Let's Bring This Conversation to Your Audience
The best conference sessions don't just inform people, they reach them. They name something the audience has been carrying, offer a new way to look at it, and send people back into their work and their lives with a little more clarity and a lot more confidence.
Some speakers inform. Lisa tends to start a conversation that keeps going after the room clears. What she brings isn't just performance, it's presence. She reads the energy, responds to what she's feeling from the crowd, and creates the kind of back-and-forth that turns a presentation into a real conversation. People leave not just informed, but moved.
Having spent years on the other side of the stage - evaluating speakers, deciding who belongs in front of a room, and understanding the make-or-break nature of getting it right - Lisa brings that perspective to every engagement, and she doesn't take the responsibility lightly.
Learn more about Lisa's background and credentials here. If you're planning an event and wondering whether one of these conversations might be the right fit, she'd love to hear from you.
Talks
An interactive keynote on authentic leadership
Most leadership advice asks you to model someone else. This talk starts somewhere different - with the idea that you already have what you need to lead well, if you're willing to trust it. Using an interactive O.W.N. framework, Lisa guides audiences through a personal exploration of their own leadership identity, the kind that holds up under pressure and through change. Audiences leave with language for instincts they've always had, and a renewed confidence in their own way of leading.
Great for: M&E and hospitality industry conferences, leadership and talent development events, women's leadership events, association meetings.
Lead Your OWN Way™
The Uninvited Teacher™: How Loss Transforms the Way You Lead and Live
A gritty, honest conversation about what loss actually does to you - and what it quietly builds
Loss doesn't ask permission. It arrives in the form of a death, a diagnosis, a job that disappears, a relationship that ends - and it changes things. This talk doesn't offer a tidy framework for getting over it. It offers something more honest: a real conversation about what loss costs, what it teaches, and why the people who have walked through something hard often become the most grounded leaders in the room. As a Certified Grief Educator through David Kessler Inc., Lisa brings both personal experience and professional depth to a topic most events don't make room for, and that audiences are quietly desperate to talk about.
Great for: leadership and professional development events, women's conferences, any audience navigating change, transition, or uncertainty.
Leading in the Age of AI
A strategic leadership conversation for organizations navigating change
AI isn't replacing leadership, it's raising the stakes for it. When technology is moving faster than strategy, the organizations that thrive are the ones with leaders who can hold their teams steady, make decisions in ambiguity, and keep the human element at the center. This talk meets audiences somewhere between curious and overwhelmed, and gives them a clearer, more grounded way to think about what leading well in this moment actually requires.
Great for: M&E/travel industry events, business and association conferences, HR and organizational leadership audiences.
Customized Presentations
Content built around your audience, your theme, and your moment
Sometimes the most powerful session is the one that was designed specifically for the room. Lisa works closely with event organizers to develop content that speaks directly to your audience's industry, challenges, and goals - drawing from her experience in strategic consulting, executive coaching, and leadership development to build something that feels less like a keynote and more like a conversation your people have been waiting to have.
To start a conversation about what might work best for your event, reach out here.