About Us

The Lawrence Advisory is redefining executive recruiting with a unique approach that fully integrates equity and inclusion, leadership expertise, and strategic excellence. For over a decade, we have provided executive search, leadership coaching, DEI consulting, and strategic advisory services to clients across the spectrum of industries. Our consultative approach distinguishes us from other search firms and has produced significant advantages for our clients. Our business is characterized by deep, long-standing client relationships and longer tenure for our candidates.

We are proud to be a Black woman led and owned organization with a highly diverse team that boasts leadership experience across sectors. Using this multisectoral and intersectional expertise, we integrate equity into all our programs and services. Our diversity, paired with our leadership expertise, is what sets us apart.

We believe that recruiting is ground zero for building and maintaining a strong, inclusive culture. With this in mind, our experience and specialized process help us deliver customized solutions for your talent acquisition management goals. Though we offer tailored solutions in the areas of coaching, search, and strategic advisory, we are guided by the mantra of “leadership first”.

We welcome the opportunity to partner with as you as you strengthen, grow, and transform your organization.

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Our team provides clients with the professionalism and effectiveness of a large recruiting agency, combined with the attention and customized approach of a boutique firm.

Solutions And Expertise

Who you hire is who you become
The Lawrence Advisory redefines recruiting with a unique approach that fully integrates equity and inclusion, leadership expertise, and strategic excellence. For over a decade, we have provided executive search services to entertainment and media companies, financial services companies, Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofits, museums and cultural institutions. Our consultative approach distinguishes us from other search firms and has produced significant advantages for our clients. Our business is characterized by deep, long-standing client relationships and longer tenure for our candidates. To date, approximately 90% of our placements remain in their roles after five years.

Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Career Services
  • Culture Shaping
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Executive Tracker
  • Interim
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • On-Demand Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Org. Chart Mapping
  • Recruitment Research
  • Succession Planning
  • Workplace Mgmt.
Industries
  • Alt. Investments
  • Asset Management
  • Associations
  • Clean Tech./Sustain.
  • Cloud Based
  • Commercial Banking
  • Consulting
  • Consumer
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Services
  • Cultural Arts
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Devices
  • Faith Based
  • Family Offices
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • FinTech
  • Foundations
  • Global Markets
  • Hedge Funds
  • High Tech
  • Insurance
  • Internet
  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Mgmt.
  • Luxury
  • Machine Learning
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Mobile
  • Non-Profit
  • Payments/Processes
  • Private Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Real Estate
  • Software
  • Sovereign Wealth
  • Technology
  • Trade Finance
  • Travel, Hosp. & Leisure
  • Venture Capital
  • Wealth Management
Functions
  • Advertising
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • C-Level
  • C-Suite
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Customer Service
  • Data/Analytics
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Government
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain

News Briefings

The Lawrence Advisory Coaching Consortium Launched

The Lawrence Advisory has launched The Lawrence Advisory Coaching Consortium (TLACC). “With this new venture, we are creating the industry’s most diverse team of highly accomplished and experienced executive coaches and leadership consultants,” The Lawrence Advisory said. TLACC is founded on the principle that leadership and inclusion should not be treated as separate priorities, but

Press Releases

Announcing The Lawrence Advisory Coaching Consortium

(December 13, 2019) Tracy Lawrence of The Lawrence Advisory Offers the Key Positive Solutions for a Changing Workplace Citing a passion for creating a positive work environment and motiving individuals to maximize their greatest potential, entrepreneur and media professional Tracy Lawrence is the force behind executive search, consulting and coaching firm The Lawrence Advisory. The

Effective Recruiting During the Great Resignation

(April 22, 2022) A dramatic shift in the job market continues to vex recruiting efforts nationwide. The Great Resignation has driven vacancies to an all-time high and experts predict a continuation of this trend for the remainder of 2022. With demand for talent far exceeding supply, the power balance remains firmly on the side of

5 Reasons Why Diversity Plans Fail

(April 6, 2021) An HR professional whose company was renegotiating an employment contract with a highly valuable black executive recently asked whether to give the executive the significant raise he was asking for “just because this person is black.” I asked whether they had a history of giving similar increases to white employees. A quick

Tracy Lawrence of The Lawrence Advisory: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO

(March 8, 2021) Our founder, Tracy Lawrence was recently interviewed by Candice Georgiadis in an article published on Medium.com about the 5 things she wish she had known before becoming a CEO. 1. Never lose sight of your vision 2. Who You Hire is Who You Become 3. Stay in Your Zone of Genius 4. Build