VIDEO : Our Qualifications

Laura Hill is founder and president of Careers in Motion LLC, a career coaching firm based in New York City that she formed in 2005.  A recognized expert on career transitions for professionals and executives, she has been featured on CNBC’s The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo and has been quoted on career topics in Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among others. 

Working primarily with senior-level executives, she helps clients optimize their careers through assessment, strategic planning, personal branding, and effective job search, including assistance with resumes, interviewing skills and negotiations.  Her clients include C-suite executives, MBAs from top business schools, law firm partners and associates, and Wall Street professionals.  Her broad industry expertise includes financial services; not-for-profit management, media/entertainment/internet; consumer products; and professional services.

From 2001 to 2005 Laura headed client services for Crenshaw Associates, a boutique firm that provides outplacement programs for top executives, including CEOs.  Just prior to that, Laura was vice president of human capital at MobileSpring, Inc., a venture-funded technology company where her responsibilities included organizational planning and recruiting.

From 1998 to 2000, Laura was managing director at Redwood Partners, a retained executive search firm that served emerging Internet businesses.  She authored their Internet CFO Study and conducted searches for business heads and top financial, marketing, business development and technology executives.  From 1993 to 1998 she owned her own recruiting firm which served publishing, advertising and new media concerns.

Earlier in her career, Laura worked for retainer search firm Korn/Ferry International as an associate and as regional research director.  She was also an officer at Chase Manhattan Bank where she worked in international, wholesale, and retail banking.

Laura is a frequent speaker for professional groups including Financial Executives International (FEI), The Association for Corporate Growth, The Financial Executive’s Networking Group (FENG), Financial Women’s Association and Technology Executives Networking Group (TENG). She is a volunteer with Upwardly Global, a non-profit organization that helps qualified immigrants continue their professional careers in the United States.

Laura received an M.B.A. in finance from the Stern School at New York University and a B.B.A. in marketing from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.  She is a certified career coach with The Five O’Clock Club and is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs personality assessment and interpret Johnson O’Connor aptitude results.