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Lauren Lasceski
Engineer. Former Division I Athlete. Twin. Speaker on Resilience, Performance & the Why Not Me? Mindset.
Lauren Lasceski’s story begins with the odds stacked against her, before she ever took her first breath.
Lauren and her twin sister were diagnosed in utero with Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS), a rare and life-threatening pregnancy complication with devastating outcomes if left untreated. Doctors gave them only a 6% chance of survival, with little expectation that both girls would survive, let alone live healthy, able-bodied lives.
But they did.
That beginning shaped everything.
Growing up with the awareness that her life started as a fight for survival gave Lauren an uncommon perspective on resilience, gratitude, and possibility. It became the foundation for the mindset she now shares with audiences: that challenge does not have to define your limitations—it can become the reason you rise.
Today, Lauren brings that message to stages through a rare combination of powerful storytelling, elite athletic experience, and real-world performance under pressure.
A former Division I cross country and track athlete, Lauren competed at the highest collegiate level while balancing academic excellence and leadership. She was recognized as MAC Athlete of the Week, earned four Scholar-Athlete honors, and was named a multi-time Academic All-American and Academic All-MAC, demonstrating sustained excellence both in competition and in the classroom. Years of competing in high-pressure environments taught Lauren how to navigate uncertainty, setbacks, discipline, and the mental demands of performance when outcomes are never guaranteed.
That drive extended beyond athletics.
Lauren is now an engineer with her master's degree, bringing the same discipline, analytical thinking, and resilience into her professional career. Her journey, from surviving a 6% chance at life, to Division I athlete, to engineer, to speaker, gives her a perspective that is both deeply personal and broadly applicable across leadership, performance, mindset, and growth.
Whether speaking to corporate teams, student-athletes, leadership groups, women in STEM, organizations navigating change, or beyond, Lauren challenges audiences to rethink adversity, redefine possibility, and step toward the life they want with courage.
Her message is rooted in one question:
Why not me?
Why not go after the opportunity?Why not rise after the setback?Why not believe something bigger is possible—even when the odds say otherwise?
Lauren’s talks leave audiences energized, challenged, and equipped with practical tools to build confidence, embrace pressure, and perform with purpose.
She doesn’t speak about resilience as a theory.
She speaks about what it looks like to live it.
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Why Not Me?
An inspirational keynote on resilience, belief, and becoming
Lauren’s signature keynote explores what happens when you stop waiting to feel ready and choose to believe you belong in the room, in the opportunity, and in the life you’re working toward.
Rooted in her story of surviving Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome alongside her twin sister, competing as a Division I athlete, and building a career as an engineer, Lauren challenges audiences to rethink adversity—not as proof they can’t, but as part of the reason they can.
This keynote is about courage, perspective, and asking the question that can change everything:
Why not me?
Ideal for: conferences, leadership events, women’s events, student audiences, and general keynote sessions.
The Engineering of Resilience
Building strength under pressure—in performance, leadership, and life
What does resilience actually look like when pressure is real?
Blending her background as an engineer and former Division I athlete, Lauren breaks down resilience as something we build—through challenge, repetition, failure, recovery, and choice.
This keynote connects performance psychology with real-life application, showing audiences how resilience can be developed like any other skill.
Ideal for: engineering organizations, STEM conferences, women in STEM, corporate leadership teams, and high-performance workplaces.
The Physics of Fear
Understanding fear, pressure, and how to move anyway
Fear has weight. Pressure has momentum. Doubt has force.
In this keynote, Lauren explores the internal mechanics of fear—how it shows up in the body, influences decision-making, and often stands between us and growth.
Drawing from athletics, engineering, and personal experience, she offers a practical framework for moving through fear instead of waiting for it to disappear.
Ideal for: leadership development, performance-focused teams, student-athletes, and organizations navigating change.
The Bubble Athlete
What fighting for the last spot teaches us about identity, pressure, and performance
Not everyone competes from certainty.
Lauren shares what it was like living on the edge of qualification—fighting for roster spots, racing under pressure, and constantly navigating the space between making it and missing it.
This keynote speaks to anyone who has ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or stuck between “almost” and “not yet.”
It’s about performance, identity, resilience, and learning how to keep showing up when nothing feels guaranteed.
Ideal for: athletic departments, student-athletes, coaches, and performance-centered audiences.
The Depression You Don’t See
Emotional honesty, invisible struggle, and the courage to be human
Some of the hardest battles don’t look visible from the outside.
This keynote creates space for a more honest conversation around mental wellness, identity, internal pressure, and what it means to carry struggle while still appearing successful.
Lauren speaks openly about the tension between achievement and emotional wellbeing, helping audiences feel seen while reducing stigma around invisible struggle.
Ideal for: wellness conferences, universities, young professional groups, women’s events, and mental health initiatives.
Redefining Strong
A leadership keynote on vulnerability, resilience, and what strength really looks like
Strength is often misunderstood as pushing through, holding it together, or never breaking.
Lauren challenges that definition.
This keynote reframes strength as self-awareness, adaptability, emotional honesty, and the willingness to continue forward—especially when things feel uncertain.
A powerful talk on human-centered leadership and leading with both resilience and authenticity.
Ideal for: leadership conferences, women’s leadership, corporate teams, and culture-focused organizations.
The Space Between
A keynote on becoming—through persistence, perspective, and forward motion
Hope starts the movement. Determination sustains it. Momentum changes everything.
This keynote explores what it means to keep becoming—through setbacks, uncertainty, pressure, and reinvention.
Lauren shares reflections on resilience, discipline, identity, and the quiet work of continuing to move forward, even before the outcome is clear.
This is a keynote about growth, possibility, and the power of staying in motion.
Ideal for: opening or closing conference keynotes, leadership retreats, student audiences, and inspirational events.
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