Elaine Lou Business and Career Coach

Ended Q1 shedding off dead weight 🐍 and I’ve been ascending ever since 🐴

Thanks for this new energy 🔥

Back in the 909 keynoting for the SoCal Amazon Women’s Conference 🎤

Swipe for what people had to say & a pic of me and .natividad in 8th grade 👧🏻🧒🏻

➡️ Replay dropping soon on my podcast, join my newsletter to be alerted: elainelou.com/newsletter

🎥: .us and
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70 seats. A waitlist of 20. Is this how Beyoncé & Taylor Swift feel? 😳 I’m the keynote speaker for the SoCal Women’s Leadership Conference & this one is full circle.

This conference is organized by the SBD6 team in Ontario, California.
Where I grew up.
Where my parents still live.
Where I went to Howard Elementary & Oaks Middle School ( )

And when I did a little research, I found out that on the opening day of the Amazon SBD6 building, the band performed.

The same band my two band geek brothers played in.
I was the orch dork with the violin.

My parents will FINALLY get to watch me keynote.
In their backyard.

The last time they got to see me speak in their backyard was my Valedictorian graduation speech at Oaks Middle School! 🥹 I was 13.

➡️ My talk? I’ll be talking about emotional intelligence, executive presence and communication through a lens that retail and operation leaders actually speak: supply chain logic applied to people. Fun fact, one of my first jobs was working at See’s Candies.

This is my Conscious Conversations® framework, it’s what I bring into Fortune 500 companies, leaders and teams and why I have 300+ client reviews.

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Training for the 2030 Winter Olympics. TBH this sign is closest thing I’ll get to my Gold Medal 😂 ⛷️

23 days into 2026, I’ve already hit 63% of last year’s cash flow. How? Not by being loud but by having executive presence.

Here’s the truth:
I’ve lost and won contracts (sometimes with the same vendor).
I’ve lost and won pitches.
But I’ve never focused on “winning.”
I focus on relationships, trust and results.

Before coaching?
I was a fundraiser who raised $11 million.

Now?
I’ve got 300+ client reviews (you can check out my 2 IG highlight reels ⬆️ titled “Client Results”)
because I help leaders and business owners
close contracts without becoming someone they’re not.

Since 2020, too many people are trying to impress instead of connect.

Default checklist mode looks like:
❌ Post daily
❌ Go to all the events
❌ Repeat the same elevator pitch to everyone

But here’s what buyers really want especially now:
👉 Clear communication
👉 Real alignment
👉 Someone who builds trust and delivers results

That’s why I’m teaming up with for a 2-hour, hands-on workshop:

🎤 How to Get Contracts Using Executive Presence

This isn’t a lecture.
It’s not a motivational talk.
(It’s also not boring — we’ll laugh. I love improv 😉)

You’ll leave with:
✅ Real scripts
✅ Proven strategies
✅ Tools you can use immediately to close contracts

📅 Thurs, Jan 29
⏰ 10AM–12PM PST
📍 800 W 6th St #1010, DTLA
💰 Free to attend

🎟 Register at elainelou.com/contracts

📸: With my brother from another mother, D’Angelo of who I highly recommend, I mean look at this pic 😍

Christmas tip for toddlers: Don’t buy them gifts, just give them used gift wrapping paper (🎥last video).

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Happy Holidays,
FUN-Auntie

Big News! I’m heading to Dubai next week to speak at 🇦🇪

I’ll be on a panel speaking about, “The Skillset of Tomorrow: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet,” and MCing the Pitch Stage.

As a business and executive coach who’s coached 20k+ leaders (and seen how burnout disguises itself as productivity), I’ll be sharing:

Why it’s not just about AI, but EI (Emotional Intelligence) that will define this next chapter of how we work and what it means to lead with profit, process and people in mind.

Through my Conscious Conversations® framework, I help founders and leaders integrate emotional intelligence into innovation reminding us that AI may predict patterns, but only humans build trust.

Excited for the panel discussion I’ll have with Adil-Ul Islam, Mohammed Benzakour, Abhilasha Singh, Ahmed Metwoali and Hemant Pandey on this.

As an MC, I’ll be cheering on founders and innovators, and making sure I bring the fun into it.

I’m so honored to be discussing and bridging AI + EI (emotional intelligence) on the global stage because the future of work isn’t about smarter tech, but more conscious humans. 

🇦🇪 If you’ll be in Dubai, come say hi!

🎤 To check out the heavy hitters I’m sharing the stage with and to register click here: https://fnctn1.com/speakers

PS. Sorry I will not be in this outfit 😜, this was clearly generated by AI.

Filipino American History Month 🇵🇭 and 8 Year Anniversary Dump ♥️

1. Can’t believe this is OUR Motherland
2. Woke up to this every morning
3. Cooking lesson with Chef Jerick on Sisig
4. Exploring caves (not shown: bat 💩)
5. Lechon everyday (not going to the dr for a while 😉)
6. What a wonderful surprise to walk into
7. Sunrise kanoe
8. Woke up to jackfish always attacking our neighbors 🙄, it’s ok we ate jackfish
9. Learned how to peri-wheel fish, and the 1 fish I caught a barracuda ate 😩
10. Private island dinner
11. Lots of this 😜
12. Chef Jerick and Restaurant Manager Pauline TOOK CARE OF US. Customer service 5 ⭐️ s
13. Learned to scuba dive for the 1st time, thank u Wilson
14. .82’s attempt to leave accounting as an artist 🎨 thoughts on his 🐼?
15. Fun fact: My 2nd time here, his 1st time, safe to say we’ll be back every decade

Summary and unpopular opinion: El Nido > Hawaii

Late post cause I 100% wanted to be present and take it all in ✨ Plus this past week was focused on the Dodgers 🤍💙

Their love is so hot, we celebrated by a volcano🌋 😎 Congrats and . Thanks for giving me us excuse to go back to the motherland 🇵🇭

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