Lauren Zander

Lauren Zander is the co-Founder and Chairman of The Handel Group, an international corporate consulting and private coaching company. Concerned with the issues of global warming and human impact on the environment, Zander held the prestigious post of Earth Fellow at the UN Development Program’s Global Environment Facility. During this time, she also began exploring personal development education. She signed on at one of the country’s first personal development corporations, where she coached individuals and led seminars daily. Her coaching methodology was successful with her private clients and she later developed a coach-training program to school other would-be coaches in the techniques of the Handel Method, which led to the creation of The Handel Group.

With nearly two decades of experience and a client list which includes hundreds of individuals, groups, entrepreneurs, couples, families, and executives at BASF, Sony BMG, NYU Medical Center, and The New York Times Company, The Handel Group guides people through their most challenging and vulnerable stages in life. Through an engaging, edgy and truthful conversation, which first confronts and then inspires, Lauren is able to help people strip away the psychological or emotional burdens that hold them back.

One of Lauren’s most ambitious dreams was to impact higher education by creating a curriculum that addresses how a person can lead a powerful, fulfilling and happy life through a focus on Personal Integrity™. Toward that end, Lauren is currently in her fourth year teaching a popular and groundbreaking course at MIT called Designing Your Life. The Education Division of Handel Group is growing and is now implementing courses at at Stanford, NYU, and Rutgers with more to follow.

Lauren recently had the honor of moderating a roundtable for the White House Office of Social Innovation at Stanford University, and has been a featured expert in the New York Times, the BBC, the Joan Hamburg Show-WOR, Forbes Magazine, and Marie Claire and writes a monthly Health News column for Bottom Line Magazine, as well as the weekly “Coaches Corner” column for Businessweek. She is currently filming a pilot for a new television show called "Life Coach" for A&E and is completing her first book on weight loss and body image. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband of 10 years and her three wonderful children, ages 8, 7 and 2.

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