Building mentally healthy, resilient workplaces through evidence-based training and leadership development.
We partner with employers, schools, and public-serving organizations to strengthen mental health literacy, leadership capacity, and sustainable workplace culture.
Our Core Services
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✔ Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training
Evidence-based certification training for organizations, schools, and communities. Teaches how to identify, understand, and respond to mental health challenges.
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Inner Leadership & Self-Regulation Training
Leadership that starts with awareness, regulation, and responsibility.
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Key Note Speaking
Laura Newman challenges conventional leadership and wellness narratives by naming the invisible emotional forces that shape behavior. Through accessible psychology and compelling storytelling, Laura invites audiences to develop inner leadership — the ability to stay grounded, values-driven, and relationally steady when life gets hard.
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Mental Health Coaching
Mental health coaching offers a supportive, skills-based space to understand emotional patterns, strengthen resilience, and develop healthier ways of relating to yourself and others. Coaching focuses on growth, insight, and forward movement — not diagnosis or treatment.
Why Strong Culture?
Strong Culture was founded by Laura Newman, MSCJ, BHS, a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor, trauma educator, leadership trainer, and program manager with more than a decade of experience supporting schools, state agencies, nonprofits, families, and youth-serving programs.
Laura combines:
Lived experience in the child welfare system
Professional expertise in behavioral health, juvenile justice, wellness, and policy
Delivery of statewide training across DHS, DCF, DOC, DOA, UW campuses, healthcare teams, and community organizations
Experience training educators, leaders, caregivers, social workers, and youth programs
A trauma-informed, culturally responsive approach rooted in compassion, clarity, and real-world application
This combination makes Strong Culture uniquely trustworthy, relatable, and effective.
People trust Laura because she can teach the research and the reality of trauma, mental health, and human behavior.
