Hi, I’m Lauren Houston

"I know what it feels like to have a life that looks exactly right, and to still have a question you cannot quite name."

For most of my career, I was the person who made things happen, tell me what you need and it will get done. As Director of Corporate Governance and Development in the Oil and Gas sector, I evaluated programs, facilitated learning, worked with international governments and set up our international offices and spent years watching what actually helped people grow and I always knew what simply looked good in a boardroom presentation. I was good at what I did. I was proud of it.

Six years ago, I made the decision to step out of the market to raise my son. It was the right decision and it was also quietly disorienting in ways I did not expect. The structure I had built my identity around, the title, the team, traveling around the world, the daily proof of my own competence was just gone. And in the space that followed, I found myself face to face with a question I had never really had to answer:

"Who am I when I am not being useful to someone else?"

That question led me to Suzy Welch's Becoming You Intensive at NYU Stern. Three days of the most clarifying work I had ever experienced. Not inspiration, clarity.

For the first time, I could see my values named and ranked. I could see where I had been living around them instead of from them. I could see why certain paths had felt energizing and others had quietly drained me for years. I walked out knowing exactly what I wanted to build next. And I wanted to help other people find what I had found. Purpose.

I enrolled in rigorous ICF-aligned coach training through the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, and I am currently pursuing my ICF ACC credential as well as working towards being certified as a Becoming You Practitioner. I wanted to build a practice to sit at the intersection of both the structured self-knowledge the assessments provide, and the deep inner work that helps people actually act on what they learn.

Living in Tulsa, OK with my husband and son, I love to travel as much as possible. Iceland specifically has my heart. I continue to serve on several non-profit boards, including the American Song Archives, which houses the Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan Archives/Centers, I work with several local non-profits and love giving back to the community I live and work in.