Welcome!

Are you looking to live better, lead stronger, and amplify the impact you or your organization have on the world? If the answer is yes, you are in the right place.

Here at Structured Shifts, we teach you how to live a life you love. At work. At home. Wherever you are, we teach you how to feel great inside and out. Our programs are based in science, focused on people, and teach the superpowers of navigating change and finding empowerment in any situation.

Laura Boone, our Principal, works through speaking, coaching, training, and writing to bring you the skills and resources you need to:

  • Navigate change with grace and ease. Any kind of change. Any kind.

  • Achieve your most important goals using our proprietary FIERCE framework.

  • Create mission driven, values aligned work environments people love.

  • Bring real life, actually doable wellness practices to life and work.

  • Be the amazing leader, partner, colleague, and friend we all want to be.

  • Thrive through anything - divorce, retirement, job change, empty nest, loss or gain. You name it, you’ll learn how to not only survive, but to thrive.

  • You've changed my life! I was counting down the days to retirement and now I'm looking forward to staying and making an impact for awhile longer.

    Diana Hawari - Chief Information Officer

  • Laura delivered the perfect ending session after a long day of learning and collaborating. She's not only engaging and a phenomenal presenter, but she meets audience members where they are at and challenges how they think. I'd recommend Laura to be a keynote speaker at any event.

    Lauren Owens - Executive Director of Technology

  • You're a mentor - you've activated seeds of empowerment that have been sitting dormant for years.

    Sophany Tibke, IT Professional/Mom/Amazing Human, Chandler AZ

  • “When I first met Laura, I didn't know her very well. I was skeptical about the content, being open in a space with my colleagues, and allocating time to this work rather than things I thought I should be doing. I was quickly transformed and found her content impacted all areas of my life. In addition, Laura's personality and demeanor made me feel so safe and cared about that working in a cohort became fun!

    Cohort Member

  • Thank you for spending the day with us - once again you were fun, funny and engaging. Your message was on par with work of our district and was complementary without being redundant.

    Emily Marshall, Asst Director, Educational Technology

  • I just wanted to thank you for everything you have done. You have made a very positive impact.

    Suzanne Brazzell, Technology Coach

  • Hey, Laura - I did it!!! Thank you!

    LBKA/PYF Challenge Participant, HR Services Leader

  • I use the tools Laura uses within her coaching every day. I love how multiple tools are presented over time, letting people attach to different ones and internalize in a unique way. For me, the The Four Life Domains has been especially impactful. Daily, I consider my choices and rather than achieving "balance" I focus on what domain needs more attention.

    23/24 Cohort Member

  • Laura walks the talk. She truly cares about people and has the best interest of others in mind -- while continuing to put herself first -- to be able to be awesome for the folks she is coaching. I have become a champion for Laura and the content she guides participants through -- so much so that I am constantly referencing her and encouraging others to seek her out!”

    Cohort Member

We are based in the beautiful Arizona desert and serve clients and organizations across the United States. Thanks to extensive experience in both the f2f and virtual environment, we work both in person and virtually.

About Structured Shifts

After years of studying change, Laura created the Structured Shifts Approach, a change navigation process is that it is always accessible, doable, and realistic. This winning approach incorporates transformational thinking, brain-based tools, and flexible strategies, each of which:

  • is simple enough to apply quickly and easily,

  • is available to you anytime and anywhere,

  • makes you feel more in control, and

  • makes your life generally easier.

If a tool or strategy doesn’t meet all four criteria, as great as it may be, it won’t make the cut.

The goal of the work is to bring to the world the strategies and tools that make "people feel safe, warm, and fuzzy so that they can do or learn anything that will help them live their best life."

About Laura Boone

Sit next to her long enough and she will likely hand you a tiny 🐸 frog and start talking to you about breathing, the brain, and why you taking care of yourself is good for others. She will explain how important it is to listen to your brain-body-mind cues in order to avoid “boiling your frog.”

The conversation will be informed by 20+ years of education experience and buckets of research done by brilliant neuroscientists and leaders. It will include learnings from her varied experiences - from life and work - that have taught her the importance of balancing often lofty science supported ideas with the lack of space in each day. It will most certainly be through the lens of life experiences that have taught the value of empathy, alignment, and grace.

She may tell stories of working with financial clients during times of loss and gain. Of making the shift to education and teaching a class of 36 in a portable. About shifting to IT and putting thousands of devices in classrooms for the first time, and of coaching tirelessly dedicated teachers during the 19-20 school year working night and day to serve their learners. She may share stories of personal experiences with navigating life changes - some desired, others not so much.

The outcome of it all? Strategies and programs that work. Strategies that are based on the clear understanding that success depends on each person feeling supported, resourced, and empowered. Strategies that can change your life.

Let’s work together!

Schedule a free consult today.