Transform Leaders, Transform Your Company

Welcome to the Leaders Lab Collective. In a world where tomorrow's leaders struggle to get the right skills, experiences, and support the Leaders Lab Collective offers a game-changing solution. Here, our mission is simple: equip your top talent and rising stars with the tools, strategies, and coaching they need to deliver maximum business impact while honoring their personal priorities. Our approach doesn’t just support—it transforms. Using proprietary content, personalized coaching, and an executive dashboard, we offer practical, actionable resources. It's time to empower your senior leadership and rising stars today.

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Why Choose Us?

Are you a senior or emerging leader looking to boost your leadership game? Avoid burnout and propel your career to new heights with practical strategies tailored precisely for your demanding role. With personalized coaching and an intuitive executive dashboard, sustain your energy drive outcomes along your journey from surviving to thriving.

Proof of Progress is in your increased ability
to drive Business Transformation

At the end of our coaching engagement, you'll create a Business Impact Brief highlighting your actions and advancements; translating growth into concrete results. Our wrap-up report is your career accelerator—a transparent testament to your hard work, professional growth, and business impact.

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Erin Carnish

Executive Coach & Strategic Advisor

Erin Carnish has over 30+ years of experience building companies and leading teams to drive exponential growth and scale businesses. Her unique experience as a business builder, C-Suite leader, Operating Partner, and Board Member enables her to provide Executive Coaching support well beyond that of a traditional Executive Coach.

Professional Background

Erin's professional background includes serving as the Managing Director & COO of UnitedHealth Group Ventures (UHGV), where she successfully deployed over $450M into seven new ventures that achieved an imputed IRR of greater than 25%. Previously, Erin served as Senior Vice President at Optum Care Solutions, where she developed new business models that fueled the organization's rapid growth, from $400M to $1.3B of revenue over three years. Erin began her career as a consultant at Andersen, working with over 20+ companies to grow middle-market companies to billion-dollar enterprises. In addition, she has served on nine for-profit boards and numerous non-profit boards.

Executive Coaching

Erin tailors each coaching experience to the leader's unique needs. Her extensive business background helps C-Suite executives develop their “leader of leader” capabilities. Her ability to offer unique insights and ask targeted questions is informed by her extensive business background and enhanced through utilizing proprietary leadership frameworks that she has developed, informed by decades of experience.

Typical coaching dialogue spans topics across leading teams, honing executive communication, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and driving cross-functional team alignment. In addition, Erin commonly acts as a sounding board around driving organizational change, positioning messages, and motivating leadership teams. Erin's extensive experience working with Corporate Boards, Private Equity, and Venture Firms provides C-Suite executives a leg-up in managing and optimizing these relationships where appropriate.

Erin received certification from Rutgers University’s Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance program led by Heidrick & Struggles, an accredited program by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Level 2 education program.

Education

Erin holds a BS in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota and lives with her husband and three children in Minneapolis.

Testimonials

“Erin takes good leaders and develops them into change makers. She is methodical in drawing out the greatest opportunities for a business and develops trusting relationships to identify the unique skills of its leaders. With this approach she directs the leader’s skills specifically at the business needs amplifying their impact exponentially.”

Testimonials

“Working with Erin has been empowering and inspiring. I trust Erin's guidance because of her firm values and wealth of experience. She helps you create actionable steps to meet your goals through thoughtful questions and practical tools, and has the ability to point out hidden beliefs that hold you back. I highly recommend working with Erin if you are ambitious in your professional, personal, and family life.”

Testimonials

“I appreciate Erin’s guidance and ability to work through complex problems and issues with me. She is excellent at asking great questions that help me get to the root of an issue and move forward. I find her positive and proactive communication style to be a source of strength as I grow as a leader and drive business results.”