Laura is a leader, speaker, consultant, coach, author and Human Resource expert. She founded Crothers Consulting in 2010 to support growing mid-market organizations that want to develop leaders, managers and culture in a pragmatic way, creating lasting behavioral shifts that deliver results for the organization. Drawing on her 30 years’ experience in HR, she has successfully guided business leaders and HR executives, providing a clear vision as they face the many challenges associated with growing their company or engaging in mergers or acquisitions. Laura’s candid, down-to-earth approach allows her to connect quickly and deeply with people. She is known as a skilled connector and enjoys linking people together.
Laura is known for her fast-paced, creative and pragmatic solutions in all areas of HR. She developed her leadership style throughout her years in Human Resource leadership roles with McGraw Hill, AT&T, ADP, Merrill Lynch, EverBank and Shearson Lehman Brothers. Determining the best ways to attract, integrate, engage and retain human capital talent, she has led and/or facilitated global initiatives.
Laura was Chief People Officer at US Express Leasing (USXL) which became EverBank. There she built the HR capability for this $85 MM start-up commercial leasing organization, which grew to $1 billion in assets. During her time there, the organization acquired many teams and small companies as they built out different market segments. Her ability to react quickly and nimbly to changing dynamics enabled them to grow the organization from 8 to 250 employees in five years. Advising senior executives and working with private equity ownership, she developed and executed strategies to retain the key leaders and employees during the market dislocation. In addition, she managed the due diligence efforts and integration for the $470 million acquisition of Tygris by EverBank.
Prior to EverBank, Laura worked as Senior Director of HR, focused on Mergers and Acquisitions at Standard & Poor’s, where she led the complex diligence and acquisition of PriceWaterHouse’s Corporate Value Consulting business by S&P.
Laura is the Chapter Chair of the Women's Presidents Organizations (WPO) for both Monmouth and Morris Counties, she serves on the board of directors for ACG NJ, and she is an active member of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce, MCEDC and Impact 100 Garden State.
Laura is a proud recipient of many awards including:
- 2024: Leading Women in Business Award recipient, given by NJBIZ
- 2024: Crothers Consulting was selected as the Most Innovative Leadership Training & HR Solutions Company - Northeast USA by Coporate Vision
- 2024: Crothers Consulting was recognized with the Community Impact Award from Morris County Economic Development Alliance
- 2022: Enterprising Women in Commerce Award recipient, given by the CIA-NJ (Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey).
- 2021: "Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs of New Jersey" given by Leading Women Entrepreneurs & Business Owners'
Laura sees great value in leadership assessment tools and microlearning technology. She is certified in The Leadership Circle® Profile, The Leadership Circle® Culture Survey, PDI Profiler®, DiSC® and is a SPHR. She also completed The Coaches Training Institute®, (commonly known as CTI®) Co-Active Coaching® program.
She holds a BS in Business Management, with an emphasis in Human Resources and a minor in Mathematics, from Susquehanna University. Laura spends much of her free time traveling and skiing with her two sons or planning social activities with her large circle of friends.
