Laura has an exceptional ability to zoom out and connect design decisions to broader business outcomes, while staying grounded in user needs. She asks sharp, thoughtful questions that consistently elevate the conversation and her work and impact span product, engineering, leadership, and design. Any organization would be lucky to have her.

Laura was my manager for two years at Sojern, and I cannot recommend working with her highly enough. She is passionate and highly motivated, always going above and beyond to better her workplace, deliver high-quality work, improve efficiency, advocate for her team, and provide opportunities for learning and career development.

I can not say enough amazing things about Laura! She is hardworking, thoughtful, strategic, and a great team player. I have had the privilege to work with her for the past 4 years and have enjoyed partnering with her on a variety of projects including social media campaigns, SEO, webinars, website redesign, rebranding just to name a few.

I had the privilege of managing Laura while she led our Creative and Brand teams—and she is one of the most talented and inspiring creative leaders I’ve worked with. She’s also everyone’s favorite manager—collaborative, thoughtful, and a natural mentor to countless people (myself included, even when I was her manager). I feel lucky to have worked alongside her and can’t recommend her highly enough.

Creative, passionate, curious, problem solver, doer - those are just a few of the words that automatically come to mind when I think of Laura. I always look forward to a chance to work and collaborate with Laura on creative or business challenges. She dives deeply into everything she does and can take in new information and evolve her thinking and strategize in almost any situation.

Laura is an absolute joy to work with - the enthusiasm, creativity, and heart she brings makes her an asset to her team and company. I always tapped Laura when I needed someone to help me think through innovative, new projects that we'd never done before, because she always had great suggestions and ideas - and most importantly, knew the timing and resources we would need to accomplish it.

Laura is one of the most dynamic personalities I have ever met. Her enthusiasm for branding, people and pushing the boundaries is inspiring.

If you have Laura on your team, you know you are in for something special!

From day one, Laura was a clear rockstar. She immediately entered with enthusiasm and loads of experience. She elevated our entire ad design program, bringing a thoughtful strategy to our entire company with thoughtful A/B testing strategies & improved efficiencies. What is most impressive about Laura is that she continued over her time at Sojern to elevate her team, our strategy, and frankly, the entire business.

Laura is an extremely creative individual with a great sense of design and style. Her understanding of brand importance and the power of simplicity were very effective in creating the brand guideline for our company. Her thorough attention to detail provided us with the entire brand package that we needed to launch our new website.

As Laura’s employee at XOTIC PC Inc., I’ve benefited from her patience, even-handedness and enthusiasm. She clearly took into account individual’s skills or capabilities in assigning tasks. When necessary or under pressure, she remained patient in giving direction and provided even-handed understanding when difficulties arose.

Laura Barker is one of the most organized and dependable professionals I’ve had the privilege of working with. She consistently stays on top of every detail, communicates clearly, and follows through on her commitments without exception. I can always count on Laura to respond promptly, meet deadlines, and step in to support her teammates whenever needed.

Working with Laura has been a highlight of my time at Sojern. Laura challenges assumptions thoughtfully, always ensuring decisions are rooted in customer and company needs. She builds strong, collaborative teams and introduces processes that create real time and cost savings. Any organization would benefit immensely from her talent and leadership.

What makes Laura exceptional as a design leader is how she empowers everyone around her to succeed. Whenever I brought new ideas to the table, she encouraged my exploration, made sure I had access to the tools and resources I needed, and showed up as a true partner on every initiative - her hands on approach and appetite for learning along with you as the product design industry evolves is truly admirable.

I have had the absolute pleasure of working under Laura Barker's leadership at Sojern, and I can confidently say that she is the most inspiring and supportive Creative Leader/Manager I've ever encountered.

Easily one of the bubbliest, brightest and most brilliant individual I've ever had to work with. I worked with Laura during my period as a Senior AM and Team Lead at Sojern. She was a huge help in one of the biggest Coop deals in the history of our company and rallying many individuals / stakeholders to project plan the creative execution across a multi property campaign.

Laura and I worked together for two years and a half, she was a great manager with a unique enthusiasm and optimism for any project. She is a gifted leader: she expertly managed our design team for years, she is smart and analytic, fast and responsive, and a real team player.

Laura has all the qualities of a good manager. Her professional approach and the methodological way she works through problems is extremely valuable. Her positive energy and attitude towards work and life also often inspire peers around her. During periods when the team might have been stretched, Laura’s support and empathy is something the team has always valued.

Laura is a phenomenal graphic designer and teammate. While working together at Sojern, I immediately noticed Laura's infectiously positive personality and enthusiasm for her work. She always goes above and beyond to deliver high impact results on projects, exceeding all expectations.

Laura is one of those people that you look forward to meeting with because she is the rare mix of high aptitude partnered with infectious attitude. I not only respected Laura because she was always working to strike that perfect balance between doing right by the company and by the customer, but also because she was such a competent professional.

Laura is simply the best! She comes to work everyday with an energy and enthusiasm that is contagious and refreshing. But beyond that, she takes pride in her work and strives to exceed your expectation on the project at hand.

Laura does great work - she's proactive and pays attention to the details. She also has great ideas and creativity. I enjoyed working with her because I could always count on her to find data to back up a strategy and then execute that strategy with excellence. I truly hope I get to work with Laura again.

I had the pleasure of working alongside Laura for a short amount of time. However, I was blown away by the professionalism and creativity she brought to the table. Laura's eye for design and marketing is top tier. I learned so much while working with her. the knowledge I gained by working alongside Laura has made me a stronger employee in my field.

Laura is truly a dream stakeholder for a project manager. She communicates, follows through, embraces change, and loves finding a better, simpler way to work. Laura and I share a love of taking a messy process and figuring out how to make it actually work, which has made her one of my favorite people to partner with.

Laura is an exceptional design leader and one of the most effective partners I’ve worked with. She’s thoughtful, decisive, and deeply invested in building strong teams and processes that actually work.