Trial By Fire- Laura Gassner Otting

<p>Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her <a href= "https://lauragassnerotting.com/speaking/">presentations</a> make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.</p> <p>She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing and mentoring others.</p> <p>Laura’s entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped shape <a href= "https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">AmeriCorps.</a></p> <p>She left a leadership role at the respected nonprofit search firm, <a href="http://www.imsearch.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Isaacson, Miller</a>, to expand the startup <a href="http://execsearches.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ExecSearches.com</a>. Laura also founded and ran the <a href="http://nonprofitprofessionals.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group</a>, which partnered with the full gamut of mission-driven nonprofit executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists. In 2015, Laura sold NPAG to the team that helped her build it, both because she was hungry for the next chapter and because she held an audacious dream of electing our nation’s first female president.</p> <p>Along the way, while serving on Hillary Clinton’s National Finance Committee, she was asked to do a TEDx talk which became so popular that it launched a speaking career. Laura has spoken across the United States and