About
About Arise
Empowering Growth and Connection
Leadership isn’t a title; it’s a way of being. Whether you lead in business, at home, or in your community, you bring the same self everywhere you go. When you strengthen that self, every part of your life rises with you. This is particularly important when growing children.
Passionate about the healthy development of children, and devoted to supporting human growth, Arise helps parents, teachers and other child-centered leaders to take command of themselves – increasing their emotional, intuitive intelligence, tapping into their inner wisdom and exercising their self-regulation so that they may positively engage with children and others.
Arise helps to develop each leader’s inner resources of compassion, connection, creativity, and resilience so that they have the ability to face their challenges with an understanding of where they get stuck and how to get out of it. Once activated, this way of being supports the application of skills – parenting and professional – that enhance relationships and improve culture.
Science-Backed Support
Learning From the Best
Our Philosophy
Leadership is difficult and consequential. Raising the next generation of adults is the most consequential work any individual can do. At Arise, we support the parents, educators, and leaders who shape these environments—equipping them with the tools, insight, and encouragement to lead with wisdom, patience, and resourcefulness.
Empowered Individuals
We believe each leader knows themselves and their situation best. Through reflection, regulation, reframing, and goal setting, Arise helps reveal inner wisdom and build self-defined success.
Connected Cultures
Healthy development depends on connection. Children thrive with connected parents, students learn from connected teachers, and teams perform under connected leadership.
Informed Coaching
Our approach draws from Torah wisdom, psychology, neuroscience, and ongoing coach development—ensuring our work reflects the latest insights in service of our clients.
Meet Laura Goldman
About the Founder
An expert in parenting, leadership and collaboration, and passionate about helping develop leaders who impact children, Laura Goldman comes from a background of working with parents, community institutions, school leadership and executives. Laura also is an adult Torah educator and mentor for all ages.
Bringing a combination of psychology, Torah wisdom, leadership, education, coaching, and her analytical, playful and intuitive self to her work, Laura champions her client’s quest to develop themselves and be positively impactful.
Laura has been trained in executive coaching, leadership development, parent education, Positive Intelligence, Polyvagal Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation with a certification as a PCC (Professional Certified Coach). Based in Silver Spring, MD, Laura (mother of 4 and a grandmother) focuses her day-to-day life around family, community, mission and impact.
Read Laura's Background
Laura Goldman began her career as a lawyer in the field of banking and finance. Graduating from Yeshiva University, Syms School of Business with a B.S. in Finance, Magna Cum Laude, she attended Fordham Law School and took a job in Washington, DC with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, practicing in the field of bank regulatory law. After leaving the OCC, she dedicated her time to raising her children and doing community work. She took parenting classes with the Parent Encouragement Program (PEP), a grass-roots, nonprofit parent education organization. Following several years as a student, Laura pursued certification through PEP as a Certified Parent Educator.
She is currently a member (Family Educator Division) of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychologists. She has been teaching parents for over fifteen years. Desiring to work more directly with the parents she taught, Laura decided to become a Professional Coach. She trained and received supervision with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) where she received her designation as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC). She trained further in the methodology of Positive Intelligence, at the basic and mastery levels, and received designation as a Certified Positive Intelligence Coach – Master (CPQC-M). More recently, Laura has expanded her practice to include the use of Polyvagal Theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology to inform her work in support of her clients.
In addition to teaching parents and coaching, Laura has been an active lay leader in her communities for the last 35 years. Her experience in non-profit leadership led her to pursue two fellowships and a certification in Jewish communal lay leadership and, separately, in facilitation. She has facilitated in multiple contexts, including educator conferences and community fora, and dedicates a portion of her coaching practice to non-profit executive coaching. A devoted, practicing Jewish woman, Laura also loves to study and share her learning with others by speaking and teaching a weekly Torah class in her community.
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