Lauren Wittenberg Weiner – Speaker, Author, Mentor, Board Member

Lauren Wittenberg Weiner

Author | Speaker | Thought Leader

An entrepreneur who found unexpected success in the male-dominated field of military contracting by upending the rules of the game.


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I succeeded through wit and grit, authenticity, and forging my own path rather than following the standard “playbook.”
Author
Author of the upcoming book Unruly
Thought Leader
Sought-after expert on varied topics from government rules to work/life equilibrium
Speaker
Popular keynote and TEDx speaker; contact me to discuss speaking needs
Board Member
Engaged community leader and board member

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  • Bio
  • Unruly
  • Thoughtful Authenticity
About Lauren Wittenberg Weiner
Lauren Wittenberg Weiner became an accidental entrepreneur when she quit her White House job to follow her husband on military orders to Italy. Once there, she was told that military spouses were prohibited from holding professional-level jobs. She started WWC Global, and she and her team grew it to $100m in annual revenue.

In 2018, WWC Global won the largest-ever contract to a woman-owned business in US Special Operations Command headquarters history— the headquarters for the Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets—making WWC Global one of the most successful women-owned small businesses in the government contracting space, and the top graduate of the small disadvantaged business program for the US Government.

Lauren has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and a Ph.D. in psychology from Dartmouth College. She lives in Tampa Bay with her family, where she sits on the Board for Baycare Health System (a $5.2B not-for-profit), the Tampa Bay WAVE technology incubator, and the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce. She is the primary caregiver for her aging parents and a loud and proud hockey mom.
Author of Unruly

When the rules stop working for you, Unruly is the guide to your authentic path for personalized success.

Rules are necessary for a functional society, but many “rules” we follow are simply conventional wisdom, norms, or limited interpretations. We’re expected to play along by conforming, follow- ing the crowd, and steering toward comfortable paths. But viewing rules as a starting point rather than as an endpoint opens worlds of opportuni- ties for your success.
Unruly is your manual to identify the best maneuvers in the gray areas that allow you to create and secure your unique path to success. Lauren Wittenberg Weiner, a powerful speaker and business leader who has upended barriers on her journey toward extraordinary success, teaches readers in any industry how to:

  • Navigate your own space while remaining in compliance with established standards and maintaining a strong moral compass
  • Convert fear and imposter syndrome into a superpower
  • Determine when it’s time to stop listening to what people think you should or could do to find what you can do
  • Use your power to be a gateway, not a gatekeeper, for others
    Borrowing from concepts in psychology, law, business, and the military, Unruly uncovers what to ignore, what to pay attention to, and what to remake as your own.
Borrowing from concepts in psychology, law, business, and the military, Unruly uncovers a deep understanding of rules and where they bend to equip readers for personalized success.

View Unruly Page

Approachable credibility

Lauren is an authentic leader, speaker, and author who routinely shows “behind the
curtain” to the reality behind her success. In addition to her professional duties, she is the mom of 2 teenaged
hockey players (and has become close with the pediatric orthopedist accordingly) and the primary caregiver of two
aging parents. From her discussions of “work/life equilibrium and the three questions to ask yourself to keep your life as
“balanced” as possible to her theories on why Imposter Syndrome is actually a superpower, her humor and candor help
audiences find their own authentic path to their own version of success.

Click Here to view the video of Lauren’s TEDx talk on Credibility and Connection Through Thoughtful Authenticity.

I’m not good at hiding who I am—the good, the bad, and the ugly of my whole life, not just my work life—and that has been one of the biggest drivers of my success (and more importantly my ability to help others succeed).
Lauren Wittenberg Weiner
Lauren Wittenberg Weiner
Thoughtfully Authentic