Martha Lasley

Martha Lasley is a founding partner of Leadership that Works, an organization that trains coaches, facilitators and visionary leaders. They custom-design programs to facilitate profound personal and organizational transformation. Since 1998, Leadership that Works has been teaching coaching, facilitation, leadership, and organization development. Coaching for Transformation is widely known as an ICF certified coach training program that deepens your cultural awareness and ignites transformation. Facilitation that Works is a certification program that helps you transform meetings and the people who attend them.

Martha has authored three compelling books: Coaching for Transformation; Facilitating with Heart; and Courageous Visions.

Martha’s experience includes:

• Coaching leaders and social change activists to develop compelling visions, improve interpersonal communications, bring spirit into team building, and develop a coaching culture.
• Supporting groups to transform conflict, develop mediation skills, listen with compassion and design a better future.
• Designing and delivering results-oriented leadership development programs and retreats that open the way to exciting opportunities and new perspectives.
• Facilitating organizational development, using Appreciative Inquiry and group process facilitation.
• Facilitating development of the partnership paradigm in strategic planning, Appreciative Inquiry summits, and change initiatives.

For ten years she taught and designed Capella University’s MBA courses:

• Developing and Coaching Others
• Leveraging Workplace Diversity
• Facilitating Change
• Leading Teams
• Negotiating for Results
• Professional Effectiveness

A pioneer in the coaching field, Leadership that Works has conducted research on the efficacy of coaching, through a research grant from the Kellogg foundation.