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 in over 20 countries, Lisa truly embodies the spirit of a global citizen. Her talent for storytelling, facilitation, and coaching helps her clients see their own journey more clearly — and craft the next chapter of their lives with purpose and creativity.
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“We become the stories we tell ourselves.”
— Michael Cunningham
What does the world need that your unique self can provide? Can you bring your whole self to your whole life?
What stories are you telling yourself that are no longer serving you?
What could you do in this time and in this place if you told yourself and others a new story?
And better yet, if you actually believed that story to be true?
Biography
Over the years, Lisa has crisscrossed the globe designing and delivering leadership development programs. She’s known for her unique workshops, where she uses innovative storytelling techniques to capture a leader’s legacy or celebrate a team’s shared spirit.
With 17+ years of experience in leadership development, coaching, and mentoring, Lisa collaborates with an impressive lineup of organizations:
As an independent leadership 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 at providing curated 1-day virtual trainings on topics such as Team Development, Emotional Intelligence, and Enhancing Productivity in a virtual landscape.
Partnering with Olivier Mythodrama in the UK, she helps bring humanity back to the workplace through deeply impactful programs.
Working with Archetypes at Work™, 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) .
As a Program Coach with Decker Communications, she supports individuals in honing their communication skills, both in-person and virtually.
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.
As a strategic advisor to Tangelic, an award-winning non-profit organization, she helps empower communities with clean energy and sustainability solutions to combat climate change and energy poverty.
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.
Lisa works one-on-one with executives, entrepreneurs, and artists, guiding them to lead with authenticity and create more meaningful, integrated lives. Whether in a corporate boardroom or a personal coaching session, Lisa’s approach is always warm, insightful, and deeply impactful.
Global in experience, grounded in compassion, and passionate about helping others shine, Lisa is all about bringing the whole self to the whole of life—and inspiring others to do the same.