Helping Employees Navigate Life’s Most Overwhelming Challenges
Vanessa Laughlin / Founder of Banister Advisors, LLC
March 01, 2023
Guest Bio
Vanessa Laughlin / Founder of Banister Advisors, LLC
Vanessa's 20-year professional
background spans strategy development, implementation planning, business
process improvement, product marketing, technology implementations,
organizational design, and change management. Through the founding of Banister Advisors,
LLC in 2018, her passion for client services met the opportunity to ease the
complex emotional and logistical burdens that individuals and families confront
in the face of critical circumstances across their lifespan. The concept for
Banister Advisors was inspired in large part by the 2016 death of the founder's
father-in-law, Jay Banister Laughlin, MSW, after an unexpected health
crisis. The memory of Jay's sacrifice and dedication to serving his
family and community as a social worker, mediator, and therapist, serves as the
foundation for Banister's mission.
Vanessa holds an MBA with
distinction from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington
and a BA in Economics from Tufts University in Boston. Vanessa is a proud
member of the 2015 Class of Leadership Tomorrow Seattle and was honored in 2019
by The Puget Sound Business Journal as a 40 Under
40 Finalist. A native of Whidbey Island, WA, she now lives in Seattle
with her husband and two young sons.
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