Laura Burkemper

Business Strategist.

Laura Burkemper is a business and brand strategist, startup investor, speaker, and CEO of SCALEBLAZER®, helping entrepreneurs and corporate innovators turn bold ideas into investable, scalable businesses. Known for pioneering the Investable Storytelling™ method, she helps leaders connect narrative, strategy, and market opportunity to earn support and communicate business value. Her experience includes work with Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Express Scripts, more than two decades advising leaders across industries, and investments in more than 80 emerging ventures. She also spent 12 years as a Senior Adjunct Professor in an MBA program, teaching future leaders to evaluate opportunities and scale with strategic clarity. Her approach connects feasibility, brand alignment, and investor communication: understand the problem, test the opportunity, and make the story clear. Burkemper is a best-selling co-author of Empathy & Understanding in Business alongside Chris Voss. Beyond business, she made her Broadway debut as a producer of When My Soul Speaks, featuring Lisa Nichols. Based in the St. Louis area, she begins her mornings with gratitude. For more information, visit scaleblazer.com.

• Investable Storytelling
• Brand Capital
• Business Feasibility

Featured publication

Empathy and Understanding in Business

The book promises to challenge conventional business literature by highlighting the pivotal roles of empathy, emotional intelligence, and human connection in fostering prosperous and sustainable enterprises.

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