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meet the Founder & chief executive officeR

Laura London

I love collaborating and building community to tackle important things. I describe my career as a combination of luck and love for making workplaces better by prioritizing people. Decades of experience working with leading companies and learning at top institutions taught me that strategic leadership is only sustainable when leaders model it, teams share it, and systems reinforce it. My fascination with what makes good leaders great led me to pursue advanced degrees in Management, Change Leadership, and Education and certifications in Executive Coaching and Forest Therapy. I love helping leaders, teams, and companies reset and rejuvenate with nature and love, especially at our magical nature retreat.

In 2024 I launched Calocedrus and our retreat property in Northern California, one hour north of my home where I live with my husband and two children. We love living the mountain life, skiing and sitting by the fire in the winter, and hiking, biking, sailing and camping when warmer. Finding the property of our dreams to build a nature retreat was like a shared dream coming to life, a beautiful gift that we are grateful for.

In 2025 I immersed myself in research about AI, leadership, and the future of work. One insight became clear: great leaders will transform through the most powerful human quality: love. Leading with love is a science-backed way to boost both performance and human potential. From this realization, the Reset and Big Love Leadership were born.

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My purpose is simple: help high-achievers rise up and rewire for sustainable results with love.

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Meet the team

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Caroline Starner Dadras

Chief Love ADVISOR

Caroline is a recognized innovator and visionary in organizational effectiveness and talent strategy, with over 30 years of executive leadership experience in both global blue-chip corporations and mid-cap private companies across multiple industries. A three-time CHRO, she brings forward-thinking, future-focused insight to complex business challenges, combining strategic leadership with a deep understanding of people and culture.

As President of Starner 2.0 Inc., Caroline advises CEOs on aligning talent strategy with business priorities to drive value. By surfacing and simplifying complex issues, she facilitates transformative conversations about what truly matters, enabling the creation of high-impact and loving cultures.

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Louise Hansell

Chief Love COACH

Louise is an executive leadership coach and facilitator with over 25 years of experience in leadership and human transformation. She partners with individuals and teams across multiple industries, countries, and cultures, integrating her leadership experience, mastery in facilitation and coaching, and a lived path of personal transformation into every engagement, which creates space for profound growth and new possibilities.

As Founder and President of Flourish Group, Louise helps leaders and change makers live and lead from their highest potential. She is known for leading with love and creating safe spaces that empower leaders to bring their full selves, step into authentic power, and realize their highest possibility.

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our approach

Big Love Partnerships

Our partnership philosophy can best be summarized by the term “leading from behind” where we support turning vision into reality by coming to terms with the issues, challenges, and opportunities that clients want to address.

Consulting serves as a “strategy partnership” to achieve organizational goals by empowering leaders and teams to boost both human potential and performance.

Coaching serves as an "accountability partnership" to sharpen vision and overcome obstacles, limiting beliefs, blind spots, and triggers, achieving developmental goals.

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Calocedrus is the scientific name for the incense-cedar tree that flourishes at Cedar Camp & Sanctuary, our private property. It is an important tree dating back to indigenous tribes whose distinct aroma from the wood is believed to dispel negative energies, cleanse spaces, and shield individuals.

Calocedrus are also known to provide high levels of phytoncides that boost the human immune system, reduce stress, and improve mood and sleep. As a plant that has ensured the survival of people for thousands of years, it’s a powerful symbol of wisdom, connectedness, and revitalization.

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Why Calocedrus?

Let’s rise together.

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