Lauren Ducrey Brings the Power of Poetry into Corporate Workshops [INTERVIEW]

Lauren Ducrey is an award-winning poet, speaker, mindfulness facilitator, AI designer (ex-Google) and string cheese enthusiast. When she’s not designing more emotionally supportive AI, she’s on a mission to break poetry out of its ivory tower as an accessible tool to support our well-being. She spent 7 years at Google hacking poetry into the workplace with team-building and leadership training that build on the connective power of language. She also supports individuals writing themselves out loud through workshops, writing courses, and 1-on-1 mentoring. She weaves a poetic community wherever she goes, hosting events and interactive performances in NYC and Paris. Her tools of choice on this mission are her two Masters in Literature and Social Innovation, her previous lives as a political speechwriter and educator, as well as an unrelenting sense of humor.  Her book of poems Tongues Tied and her album of poetry and music Cordes sensibles make words leap off the page in conversation with artwork and original riffs. Her pieces are also featured in Initium Magazine, Humankind Magazine, Fabernovel.com, as well as in mindfulness apps Minderful and RogaLife. Her piece "The Second Cactus" is the laureate of the 2022 Moving Words competition, an international project bringing poems to the screen with ani