Rise Early

Navigate your career with clarity, purpose, and practical tools to succeed

Welcome to Rise Early — a space for women in social impact who are ready to build careers and lives that reflect how they work best, what they care most about, and the life they want to lead.

Whether you're job hunting, shifting direction, or feeling stuck, this is a place to take grounded, strategic steps forward.

Here, we move beyond external expectations and ambition that feels disconnected. Through mentorship and strategic guidance, I support women navigating transitions, pivots, and next steps with clarity, confidence, and a sense of empowerment that will attract the roles that you want.

Whether you're seeking more alignment, more impact, or simply more honesty and meaning in your work, Rise Early is an invitation to start by listening to yourself — and to create a path rooted in your values, your skills, and what matters most to you.

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About Me

I’m Anna Laurash — a mentor, strategist, and guide for purpose-driven women navigating their next chapter.

Over the past decade, I’ve built a successful career across the UN system, multilateral institutions, and the private sector to design global partnerships and development programs. My work has taken me across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia, where I’ve helped bring together partners across sectors to create real impact.

Behind every pivot I've taken has been a deeper search for alignment — and through that process, I’ve discovered how powerful clarity, confidence, and self-trust can be. Not just for shaping your path, but for redefining success on your own terms.

Now, through Rise Early, I help other women do the same: build careers that feel aligned — not performative — and create lives rooted in who they truly are.

My approach

Rise Early blends strategy with self-awareness. Sustainable success starts with knowing yourself.

Blending strategic guidance with holistic tools like Human Design, intention-setting, and habit-building, Rise Early offers mentorship for those ready to build careers that feel true to who they really are - grounded in clarity and aligned with what matters most.

Whether you're seeking clarity around your next steps or support turning an idea into action, my role is part mentor, part mirror, part strategist — helping you see what’s possible, and how to get there in a way that works for you.

Support that meets you where you are

Services

Assessment

Personalized Evaluation

Mentorship

A 60-minute foundational session to help you step back, reflect, and connect with what feels right and where you want to go.

We’ll explore where you are, what’s working (and what’s not), and what direction feels aligned with your values, energy, and goals.

What’s included:

Pre-session reflection form
Optional Human Design snapshot
Values-based coaching conversation
Personalized follow-up summary

A 3-session series to support you through transitions, big decisions, or moments of uncertainty.
We move through the Rise Early framework:

Explore – uncover your values, needs, and career goals
Integrate – apply new perspectives and design aligned habits and actions
Activate – define your next steps with clarity and confidence

Tailored Guidance

Storytelling & Strategy

Career Materials and Narrative Support

Clear, practical help refining your professional story—whether it’s for job applications, your LinkedIn bio, or a CV refresh.

Includes: Strategy call (30–45 mins) and document/page review and narrative guidance

My process

Consultation

Before our first session, you’ll fill out a short intention form. You’ll also have the option to share your Human Design details (birth date, time, location) so I can offer tailored insights about how you’re wired to work, make decisions, and move through transitions.

Don’t worry if you’re new to Human Design—it’s just one of many tools we can explore together.

Co-Collaboration

I don’t offer one-size-fits-all advice. Our work is collaborative and responsive to where you are right now. Together, we surface what’s feeling stuck or difficult, clarify what you truly want, and map out strategies that feel honest and energizing.

We may draw from tools like Human Design - unpacking your energy type or decision-making style - or explore simple practices and mindset shifts to help you move forward with more clarity and trust in yourself.

Integration

After each session, you’ll receive a short follow-up with reflection prompts, curated resources, and grounded next steps. These might include insights from your Human Design chart, personal rituals, or new practices to support practical action. The goal isn’t just aligning your career with what lights you up - it’s sustainable success on your terms. Success that feels nourishing, not depleting.

Exploring Human Design

Human Design is a system that blends ancient wisdom with modern science to help you understand how your energy works and how you’re designed to make decisions, use your time, and navigate the world with more ease.

It combines:

The science of your birth data (like astrology)
The chakra system (energy centers)
The I Ching (ancient wisdom around change and potential)
Quantum physics + genetics (how we receive and transmit energy)

The result is a personalized “energetic blueprint” that helps you understand your unique strengths, how you best make decisions, where you’re most likely to burn out, and what kind of work patterns or environments help you thrive.

New to Human Design?

No problem. I’ll guide you through it gently and only include what’s useful for your path. My goal is to distill this complex system into clear, grounded insights that support your growth, decision-making, and professional path.

Success Stories

“As someone completely new to Human Design, I was a bit skeptical, I must admit. However, I was amazed at how well it fit my personality. Anna's analysis and career guidance, followed by our conversation, truly helped me realize that I shouldn't go against the way I naturally approach life and make decisions. For the first time, I saw it as an asset rather than as something to change. Definitely useful as I embark on the next chapter of my career.”