Lisa is passionate about her work (20+ years) as a leadership coach and culture change consultant, serving leaders and highly skilled professionals in healthcare, biopharma, biomedical, academic, financial services, asset management, retail, and non-profit sectors. Lisa understands that leaders at all levels shape the work environment and that leadership and organizational culture go hand in hand. Lisa’s mission: to enable leaders to bring out the best in themselves and their people so they create win-win relationships with one another and the organization.
Whether working with a biotech startup, an established non-profit or a Fortune 500, organizations move through predictable stages of growth or transition. Using custom approaches to address what is needed, Lisa serves as:
- Leadership Coach (one-on-one, senior teams, and assessments)
- Change Consultant (culture, organizational design, and talent development and management) and
- Expert Facilitator (board discussions, team development, strategic planning)
- Keynote Speaker (on leadership, teams, executive performance and culture)
Lisa is pleased to announce that her new book on career development, “Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won’t Get from Your Boss” was released in June 2017. She has recently published articles in Forbes, LadyBossBlogger and NativeAdVantage, has upcoming articles in The Economist and Success Magazine, and has been interviewed on the Price of Business and Korelin Economics Report radio shows. Lisa is published in the volume, Research in Management Consulting, her research summary of career development strategies was published by Boston University’s Graduate School of Management.
Lisa has been on the Steering Committee of the Executive Development Roundtable at Boston University and brings a unique blend of line management and leadership development experience. At Bank Boston (now Bank of America), she honed her leadership skills as Chief of Staff, Corporate and Community Affairs, where she acted as the business officer for an 80-person, $25 million division of the bank. The group’s best practices won it the US Department of Commerce’s Ron Brown Award for Corporate Responsibility. She also served in other roles at Bank Boston, including Human Resources Project leader for a major merger. Previous to consulting, she was responsible for leading research projects at Harvard University and served as a resident advisor to undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A lifelong learner, Lisa is certified in numerous leadership assessments and approaches, including the Hogan Assessment, the Leadership Versatility Index, the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory and the Corentus Team Coaching methodology. Most recently, she spent time in Helsinki, Finland and Lisbon, Portugal, earning certifications in cross-cultural communication and quantitative organizational culture measurement. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Fairfield University and Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Boston University and lives in Newton, MA with her husband and two children and recently completed her first marathon.
