Looking for an experienced Colorado facilitator or professional speaker skilled in interpersonal and online communication, teamwork, customer and workplace relationships?
Below is a sampling of what people have to say about Laura Lollar’s work:
Paint Brush Hills Metropolitan District, Colorado Springs CO
“The PBHMD Team had the pleasure of working with Laura (Benjamin) Lollar on its Teambuilding & Workplace Relationships Training this afternoon. Everyone on the team was engaged and benefitted from Laura’s training, but we are hungry for more. I really believe we achieved a milestone moment for our team. Laura covered a lot of ground in the two-hour session, but she was only able to scratch the surface. We feel that the team and the District would benefit from the opportunity for more in-depth training and interaction facilitated by Laura.” —Leon Gomes, Former District Manager
From Alice Crider’s “Inkwell” Coaching Group MasterClass Appearance:
“After Laura helped me improve the SEO on my own website, I invited her to teach a MasterClass for my community of writers and authors on SEO and how to help AI discover their websites and books.
Our group included everyone from published authors with established websites to aspiring writers who haven’t yet published or created an online presence. Laura skillfully met each person where they were, explaining complex concepts in clear, practical language and giving everyone actionable next steps they could implement right away.
Here are just a few comments from participants:
- “Great information in today’s MasterClass! I appreciated her layman’s terms for tech-ese and the practical next steps, no matter where we are in our process.”
- “The class and Laura’s SEO booklet are exactly what I need at this time in my writing life!”
I highly recommend Laura to any business owner, author, or entrepreneur who wants to expand their online visibility. She has a rare ability to make SEO understandable, approachable, and immediately useful. —Alice Crider, Colorado Springs, Colorado
From Fort Carson, Colorado, Directorate of Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (DFMWR) Executive Leadership Training and Development: “It was the best class we ever had at Fort Carson…we need you back!” —Sean Stewart, Director NAF Support Division at USAG Fort Carson, Colorado
From Junior Achievement’s National Leadership Conference:
- “Laura’s humor paired with her step-by-step toolkit made this workshop topnotch. I loved her real-world applications and how she connected everything to a personal example or story. I am glad I elected to attend THIS workshop!” —Ashley Adamson
- “Laura’s session helped me not only gain tools to communicate with the ‘Godzillas’ in my world, but see that I’m not alone.” —Tammy Bixby
- “Go for ‘No’ BLEW my mind!” —S.S.
- “I really enjoyed this session and feel it will seamlessly translate back to my office and be easily applicable. She weaved in humor and kept it fun! Loved it! —Anonymous
Feedback from OrthoAccel Team-building Retreat and Marketing Summit, Breckenridge, Colorado
“Fantastic on both fronts – personally and professionally, I feel like we have moved to the next level as a team thanks to your help and work with us. Great job facilitating. I wish we’d had more time for team building exercises. The Team Profile was one of the highlights. You had just the right touch – moving us forward when necessary, creating a great environment for idea sharing.” —Kathleen Malaspina, Former Chief Innovation Officer and VP, Marketing
“It will help me tremendously. The Team Profile was terrific. Wish we’d had more time for more team exercises and more activities. You are awesome! Loved it!” —Alexandra Mazzi
“Overall great experience! Personally got to know the team better and professionally established hard objectives for the next month. I wish we’d had more time for establishing core value and brand attitude. The team profile was very insightful. I would recommend it for a gap analysis. The Start/Stop/Continue exercise was very helpful for laying out short/long term objectives.” —Lucia Vespoli, Aldente Group
“It was fantastic. Loved the team building exercises. Wish we’d had more time for specific brand developing items/objectives. Most certainly I’d recommend the Team Profile. Would love to do this with our team. I wish we had more cross-functional team participation.” —Esenam Asembri
“Very well planned and executed! Learned so much about others and excited to move forward with TEAM! A lot of items were covered, but I think it would have been great to spend a few hours on communicating vision to broader organization —> brainstorm session. Yes, I’d recommend the Team Profile to others. The info was highly accurate and accompanying guidance documents are great resources. Laura is truly one of a kind! Knowledgeable, gracious and effective facilitator!” —Zaffer Syed, former Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs
“Personally, the individual profiles and a better understanding of colleagues helped me. Professionally, being able to communicate things that I previously wasn’t able to because of lack of platform. Wish we’d had more time for Next Steps and Future Planning. The Team Profile was spot on! I’d recommend it to others by saying Laura did a fantastic job of explaining how to benefit from knowing each others priorities. Laura is excellent overall, but especially in keeping us on track and pushing us on ideas that were mentioned.! —Kristin Taylor, Senior Account Executive, Carbonara Group
“Great teamwork. Useful to know each other. I learned a lot about other areas of the company. I liked the Team Profile very much. Great approach to different topics.” —Alexjandro Raizman, CEO, Aldente Group
“Great format – building team synergy and generating quality work product. Wish we’d had more time for action plans/prioritizing the Start/StopContinue items. I would recommend the Team Profile to others and in fact, would like Laura to conduct the Team Profile segment for my team if possible. I thought it was a well thought out program and progression to the last and most important exercise.” —Cherri Carbonara, Principal, Carbonara Group
“I thought it was great. The content was well developed and Laura did a wonderful job facilitating the meeting. Wish we’d had more time for learning to work more effectively with the varying types of personalities. Yes, I have benefitted personally and professionally through the Team Dimensions Evaluation – it enables me to work more effectively with others. I think the profile is very effective in learning where our team has strengths and weaknesses. I would recommend others use it to their advantage in identifying strong and weak links. —Kris Kelly, Former Director, Marketing
Pikes Peak Association for Training and Development (ATD)
- Laura moved early to the web and has done substantial work to understand how various social media channels can be used to communicate marketing, training, and public service messages. She is a skilled presenter who has the knack of breaking down what could be an overwhelming topic and explaining what her audience needs to know in clear, compelling language. —Kitty Wooley, VP Programs Pikes Peak ATD
- I always love the information and the style of training Laura offers is always engaging —Debbie Cronk, Air Academy Federal Credit Union
- Good presenter. Good pacing and interaction. Interesting and relevant content and presentation organization. —Lori Marin, McDivitt Law
- Extremely knowledgeable about social media, “down to earth,” tries to adapt to the needs of her audience. —anonymous
“My experience with Laura was eye opening. I have not only applied her information in my professional environment but personal as well. Her topics on effective communication put into perspective about perception, and how to create effective communication that benefits those involved. She is very patient, very personable, and it was very comfortable speaking with her. I recommend her for any aspect that you would need to bridge gaps in any area of business.” —Billing Support Analyst, Ohio
From USA Volleyball National Conference:
- Easy to understand. No dead points or lulls in conversation. —Quinton Kraeer
- She had some great information about how to deal with very difficult people. Highly recommend. —Amber Turner
- Dense, realistic tools (in one hour) to deal with difficult people. —John Kessel
- Laura, you’ve always been fantastic. You rock! So glad to make contact with you again! —Carla Hall
- A very good speaker who suggested good tools to use both in everyday life and in the work environment. —Amber Scott
- Very charismatic, great speaker. —Irina Day
- Great, upbeat, concise effective speaker. —Tim Ambruso
- Inspirational. Informative. Engaging. —Patricia Daughert
“I thought I would update you on how things are going. I did get a promotion to Managing Account Executive. It is a start in the right direction. Thank you for helping me with my self-awareness. I truly believe that I wouldn’t have gotten the promotion except for the fact that I was working with you. My efforts in getting a coach on my own and the things I could point to that you had taught me convinced them to give me the opportunity. Thank you again!” —Managing Account Executive, Insurance Industry
Association of Christian Schools International DiSC Behavioral Styles Training
- Great facilitator. Gentle approach with a big impact! —Laura Martinez, Human Resources
- Laura’s workshop helped our team not just recognize personality types but offered us practical application of that knowledge —Purvi Sittner
- Laura has great insight and knowledge that was helpful as we did various group exercises. —Bret Wichert
- Very helpful to gain self-awareness and be able to avoid areas of my own weaknesses and leverage my style strengths in working with others. —Lois Spangenberg
- Laura asks great questions to help you apply the information presented —anonymous
- Great facilitator; let the group conversation flow where it needed to go. —anonymous
Westone Laboratories, Colorado Springs, Customer Service Training
- I learned how differences in each of us can be useful. Laura used some great examples and stories. —Alisha Helberg
- Laura is a very personable and knowledgeable teacher on this subject (Customer Service) —Jodi Larson
- Very enlightening, reinforcing knowledge that I already had, but providing different prospectives. —Jarett Hoy
- I’m not one to be interested in training classes but I learned things like the CARLA approach which I can use in the future. —Anonymous
- Provided good information, great speaker, calm and relaxed. —Anonymous
- The class was informative, informal and pleasant. —Anonymous
- Laura made everyone feel comfortable to engage in the days activities. Very positive. —Anonymous
- Thank you for such a positive experience with customer service. —Anonymous
Want to bring Laura to your upcoming podcast, conference, leadership or staff development, or small business summit? Send her a note.