Clients - Sontag Associates

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. She brings insight to organizational dynamics and can quickly get to the root of client issues.

Lauren helps clients during transitions, rocky patches and day-to-day job performance. 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 with empathy, positivity and decisiveness.

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, where several of her clients are now CEOs and members of the C-suite. She has helped these professionals develop their teams, navigate difficult management and board situations and further hone their personal brands as they have continued to grow in their careers.

What Clients Say

“Finally, after 30 years, an executive coach who actually adds value! Lauren’s extensive background, insightful wisdom and empathetic style produced the single best coaching experience I have ever had. One of the many things that made her special was that she provided insights and advice that I could actually action and use…. and do so right away!”

“Like many other businesses, the urgency of the moment had taken our attention away from our long term goals and strategy, working with Lauren helped me and the teams break away from this plateau and refocus our priorities.”

“Lauren quickly gets to the root of challenges and will empathetically tell you what you need to hear in order to make progress against them. She helped me achieve more focus around my longer-term goals while also helping me identify some tactical changes I could make in my day-to-day work to make better use of my time and my mental disk space. I benefitted both personally and professionally from working with Lauren.”

"I have worked with Lauren Sontag at multiple points since 2006. The benefits of our work are too numerous to list. But a few include navigating challenging workplace dynamics, coaching through a major career transition, developing my leadership skills and manager development. Lauren's counsel and the work we do has had a direct benefit to my career goals, and I do not think I would be in the position I am in without the work we did."

"Over the last decade, Lauren has been an incredible partner and enabler in developing effective leadership skills for me and my team."

“Lauren has helped me elevate my career beyond what I ever thought was possible. She was hugely instrumental in unlocking the potential in me. She did that through first understanding me as a person and then as an executive. This approach helped me to create authenticity and a North Star to achieve truly outsized outcomes.”

“Lauren’s clearly a seasoned, successful executive – evident in how expertly she guided me through my own career hurdles. Great focus on the why and how of strategic self-advocacy as a woman navigating a male-dominated world.”

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.

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.