Who We Are

Lauren Meltzer has spent most of her career focusing on children and parents.

After earning a Master’s in Technology in Education from Harvard University, she spent over a decade working with children and parents as an educational designer and producer of educational software and websites. 

In 2016, ​Lauren took a midlife gap year. While living in Malaysia with her family, she mentored a Pakistani refugee and wrote for an expat online publication. 

​Once back in the states, she pivoted and studied Coaching and Energy Leadership at The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).  She specialized in women and parents.

She now specializes in coaching parents with children who are neurodiverse. As the mother of a twice-exceptional (2e)—intellectually gifted children who have one or more learning disabilities—daughter, she is passionate about helping families develop strategies to support their children’s unique needs. She learns about parents’ values, their current systems, what is working in their home, and their current struggles.  She then empowers them to make the changes they would like. Her approach involves using evidence-based strategies to build awareness, try experiments, and facilitate personal growth. Lauren has been a lifelong advocate for social-emotional learning and has played leadership roles for the parent organizations at the Keys and Synapse Schools in Silicon Valley.

You can also find Lauren parent coaching and running workshops at the Center for Children and Youth (JFCS) in the Bay Area, REEL2e.org and HabitCoach.

Carmen O’Shea is a former Fortune 100 HR and Marketing senior executive, now working to build leadership and engagement in a variety of purpose-driven organizations. She has expertise in the intersections of leadership, talent development, culture & engagement, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. She was an Air Force officer (Public Affairs) for 7 years while starting her career in business.

She’s passionate about people and about unleashing the potential in others. Currently she is a Board member of the East Palo Alto YMCA, a Commissioner of the San Mateo County LGBTQ Commission, co-chair of her son’s school PTA, and a Commissioner of the Women’s Refugee Commission. She is also a school liaison for the Children’s Health Council (CHC) in Palo Alto.

She also provides leadership and executive HR consulting to the Sharks Sports & Entertainment group. She was fortunate enough to be selected as a 2015 Woman of Influence in the Silicon Valley.

Carmen is a graduate of Harvard College, with a major in Social Anthropology. She loves travel, learning languages, meeting new people, music & dance. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband & 2 sons.

Carmen is excited to pursue her dream of helping other parents facing challenging situations with their gender fluid or neurodiverse children!

We can help you find the resources you need to support your child. Benefit from our experiences facing challenges with our own and other children who are gifted/twice exceptional, autistic, gender fluid, or have attention or sensory issues.