Laraine McKinnon
Founder of LMC17 & President of The Women’s CLUB of Silicon Valley
Laraine McKinnon is founder of LMC17, a strategic consulting firm that blends behavioral science, big data and practical implementation ideas to address hard to solve problems. The firm currently focuses on HR initiatives that drive employee engagement: diversity & inclusion, key talent processes such as hiring, retention and promotion, talent development for under-served populations, and retirement readiness.
Laraine is also an Advisor and Talent & Culture Strategist for Emtrain, a CultureTech firm focused on creating healthy workplace cultures. Laraine guides progressive companies through initiatives for sexual harassment prevention, diversity, inclusion & belonging, and managing unconscious bias, and delivers data and insights on their unique workplace behavioral dynamics to help uncover blind spots and opportunities to create more respectful workplaces.
Prior to these roles, Laraine was a Managing Director at BlackRock where she worked with HR and Finance executives at Fortune 500 companies to optimize retirement readiness. Laraine specialized in using 401(k) plans to increase employee engagement, improve workforce management, and deliver better outcomes in retirement. She is the author of “Known: How to Create a Great 401(k)” and serves as an Advisor to Betterment for Business.
In a volunteer capacity, Laraine is President of The CLUB Silicon Valley, a diverse community of professionals helping women leaders accelerate their careers. She founded and runs the CLUB’s talent Incubator to help high-performing, high-potential women get around career roadblocks and become known for their expertise.
Laraine was named a Silicon Valley Business Times “Woman of Influence" in 2018 and holds a women's studies and political science degree from Wellesley College, and a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion for HR from Cornell University.
Laraine McKinnon
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Behavioral finance and investment theory tell us exactly how to design the 401(k) plan to enable retirement readiness for millions of employees. So why aren’t most 401(k) plans optimized? Known: How to Create a Great 401(k) explores that question, bridging insights from academia with real world organizational behavior to provide practical advice for plan sponsors and advisors looking to drive decisions to improve retirement outcomes. Author Laraine McKinnon brings her unique perspective to this hard-to-solve problem, drawing upon her experience as a 401(k) plan sponsor, decades of experience in retirement investing and hundreds of hours of strategic discussions with many of the largest 401(k) plan sponsors in the US. McKinnon provides compelling proof points to three overarching concepts: Why we must grow savings, drive diversification, prevent leaks and reduce unnecessary risks in the 401(k) How we can implement learnings from behavioral science to influence decision-makers and improve the 401(k) structure Why improving 401(k) plans in this way is a “win-win-win” (for the participant, their employer, and America)
Contact Laraine:
Founder & CEO, LMC17
Talent & Culture Strategist, Emtrain
President, The CLUB Silicon Valley
Founder, The CLUB Incubator
Phone: 415 246 5960
Email: laraine@lmc17consulting.com
Website: lmc17consulting.com
