Laura Goldman, JD, ICF-PCC, CPCC, CPQC-M, is a Certified Parent Educator and Professional Coach whose work is rooted in Torah wisdom and informed by the best of contemporary psychology and neuroscience. She founded Arise Leadership Coaching & Training to support parents in becoming the leaders their families need — self-aware, regulated, connected, and intentional.

Laura came to parent education through curiosity and aspiration. She wanted to grow — to become not just a good parent, but the parent her children deserved. That desire led her to the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP), a nonprofit parent education organization, where what began as a personal pursuit became a professional calling. Over several years of studying, interning, co-teaching, and ultimately certifying as a Parent Educator, she built a practice teaching parents that spanned more than fifteen years. Through that work, she made a critical observation: parents could learn the skills, but when things got intense at home, they couldn’t access them. Something deeper was needed. That insight led her directly to professional coaching.

Laura trained and certified with the Coaches Training Institute, earning her designation as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), and holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the International Coaching Federation. She trained further at the basic and mastery levels of Positive Intelligence, receiving designation as a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach — Master (CPQC-M), and has expanded her practice to include the insights of Interpersonal Neurobiology and Polyvagal Theory. These disciplines illuminate how our nervous systems, early experiences, and relational patterns shape us — as people, and as parents.

The animating center of Laura’s approach, however, is Torah. Jewish wisdom — its understanding of the human being, the parent-child relationship, character development, and the purpose of family life — provides the framework within which all of her other knowledge lives. Contemporary psychology and neuroscience offer complementary lenses; Torah provides the foundation. This integration gives her work a depth and coherence that parents find both intellectually serious and practically grounding.

In her work with parents, Laura brings together self-awareness practices, self-regulation tools, attachment strategies, democratic parenting skills, and Torah-based guidance for raising children in an environment of unconditional love, encouragement, and connection. Whether teaching a class, coaching one-on-one, or facilitating a parent cohort, she meets parents where they are — with warmth, rigor, and the conviction that becoming a more intentional parent is some of the most important work a person can do.

Alongside her work as an educator and coach, Laura has spent more than three decades as an active lay leader in the Jewish community. She has served in executive leadership roles on synagogue and day school boards, pursued fellowships and certification in Jewish communal lay leadership and facilitation, and brings that experience to her coaching work with nonprofit executives. A devoted Torah learner, she also teaches a weekly Torah class in her community. Earlier in her career, Laura practiced law in the field of banking and finance. She lives in Silver Spring, MD, as the mother of four and a proud grandmother.