Laura Saldivar Luna (she/her/ella) is a wife, mother, entrepreneur, coach, and a believer in limitless human potential. She is the founder and CEO of Piñata Possible, a transformational coaching practice committed to helping leaders access powerful breakthroughs to unprecedented possibility, well-being, and social good.

Laura spent nearly two decades as an educator and executive leader with Teach For America, teaching high school on the Texas-Mexico border, serving as the founding executive director of Teach For America in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, and leading human capital strategy as the organization’s national chief people officer. From the classroom to the boardroom, Laura has been a student of transformational leadership and an advocate for the conditions that enable human thriving. Her coaching, speaking, and writing focus on inspiring inward exploration of self to unlock powerful outward action and results.

Laura was the first member of her family to graduate from college. She attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, graduating with dual degrees in English and Spanish. After traveling the world, living in, and learning from, many beautiful communities, Laura now lives down the street from her parents in the same San Antonio, Texas neighborhood where she grew up. She and her husband, David, have two amazing children, three rambunctious corgis, and a whole lot of laughter in their house.