The “official” bio.

Lara Day is an author, coach, and digital strategist who helps kind, ambitious, creative humans do Big Beautiful Work – with less hustle, more flow, and more joy.

She holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of the Arts London. Since 2024 she has partnered with the Cartier Women’s Initiative, supporting the wellbeing of women impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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.

Her contributions to the museum field are featured in the book 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 addition to holding multiple coaching certifications, Lara is a qualified yoga teacher with a love for meditation and mindfulness, and a member of the International Association of Counsellors and Therapists.

She is based on Kaurna Country, in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia, where she lives with her young family and two Hong Kong street cats.

She is currently writing a book about home.

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