Helping Businesses Grow

International Awards Won

Years Scaling Brands

Businesses

Grown

Lauren is the driving force behind Melbourne-based Megaphone, a full-service digital marketing agency recognised with 46+ international awards in 2022 alone - including Employer of the Year, Company of the Year, and Most Innovative Agency of the Year.

With 8+ years helping grow 6 & 7-figure businesses (from Alias Mae and Lululemon to Make-A-Wish and OzHarvest) Lauren is an undisputed expert in digital marketing and business scaling.

As a role model to ambitious professionals all over Australia, Lauren is committed to empowering other entrepreneurs and helping them achieve their goals.

She offers 1-on-1 mentoring for fellow business leaders, capitalising on decades of her own learnings in Australia, New York, and New Zealand, and leaning on her diverse real-world business experience to help her peers fast-track their success.

Lauren’s day-to-day is scaling brands to new heights. To get to this point, she’s always operated under a single north star: never stop learning. Lauren doesn’t just live and breathe personal development; she’s instilled a learning-driven culture for her 100+ Megaphone team members as well.

By ensuring that her team is constantly hunting for innovation, and building 2022’s “Most Innovative Learning and Development Program”, she’s paved the way for Megaphone to be nationally recognised for exceptional customer service for four consecutive years.

While her focus is selfless, Lauren has no shortage of individual accolades. 

While accepted humbly, her strong leadership has deservedly received several awards – not to mention recognition among the business community.

Honouring her efforts, since 2020, Lauren has been crowned a 5-time global Stevie Award winner — including 2022’s Woman of the Year, 2022’s Executive of the Year, and 2022’s People-focused CEO of the Year.

She’s also been shortlisted in the B&T Women Leading Tech Awards (Executive Leader category). 

Lauren’s love for community and connecting with like-minded people is what fuels her fire. She firmly believes that you should “give 90% of your ideas away for free and then teach the execution”.

Discover your potential, starting now. With persuasive communication, anything is possible.

Become a better salesperson, a better storyteller, and a better communicator.

The key to success – in business and in life – is being able to sell. Not just sell products or services, but sell yourself and your point of view.

That’s why Lauren created the More Than Sales course – a 31-lesson deep dive into how to improve your communication and achieve any conversation goal.

The course explores topics like building rapport, negotiation handling objections, paralinguistics, dealing with your own hesitations, following up, closing, and so much more.

Using the skills and techniques shared in More Than Sales, Lauren has signed thousands of businesses, trained Australia’s top agency talent, and built strong industry relationships along the way.

If you want to improve your communication and your relationships, this course will help. If you want more sales, this course will give you the tools to get them.

Shopify recorded a record $7.5 billion in global sales during last year’s holiday season. And 92% of Australian shoppers are likely to try a new brand during the seasonal sales.

That means that you need to start thinking about Black Friday now.

Lauren was invited to speak at the 2023 DTCx Conference

Watch her full Black Friday strategy reveal here.

Hear what Lauren's peers & clients have to say

Sarah Williams

Lauren is a fantastic mentor, leader and role model for women in business - and I am greatly privileged to be able to work alongside her. Her work ethic and continuous drive to learn and educate herself and those around her is beyond inspiring, and I am very grateful for the influence she has had in developing my professional career.

Lauren Lietzow

I've had the honour of working with Lauren for the past two years, and she has been an incredible asset - not only to my own growth, but the business itself. She is a fantastic leader, and very insightful when it comes to the efficiency and productivity of our entire team. 

brands have scaled locally and internationally, thanks to Lauren’s help. Could yours be next?

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