From criminal lawyer, to structuring international private equity vehicles, to launching a beauty tech platform, to operating at the intersection of tech, venture and capital in corporate finance. Laura’s story is everything but linear, neither is entrepreneurship. She carried a vision the market hadn’t caught up to and moved anyway. Without any industry experience or network to lean on, just nerve and consequence. Absorbing financial pressure in a space she had to learn from the ground up, through trial and error, recalibrating in real time, iterating when it was painful, pushing forward when stakes were high. Positioning confusion, launch anxiety, creative overwhelm, decision paralysis and growth plateaus. Welcome to the isolating, expensive, unglamorous reality of building something from nothing, and scaling something that’s begun to stall. It didn’t dilute Laura’s ambition, it rewired her standards.

COLLIDE is rooted in that tension between foresight and risk. It became the foundational insight that brand and business are never separate. Strategy drives creativity. Structure enables scale. And founders need someone who understands both – not as parallel tracks, but as one intertwined system. Forging hard-earned friction into structured intelligence across brand and business. 

Laura founded and built COLLIDE to be the partner she wishes she had. As your savvy founder-level counterpart, she brings the fusion of strategic command, creative direction, and commercial depth most agencies lack and most coaches don’t care to develop. Not glorifying entrepreneurship, not sugarcoating it either. Sharp to challenge your thinking, experienced to steer your direction – future-forward to leverage tech-augmented tools, without letting it replace the human judgment that determines what’s actually worth building. That is the COLLIDE edge.