Lawler Kang

After 15 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership, Lawler was on vacation and started doodling a process that became the genesis of his current work.  Soon thereafter, he walked away from empire building, wrote Passion at Work (Pearson Prentice Hall), and founded Ingage, Inc., whose mission is improving profitability by aligning leaders, teams, and talent to emotionally engage with their work.

Prior endeavors included:

• Leading the successful turnaround of three (out of four) technology/services and biotech firms
• Serving as Engagement Manager, and then growing the Northeast Practice of Scient, a technology consultancy, to ~100 colleagues; recorded the highest colleague satisfaction and lowest attrition rate of 11 global offices
• Mergers & acquisition, brand identity, and internet strategy consulting
• Executive searches (CXOs, Presidents, VPs) to enable revolutions in technology and services businesses

Lawler is a graduate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Vassar College.

Prior speaking/consulting clients include:  Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Yahoo, Booz Allen Hamilton, Pfizer, Young President’s Organization, SHRM, Business Objects, Harvard Business School, Columbia Graduate School of Business, and the MIT Sloan School of Business.