients gives her insight into each company's unique business succession needs. She works closely with senior leaders to ensure strong pipelines, then works with potential candidates to shape their career goals and map pathways to acquire skills they need to qualify for important roles within their companies.
A Data-Driven Approach
Lauren leverages data and deep business experience to provide clients with a profound understanding of their leadership opportunities. She quickly gets to the core of complicated issues to develop results-driven strategies.
Customized 360º feedback maximizes success
Lauren’s 360º feedback assessment tools are tailored to each client and are designed to create powerful insights into each person’s potential for career growth and development. She conducts comprehensive interviews with leadership, peers, and others to gain perspective into each client’s work style, competencies, and performance. Customization of both data collection and analysis results in an optimal roadmap for success.
Proven talent management ensures strong pipelines
Lauren offers talent management tools and techniques shaped to the needs of her clients, helping them map their personal development journey and address the skills needed to progress in their careers. Her data-driven approach enables companies to analyze and plan for their long-term talent requirements.
The Client Experience
A distinguishing factor in Lauren’s career is that she has been a successful executive and board member herself. That experience is reflected in her practical and straightforward approach.
Working with Lauren is a no-nonsense, no-holds barred experience that gives her clients long-term results and true ownership of their futures. People appreciate her candor, can-do approach and ability to hold difficult, yet necessary conversations.
Our Clients
Lauren’s client roster includes financial services firms encompassing banks, hedge funds and asset managers; publishers; advisory firms; technology organizations; and other small and large companies. She has had decades-long relationships with a number of these companies.
Clients find that working with Lauren is a no-nonsense, no-holds barred experience that yields long-term results and true ownership of their futures
CEOs
Lauren's work with CEOs often involves helping them shape the culture of their organizations and function more effectively with key stakeholders, including other members of their executive team, employees, board members, investors and clients.
Senior Leaders
In her work with executives, Lauren focuses on helping these individuals maximize business contributions, influence colleagues and develop their teams. She also partners with them to evaluate career options and navigate their organizations to gain whatever support they may need to be successful.
Technical Leaders
Lauren partners with senior quants and lead developers at premier hedge funds where technical mastery is just the starting point. She helps them navigate the transition from Architect to Leader, a shift that requires building credibility with discerning peers, directing sophisticated technical teams, and securing buy-in for cutting edge initiatives. Her coaching provides the framework to increase strategic influence and executive presence while maintaining a relentless focus on analytical excellence.
Co-heads of businesses
Building trust and delineating responsibilities can be key to these relationships. Lauren can help co-heads clearly define their individual jobs, learn to work together in areas that overlap and develop techniques for co-managing staff effectively.
Individuals transitioning into new roles
Whether an individual is being prepared for a role of increased responsibility, or simply changing jobs, it is important to help them reframe expectations and understand and acquire new skills; new roles frequently require adjusting leadership styles to maximize success.
Meet Lauren
Experience & Expertise
Lauren has more than 30 years experience as both an independent management consultant and as an executive at JP Morgan Chase, where she was responsible for the global development of people. She worked with the executive team to drive the growth of key talent, and was central to succession planning, career planning and leadership development.
In her role as an executive coach she has advised people in over 20 companies, many of which are in the fortune 500. Her deep experience provides unique insight into organizational dynamics. She has a straightforward approach to consulting, earning her clients’ trust and respect.
Lauren holds a Ph.D. in Psychological Measurement & Testing from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. from Barnard College.
