Activate Your
Best Self
Activate Your
Best Self
We offer a unique brand of evidence-based inspiration that guides individuals and groups toward excellence.
Alignment Matters
We offer a unique brand of evidence-based inspiration that guides individuals and groups toward excellence.
Alignment Matters
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We offer a unique brand of evidence-based inspiration that guides individuals and groups toward excellence.
Alignment Matters
Organizational psychologist and consultant Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts
infuses cutting-edge social science research into transformational systems and
practices that align strengths, values and differences.
Our work with clients enhances authentic engagement and generates extraordinary outcomes in diverse workplaces and communities. We invite individuals and organizations to reflect upon their own practices, evaluate the extent to which they are maximizing their potential, and develop action plans for strategically aligning with their best selves. Our approach blends the philosophical with the practical. We validate the beauty and challenge of organizational life, while we guide our clients in co-creating the conditions in which they --- and those around them---can thrive. We value the preservation of dignity even in the face of life's hardships, through the cultivation, restoration, and maintenance of positive identities while building more equitable systems at work.
Dr. Laura Morgan Roberts is an innovative global scholar, speaker and consultant on the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities.
Her thought leadership in diversity, authenticity and leadership development has been recognized by LinkedIn (Top 10 Voice in Equity; 2020); ThinkList #Amplify (2020), Thinkers50 “On the Radar” (2018), and the Academy of Management. As the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Award for Societal Impact (2020), Laura has published over fifty research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strategically activating best selves through strength-based development, workplace equity and inclusion. Laura has co-edited three books: Race, Work and Leadership (2019 Axiom Business Book Award winner); Positive Organizing in a Global Society; and Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations. She has also self-published several poetry collections and The Alignment Quest™ Toolkit for Activating Best Selves. Laura is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and the Academy of Management Review, and is regularly quoted in global media outlets.
Laura currently serves as Professor of Practice at her alma mater, the University of Virginia, in the Darden School of Business. She earned a BA in Psychology (highest distinction & Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Virginia, and an MA and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, and Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. She has also taught organizational behavior, psychology, negotiations, group dynamics, diversity, leadership and career development at the University of Michigan, the Wharton School of Finance, Tuck, Georgia State University, UCLA Anderson, Simmons School of Management, and AVT (Copenhagen). Laura’s family roots are in Gary, Indiana and Washington, DC, and she is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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ALIGN STRENGTHS
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Discovering and Activating Your Best Self (two-part workshop including the Reflected Best Self Exercise*)
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Maximizing Value-Creation through Building Capability and Capacity
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Cultivating Positive Identities at Work
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Bringing out the Best in Others at Work
ALIGN VALUES
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Managing Your Visibility
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Leading Authentically
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Creating a Positive Professional Image
ALIGN DIFFERENCES
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Building High Quality Connections Across Difference
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Affirming differences through Mobilizing Identity-based Resources
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Equity: Flipping the Script for Learning
