Speaking
Laura Kray is a distinguished keynote speaker who addresses local, national, and global audiences, challenging conventional wisdom on topics such as women’s leadership advancement and the transformative power of growth mindsets.
Her speaking engagements span diverse organizations, from the Women’s Dermatologic Society and Professional BusinessWomen of California to global entities like Grupos Argos and the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs.
Beyond keynote addresses, Laura conducts specialized workshops on win-win negotiations and leading high-impact teams for a wide array of organizations. Her client portfolio includes leading technology companies like Google, Intel, and Adobe; major corporations such as Wells Fargo and Chevron; government facilities including Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories; and various professional associations and educational institutions. Laura is also an experienced expert witness, with an interest in legal cases related to workplace disputes.
Praise for Laura Kray
“Speaking from her UC Berkeley office, Kray teaches at the business school and is one of the nation’s foremost experts on gender in the workplace. Kray has about a dozen studies in the works on every aspect of power, especially cutting-edge research on the kind of power that might better suit women. If you want to understand how the study of power is evolving, you speak to Kray. She’s mined every concept of power that’s been raised, analyzed, and argued about during the last half century or so. Offering up mountains of information in a warm conversational tone, she tells us something that feels central to our pursuit: ‘Power is a social force,’ she continues, ‘and it likely has something to do with the power to effect change.’
Power TO versus Power OVER.
“Women like Professor Kray, who, instead of examining power through a traditional, hierarchical, hagiographic lens, are also considering the merits of power to rather than power over, and status. They are developing our nation’s future CEOs at America’s top business schools, and writing the books that politicians the world over will read.”
From The Power Code: More Joy, Less Ego. Maximum Impact for Women (and Everyone), by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, Harper Collins, 2023.