About
KL Boardroom Consulting was founded on the conviction that experienced judgment, grounded in legal training, rigor, operational insight, and practical sensibility, produces better outcomes.
Brain Trust Partnerships
We partner with high-growth companies, large institutions, nonprofits and family offices confronting nuanced governance challenges in the face of legal and regulatory decisions carrying lasting consequences.
Our work centers on moments of inflection: crises, investigations, audits, leadership transitions, regulatory scrutiny, and strategic pivots. We bring seasoned counsel and hands-on leadership to design governance frameworks, strengthen compliance and controls, and translate legal analysis into actionable business solutions.
Critical Decision-Making
Our engagements often arise at critical decision points. For example, we worked with PACS Group, Inc., a newly public, high-growth company facing significant external and internal scrutiny. Our CEO Kathy Lauer joined the executive leadership team as Interim Chief Compliance Officer to build a compliance program sufficient to satisfy the Board and external auditors, with a focus on revenue integrity and robust, sustainable controls, all amid multiple government investigations.
CEO Bio
For as long as I can remember, I have advocated for what I believe in. As a state finalist in debate and competitive speaking in high school, I learned both the art and science of logical analysis and began to use to that methodology to persuade people about my positions. A law career was in the making.
I was a member of the Honors Program at the University of Michigan, where I studied political science and set my sights on law school. I was proud to be accepted at Michigan Law School, noted among the top law schools in rankings by US News.
My path to big law was set when I nailed a summer associateship and subsequently was invited to join the firm of Latham & Watkins in 1988.
My initial work at Latham gave me an opportunity to specialize in healthcare law. Throughout my legal career and beyond it, I have focused on regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and complex risk assessment for business clients and as a board advisor, and most recently at the table in the boardroom.
Believing that contributing to my firm internally would concretely benefit my client base, I accepted the role of Global Chair of the firm’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice. I also became fully engaged in the development and evaluation of our people as Vice-Chair of Latham's Associates Committee with the mandate to evaluate our best and brightest for the partnership.
Additionally I founded a small business 16 years ago with a vision to make a success in the wine industry. I knew it was a tough business. I also knew that my partners were tough enough to go full throttle and I am proud of our commitment to build on this family office investment.
The decision to launch KL Boardroom Consulting was a natural extension to my legal career and orientation towards business problem solving.