About Laura Belsten

Dr. Laura Belsten is the founder and president of CEO Partnership, Denver's premier executive coaching and leadership development firm. Laura enjoys a reputation among executive coaches nationally for her confidentiality, integrity, keen insights, client satisfaction, and leading-edge coaching expertise.

Laura works with intelligent, high-achieving, over-worked executives, managers and leaders to navigate the whitewater conditions and rocky shoals of life in the world of business today. With her background in communication, management and leadership, Laura helps executives with their influencing and negotiating skills, conflict management, team-building, political and organizational savvy, emotional and social intelligence, decision-making and problem-solving skills, as well as their strategic, critical and visionary thinking - all aspects of what makes up today's successful executive.

She helps her clients translate their vision into action, build exceptional teams and high-performing organizations, lead change and manage transitions, improve employee competence and commitment, build a healthy, respectful and fulfilling workplace, improve executives' abilities to coach and develop emerging leaders as well as work with difficult individuals (supervisors, peers and direct reports), and implement lasting improvements in their own performance and business results.

With 25 years in management and leadership positions, including senior line and staff management positions in small, medium and large organizations, Laura is a gifted executive coach and consultant who understands first-hand the challenges her clients face. In addition to relevant, in-the-trenches executive experience, Laura's educational background rounds out her unique expertise in coaching. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in leadership, communication, teams, emotional intelligence and conflict management. Her Master's and Bachelor's degrees are from the University of Colorado.

In addition, Laura has completed specialized executive and organizational coaching training through three national coaching institutions, and holds the highest coaching credential awarded by the International Coach Federation, the Master Certified Coach (MCC). She is also a professionally trained mediator.

She is qualified and/or certified to use a wide variety of business assessment and psychological instruments in her coaching practice, including Myers Briggs, DiSC, various 360 tools, FIRO-B, emotional intelligence tools (the ECI, the EQ-i and the EQ Map), the Watson Glaser Critical Thinking instrument, the Conflict Lens, and many more.

On the faculty at the University of Denver since 1990, Laura's popular courses in leadership, communication, coaching, emotional intelligence and conflict management have sold out for over 17 years.

She is Immediate Past President of the Denver Coach Federation, and a member of the International Coach Federation. She is the author of the best-selling Coaching Emotional Intelligence and has developed one of the nation's leading emotional intelligence tests, the Emotional Intelligence Profile.

Laura and her husband reside in Denver, Colorado. She has two grown sons.