Prior to starting The League, Lawler served in positions such as Chief People Officer in technology companies, Managing Director of a global consulting practice, a variety of executive positions running turnarounds, Director in an executive search practice, and a stint doing M&A strategy consulting. He started his career in a Customer Service position at a Japanese multi-national while simultaneously running a socially responsible import firm out of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He has also written two books, Passion at Work (Pearson Prentice Hall), which led to a belonging workshop business servicing firms such as Cisco, HP, and Pfizer, and The E Ticket, a fictional thriller that has been hailed as being “a groundswell for the next wave of feminism.”