The mission behind
AwakeTeams
Our Story
AwakeTeams trains teams together to create a new culture of practices that increase engagement over time.
Through a team learning model and curriculum, trust-building, effective communication, and productive collaboration skills are developed and measurably improved over time.
The team approach increases program engagement, allows for peer learning, and reveals blind spots through anonymous peer assessment. Each teammate is accountable for their own and the team's performance, so the team is encouraged to model and teach strong points and learn from others on weak points.
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Our Team
Leadership development, data science, psychology, software engineering, AI, and startup experts
Laura C. Wells, MBA
Laura has trained leaders in emotional intelligence at organizations including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Kaiser Permanente. She also led Marketing at the nonprofit Brain & Behavior Research Foundation where she learned about neuroplasticity and human potential for behavior change. Prior to that she worked internationally in Fortune 100 CPG companies as a brand manager.
Paul van der Laken, PhD
Paul’s PhD is in People Analytics, with a focus on the application, usage and deployment of statistical and algorithmic techniques in the HR domain. He has been leading and managing innovation and data analytics teams at multinational companies, including Mars and Royal Dutch Shell. Paul also teaches professionals in effective data science deployment.
Laura Isela Hazlett, PhD
Laura has a PhD in Social Psychology from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab at UCLA. Her expertise is in understanding how positive social emotions, such as gratitude and social warmth, affect our brains and bodies. Laura is now interested in developing interventions that cultivate these emotions.
Kristen M Lee, MA
Kristen is a PhD student in Health Psychology at UCLA where she conducts research at the intersection of social connection, health behaviors, and wellbeing. Her work considers the broader social context as well as social-emotional factors (e.g., sense of belonging) that promote or inhibit positive behavior change.
Luigi Maria Fierro, MBA
Luigi, Head of People & Culture at Clarity AI and former Head of of HR Strategy and People Analytics at ING, leads the HR strategic agenda globally with focus on developing people as well as advanced analytics solutions. Previously he worked with McKinsey & Co. for 10 years, where, among many other things, he contributed to the development of the Organizational Health Index.
Rahul Goel, MS
Rahul is a tech lead manager at Google Bard where he is leading modeling efforts at Bard Extensions. Prior to that Rahul was a modeling Lead at Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Rahul is one of the leading voices in the field of LLMs with expertise in Generative AI and Dialogue systems.
Mads Lillelund, MBA
Mads has 20+ years of C-suite experience in high-tech markets. He has led companies through massive product transformations with a focus on disaggregated, virtualized, and cloud native software solutions and has built high performance teams and led the exits for several firms.