The “official” bio.

Lara Day is a writer and integrative coach with a focus on creativity, leadership, and wellbeing. She guides heart-centred artists, writers, and leaders to create transformational change from the inside out — helping them do their most meaningful work with less hustle, more flow, and deep joy.

Her journalism has appeared in TIME Magazine, Travel+Leisure, and other publications. At The Wall Street Journal, she served as digital arts editor for Asia, where her multimedia work won the prestigious Scripps Howard Award for Digital Innovation. She also contributed stories to the newspaper’s print editions, including a global cover story on papier-mâché pandas.

For five years she led the digital development and cross-platform content strategy of M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture, before its Herzog & de Meuron-designed building opened its doors in 2021. Her contributions to the museum field are featured in a chapter of The Digital Future of Museums: Conversations and Provocations (Routledge, 2020).

Lara holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of the Arts London. A NextGen Leadership Fellow at the Museum Leadership Institute, she has spoken at international conferences including Museum Next London and Asia Contemporary Art Week Dubai.

In her coaching practice, she blends modalities such as somatic IFS (Internal Family Systems), deep coaching, and integrative change work to help clients create profound, lasting shifts in their work and lives. She holds multiple coaching certifications and is a member of the International Association of Counsellors and Therapists.

Born and raised in Hong Kong to a Filipina mother and an English father, Lara now lives on Kaurna Country in the Adelaide Hills with her husband, two children, and two Hong Kong street cats.

She really, really loves crying.