Lauren Jacobson Mummy, BA, MA

 

Lauren is the CEO of both Licensed To Healâ, Inc (LTHâ) and Symmetry. She manages the market planning, advertising, public relations, and sales promotion, and facilitates staff services.  She evaluates the competition, identifies new markets, corporate scope, and market research, and sets strategies.

She has over ten years experience as a marketing and communications expert specializing in promotional marketing and client outreach.  She has successfully owned and operated her own consulting business prior to her involvement with LTHâ and Symmetry, and has worked as a professional coach and speaker for an international human development firm. Her career includes presentations as a motivational speaker to corporations.

She earned her degree in comparative literature and psychology at Pace University in New York, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude.  She received Pace University’s Award for Excellence in Writing and Composition; Playwright Elect; Theater Award; Honors Society Literature/Communications Award; Undergraduate Award for Literary Excellence; and was their Nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship.  She was elected to the Pace Honors Society (1987-1992); the National Speakers Association; Alpha Chi; Sigma Tau Delta; and Dyson Fellow of Arts and Sciences.  She received First Class Deans List merit certificates every semester for four years consecutively. 

She served as Pace University’s award-winning literary magazine’s Chief Writer and Editor, and was published for poetry, fiction and essays in The Redhillian, The Weekly Newspaper; Vox; and The Other One.

She earned her Masters degree in English and Journalism from New York University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.  Excerpts of her novel, Amandla!, were featured in Icarus,  NYU’s award winning publication.

As foreign correspondent and special interests reporter for a Connecticut-based weekly newspaper, she was sent to South Africa in 1994 to cover the first-ever democratic elections. Her cover story earned her the award “most valuable journalist,” and set the record for the highest readership recorded to date.

She has successfully completed two novels. She has served as a professor of English; comparative literature; creative, prose, and business writing; speech communications; critical theory; rhetorical studies; and editing techniques at UCSD Extension, National University, and San Diego State University.

Her passion for excellence, combined with her focus and determination gives her a creative and entrepreneurial vision for creating and maintaining performance excellence. Her proven track record in leadership and motivation equips LTHâ and Symmetry with the essential infrastructure for success.