About.
Born and raised in Ireland (she may have lost the accent, but never her love for a proper cuppa Irish tea), Lisa now calls Michigan, USA home. With experience working with over 10,000 leaders in 20+ countries, she brings a deeply global perspective to her work with leaders and teams.
Lisa believes pausing is a critical leadership act - and her work invites people to practice it with intention. She creates the kind of space where people can pause, reflect, and reconnect to what matters most. Through her speaking engagements, coaching, facilitation, and storytelling, she helps clients quiet the noise, anchor in their “why,” and move forward with clarity, intention, and a renewed sense of purpose.
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Biography.
Over the years, Lisa has crisscrossed the globe designing and delivering leadership development experiences that invite people to pause, reflect, and lead with greater intention. She’s known for her immersive workshops and keynotes, where she blends storytelling with practical insight to help leaders reconnect to what matters most - whether shaping a legacy or strengthening a team’s shared direction.
Lisa works with leaders supporting them to lead with authenticity, clarity, and a deeper sense of presence. Whether on stage, in a boardroom, or in a coaching conversation, her approach is grounded, insightful, and deeply human.
Global in experience and grounded in compassion, Lisa believes pausing is a critical leadership act. Her work invites people to step out of the noise, anchor in their “why,” and show up as the steady, wholehearted leaders their lives and work are asking for.
With 18+ years of experience in leadership development, coaching, and facilitation, Lisa collaborates with an impressive lineup of organizations:
Creator of The Leader’s Lens™ process that invites leaders to step back and examine a foundational question: What does my leadership actually look like to others? Lisa works to explore how leadership impact is shaped less by title or output, and more by presence, priorities, and the experience people have in our orbit. Through a structured and reflective process, leaders clarify their “why,” define their leadership identity, and translate it into a clear and actionable leadership lens. Moving from insight to application, leaders create a visual representation of their leadership - surfacing what deserves focus, what creates impact, and what may be adding noise rather than value.
Consultant for Harvard Business Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business school, she delivers virtual training that transforms leaders worldwide.
With the California Public Sector HR (CPS HR), she designs strategic solutions to modern leadership challenges. She serves as a instructor and provides virtual and in-person trainings on topics such as Micro-Storytelling, Human-Centered Leadership in the Age of AI, Stress Management, Team Development, Emotional Intelligence, Being the Steady Center as a Leader, and more.
Collaborates with CircleSpace / ForumSpace and the Young Presidents Organization(YPO) to serve as a certified Guide for cohorts of executives through multi-year journeys focused on holding space together, peer relationship building, shared wisdom, and collective development.
As a Program Coach with Decker Communications, she supports leaders honing on executive presence (presence being the key word). She supports their work to show up wholly and communicate with impact.
Consultant with Archetypes at Work™, where she explores the deeper patterns of human nature, co-designing and facilitating immersive workshops and one-on-one debriefs for senior executives. Archetypes are underlying patterns of human nature and experience. As such they are - often invisibly - "running the show". They are embedded in our inner motivations and mindset and deeply rooted in our values. The better we understand these patterns and the more consciously we use them, the more effective we will be. Lisa is a certified coach and member of the Archetypes at Work™ Guild of Practitioners. She is also a certified debriefer of the Archetypal Preferences™ Report (APR) .
Partnering with Olivier Mythodrama in the UK, she helps bring humanity back to the workplace through the stories from Shakespeare as the backdrop for deeply impactful leadership experiences.
She is a published author, her work has been featured in the International Library of Poetry. She is a professionally trained, award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in Smithsonian Magazine and National Geographic.
Lisa holds a Master’s in Humanities with a sub-specialty in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Lisa also holds two Bachelors degrees; a Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication and a Bachelor of Arts in French from Ohio University. She has been certified by Harvard Business Publishing in Coaching, Global Collaboration, Writing Skills, Project Management, and Stress Management. She also holds a certification in the Art of Intuitive Tarot and is a sourdough enthusiast.