Why Audiences Connect with
Lauren Wu
Lauren Wu challenges audiences to think differently about leadership, success, and the systems that shape our work and lives. Drawing from her experience as an attorney, healthcare executive, and advocate, she brings a thoughtful perspective that blends professional expertise with personal insight.
What makes Lauren's presentations so powerful is her ability to connect complex issues such as accessibility, workplace culture, technology, and belonging to everyday leadership decisions. She invites audiences to move beyond assumptions and consider how organizations can create environments where people contribute at their best without sacrificing their wellbeing.
Lauren's speaking style is reflective, engaging, and deeply authentic. She asks the kinds of questions that stay with people long after the event ends, helping leaders rethink how they define strength, performance, and success in a rapidly changing world.
Audiences leave inspired, challenged, and equipped with practical ideas for building more inclusive, resilient, and human-centered workplaces.
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See Lauren in Action
Featured Presentation:
Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy
As work continues to evolve, leaders must rethink how organizations support people whose capacity changes due to health, caregiving responsibilities, disability, or life circumstances. In this thought-provoking presentation, Lauren explores how empathy, accessibility, and AI can work together to reduce barriers, support contribution, and create workplaces where more people can succeed. Audiences leave with practical strategies for designing work that is both inclusive and sustainable.
About Lauren Wu
Lauren Wu, Esq., CIPP/US, is a keynote speaker, attorney, and former healthcare privacy executive who helps organizations rethink leadership, accessibility, and workplace design in an era of rapid change.
For more than a decade, Lauren held senior leadership roles in healthcare and life sciences organizations, including Evidation Health, Roche Molecular Solutions, and Genomic Health (now Exact Sciences). Her work focused on privacy, regulation, ethics, and the often-unseen systems that shape how organizations operate and who bears the cost of success.
Following a significant health event that required her to step away from her executive career, Lauren gained a new perspective on work, leadership, and human capacity. Today, she challenges leaders to move beyond endurance-based models of success and create systems that allow people to contribute, belong, and thrive.
Lauren is a writer and speaker on leadership, ethics, accessibility, and technology. She serves on the board of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), has taught at Northwestern University School of Law, and is the author of forthcoming children's books on privacy and digital literacy.
Website: www.heartledleadership.org
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