Inspiring Impact Through Video

Lauren Ready is a keynote speaker and the Principal Storyteller of Forever Ready Productions, a video production company with offices in Memphis and Chicago. The Forever Ready team works to tell stories for nonprofits and businesses so they can realize and harness their collective purpose and impact. Their mission-drive videos have helped nonprofits raise more than $15 million.

Lauren Ready started her TV news career as a production assistant at 17. She then spent the next ten years as a video journalist as she moved across Iowa, Nebraska, and Memphis to cover national breaking news.

Since leaving her TV news career and starting Forever Ready Productions in 2016, her company has received the Small Business of the Year Award from the Memphis Business Journal. Lauren has also won 5 regional Emmys and in 2019, was named Memphis Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40.

In 2022, she took home both the Indie Memphis Hometowner Documentary Shorts Jury and Audience Choice awards for her film “What We Will Never Know” about a teen who falsely confessed to murder. This was her fifth Indie Memphis trophy for documentaries, making her one of the most decorated filmmakers in the festival’s 25-year history. The film was also awarded ‘Best Social Justice Short Doc” by the Lane Doc Film Festival in 2022.

Today, Lauren is based in Memphis with her husband, Scott, and their son Max. She’s a certified drone pilot (by the way, only <6% of U.S. certified drone pilots are women — she loves being in this stat!), enjoys rock climbing, and without a doubt packs her camera for every family trip.