ABOUT LAUREN
Founder and CEO UPFRONT, speaker, best selling author and artist
Lauren helps women and organisations challenge the hidden rules that hold people back - building confidence, visibility and cultures where people do their boldest work.
“The whole room had goose bumps”
Kylie Ried, Founder of EGG
In-demand speaker
Lauren Currie is one of the most sought-after speakers on confidence, women’s leadership and cultural change, known for combining honesty, humour and clarity in a way that leaves audiences thinking differently long after the event ends.
From global companies to grassroots communities, Lauren’s talks challenge the invisible rules that hold people back and offer practical, emotionally intelligent tools for building confidence, visibility and influence.
Lauren’s book Be UPFRONT: 24 Rules for Life Changing Confidence is a WHSmith best seller. Her children’s book called Taylor Meets The Trick is a story designed to help children and adults recognise and challenge the invisible gender rules that shape our lives.
She’s working on her first fiction book now. If you’re an agent, she’d like to be your friend.
"Every woman needs this book"
Cindy Gallop, Founder of Make Love Not Porn
Best-selling author
Named a “Top Business Woman”
by Management Today
Entrepreneur
Lauren’s company, UPFRONT, is a leading education and training platform on a mission to up skill 10million women.
UPFRONT is Lauren’s sixth business and she’s been an entrepreneur for seventeen years.
She was chairperson of leading maternity discrimination charity Pregnant Then Screwed for seven years.
“I only like mammam in the mornings and at night and I only like daddy in the day time”
Lauren’s eight year old son
A Scot living in Sweden
Lauren lives in Uppsala in Sweden, where she lives with her partner, her eight year old son and their Siberian Forest Cat Lynx and Labradoodle Wolf.
She reads fiction obsessively, makes art inspired by older women’s faces, plays guitar and owns an extraordinary collection of red notebooks.