Your peak professional performance is within reach.
Envision it, and make it happen with Pracademic Coaching. Put our practical management experience and top-tier academic credentials to work for you.
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Coming from different backgrounds, the co-founders and coaches at Pracademic Coaching have found a powerful intersection of real-world executive experience and the study of performance psychology.
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By combining the practical and the theoretical, we created a unique approach to helping individuals and organizations envision peak performance in their chosen field, then enact a plan to achieve it.
Our approach:
Think ahead.
Act now.
Our unique approach to coaching peak performance enlists the power of thinking ahead to enable our clients to act with conviction now. Combining our backgrounds in psychology and practical management, we guide our clients to envision the desired future state. This applies to both long-term goals (like preparing a company for successful exit) and short-term goals (like evaluating a key hire).
Think ahead to how the situation will look when you have achieved peak performance, or made the best possible decisions. Your vision is powerful, motivational, and actionable. Knowing where we’re headed enables charting a path to get there, while unlocking the ability to anticipate and overcome challenges along the way.
With individualized support from Pracademic Coaching, you will be amazed at the power of envisioning your own peak performance, and creating an actionable plan to achieve it.
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Coaching Services
Performance Coaching
Performance coaching helps clients achieve optimal performance in their chosen field. We use a range of peak performance techniques based in psychology and management training to coach elite athletes, musicians, actors, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and others.
Founder & Startup Executive Coaching
This coaching is for founders and executives who are actively building emerging companies — navigating the complexity that comes with venture backing, board relationships, investor dynamics, leadership team alignment, and organizational scale.
Executive Coaching
We coach individual leaders and full leadership teams, usually in long-term engagements. We help founders and executives think ahead to lead with conviction now. We help team streamline their processes, create effective communication structures, and maximize their strengths.
Career Coaching
Successful professionals typically pursue new opportunities several times within a career. Whether starting a new business, seeking a promotion, changing companies, or pivoting fields – career coaching helps clients navigate new opportunities, usually within shorter engagements.
Coaches
Lauren Rigney
Co-founder and coach Lauren Rigney represents the academic side of Pracademic Coaching. She holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Exercise and Sport Studies and a master’s degree in Professional Counseling . She not only learned the theory and science of human behavior and motivation, but has practiced and taught it as a Division I basketball player and coach before becoming a professional counselor and coach over the past 15 years. Learn more
Kristen Connor
As the practical side of Pracademic Coaching, co-founder and coach Kristen Connor built a 20-year career in the technology industry — including executive roles at three venture-backed startups with successful exits — before bringing that experience to her coaching practice. She has been in the rooms where the hardest decisions get made. That pattern recognition is what she brings to every coaching engagement. Learn more
Your peak professional performance is within reach.
Start thinking ahead and acting now to achieve your goals. Contact us to set up a free coaching consultation.
Planning a startup’s strategy and approach for the next year is incredibly challenging. We propose a simple planning framework to help early-stage startup leaders say yes to the right work to achieve the right outcomes for their business — and say no to the other things (even if they’re great ideas).