Hammer Leadership is an executive coaching firm that promotes leadership excellence through individual coaching and professional development programs. We work with motivated senior leadership teams, rising leaders and individuals seeking the advancement of leadership skills, emotional maturity, and professional effectiveness. Our clients learn to skillfully manage relationships with higher levels of clarity, responsibility, and courage. Hammer Leadership customizes all client engagements and accommodates groups of any size. Through the Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD) program, we offer half-day and full-day seminars, multi-month curriculum-based courses, and speaking engagements at company off-sites, retreats and conferences. All learning opportunities advance the skillful management of relationship and leadership challenges and participants learn strategies for positively influencing the overall health, growth, culture, and success of their organization. Executive coaching provides clients with the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of their own functioning, including how relationships are managed and challenges addressed. We help clients identify professional growth and development goals, formulate strategies and skillfully implement them. Lauren Hammer is the founder and principle of Hammer Leadership. She has been introducing new ways of thinking about leadership to senior level executives, rising leaders and owners of family firms and businesses since 2001. Lauren earned her Masters of Social Work and a Masters of Science in Management degrees from New York University.