The “official” bio.

Lara Day is a writer, coach, and digital strategist. She holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of the Arts London.

Her coaching clients include leading writers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs. She has delivered coaching and workshops for organisations such as the Cartier Women’s Initiative, the University of Michigan, and the University of Adelaide.

Before establishing her private coaching practice, Lara led the digital development and cross-platform content strategy of M+, Hong Kong’s newest and largest museum of 20th and 21st century visual culture.

Previously she steered online arts and cultural coverage for Asia at The Wall Street Journal, where her multimedia work won the prestigious Scripps Howard Award for Digital Innovation. She also wrote stories for the newspaper’s print editions, including a global cover story on papier-mâché pandas.

Lara’s writing has been featured in TIME Magazine, Travel+Leisure, and many other publications. Her contributions to the museum field are highlighted in The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations (Routledge, 2020).

She was a NextGen Leadership Fellow at the Museum Leadership Institute, and has been a speaker at international conferences including Asia Contemporary Art Week Dubai and Museum Next London. In South Australia, she has been an invited speaker and facilitator for cultural events such as the Nature Festival and the OzAsia Festival.

In addition to holding multiple coaching qualifications, Lara is a certified yoga teacher with a love for meditation, mindfulness, and indigenous wisdom traditions from around the world. A member of the International Association of Counsellors and Therapists, she is trained in hypnosis, deep coaching, integrative change work, and somatic IFS (internal family systems) parts work.

She was born and raised in Hong Kong to a Filipina mother and an English father. Now based on Kaurna Country, she lives with her husband, two children, and two Hong Kong street cats in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia.