Lenore Kantor – 60

About me

Lenore Kantor is President and Chief Growth Officer of Growth Warrior Ltd. Also known as The Work-Life Alchemist™, a life path guide, energetic alignment strategist, and business thought partner for high-achieving leaders seeking more authenticity and impact. She founded Growth Warrior to guide conscious leaders to more fulfillment and impact. Lenore is an inspirational speaker and author of So, What Do You Do? The Authentic Alchemy Path to Find Who You Are, a heart-centered user manual and companion workbook for seekers to create meaningful life and work. She has conducted extensive research on how high performers can redefine their relationship with work, worth, and identity to break free of unhelpful patterns and find more freedom, fulfillment, and flow, which will be explored in her next book (to be released in 2027).

Lenore’s five-step framework guides clients to claim their calling, self-author their story, measure success on their own terms, take aligned actions, and live by design. She integrates business positioning and leadership with embodied and energetic practices for soulful realignment. Her intuitive insights and grounded strategic perspective empower conscious leaders, soulpreneurs, and founders to create more balance, fulfillment, and purpose. For over thirty years, Lenore has acted as a strategic advisor, entrepreneur, and financial technology corporate executive, providing career guidance to students as a member of Columbia’s Coaching Collective and mentoring many founders across multiple startup accelerators. Lenore has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. She is available for private coaching, professional development programming, workshops, book talks, and more.

What do you do and why do you do it?

I help high-performing women leaders (business professionals, soulpreneurs, business owners, and founders) to redefine their relationship with work, worth, and identity to break free of unhelpful patterns and find more freedom, fulfillment, and flow. I’m a former corporate marketing executive who left the hustle and grind to find more fulfillment and authenticity. I help other leaders address that disconnect between how things may look successful on the outside, but feel deeply unsatisfying on the inside, to create their life by design, not default.

What changed for you after age 50?

After having my own business for a few years, I was finally able to start unwinding my attachment to my former corporate executive identity. I started to embrace my spirituality and wholeness, instead of needing to perform a version of myself for others.

What would you tell the 20 or 30-year-old YOU?

Believe in yourself more. Take some risks. Go after what you really want and stop compromising and settling for less than what you desire out of fear that you won’t get what you really want.

What do you think you’ll tell yourself in retrospect at the end of your life?

It’s time to surrender and go with peace and love in your heart, knowing that you accomplished what you came here to learn.

What impact do you think increased visibility can have on your business?

I’m mostly interested in getting in front of the right audience – those individuals who can most benefit from my message and medicine. I believe in synchronicity, and sometimes hearing or reading the right thing at the right time can open a doorway to a new direction. Creating opportunities for connection and introducing my ideas to those who might benefit is appealing. I’m a former communications professional, so in many ways, visibility is everything in helping others get to know you and think of you.

Who or what inspires you and why?

This may be a little esoteric, but right now I am feeling deeply connected to crystals – both for their connection to the earth and their healing powers. It started as fascination, which evolved into a passion project and a bit of an obsession. I’m on my third crystal training certification and just love connecting with stone medicine.

Something else I’d like to share

I’m pretty excited about how my research on high-performing leaders has been evolving to uncover certain adaptive patterns. Understanding where and how leaders have developed unhealthy strategies can help them shift toward greater fulfillment as they recognize the difference between acting out of default and projection vs. making conscious choices about how, where, when, and why they work.