Laura Berman Fortgang

Laura Berman Fortgang is a life and career coach, author and interfaith minister who lives and works in Montclair, New Jersey. She came to coaching in its early days, after a first career as a performer, and was among the people who helped set up the International Coach Federation. Her company, InterCoach, has worked with private clients, corporations and public bodies for close to three decades, but the thread running through her work is a simple question many people meet in midlife: what am I meant to do next?

Her answer is a method she calls Now What?, which asks people to search inwards before they search job listings. Clients look back over their own history for clues, name what actually makes work satisfying for them, face their fears about money and learn to take their intuition seriously. She has set this out in several books, among them Take Yourself to the Top, The Prosperity Plan, The Little Book on Meaning and Now What?, her ninety-day guide to a change of direction. She teaches it through private coaching, talks and weekend programmes at Kripalu, and also trains other coaches. Her TEDx talk on finding your calling without starting from the résumé has passed two million views.