Meet Lisa.
“I support and empower people who want to live more vibrant and impactful lives… I can accompany people on their journeys, because I’m on this journey too.”
My life has been a journey across varied and rugged terrain. It’s been a whole life, shaped by many personal and professional highs and lows, endings and beginnings, and moments of stuck and flow. Through the years, I’ve come to understand that this ongoing rhythm of building up and tearing down is the nature of life itself. It’s how life brings us to wholeness. By consciously entering whatever life is serving up—be it a new promotion or the loss of a job, a wedding or the end of an important relationship—we have the potential to live a more vibrant and impactful life.
That doesn’t mean the journey is easy. Depending upon where we are in the process, we can be giddy with excitement or paralyzed by fear. The company of others who have been down similar paths can make all the difference. That’s why I am a coach.
In terms of education and professional credentials, I studied Human Biology as an undergrad at Stanford, business strategy and organizational behavior at Tuck School of Business, spiritual formation at the University of the South School of Theology, Behavior Science Design with BJ Fogg, systems change through the Presencing Institute, and somatic coaching with Strozzi Institute and the International Coaching Federation. I’ve served as a thought-leadership consultant for CEOs, a published author of several business books (and one travel guide!), an adjunct professor of leadership and innovation, an investment banker, and a board member of several non-profits. I’ve worked for companies and founded them. My life credentials include being a mom, wife, daughter, sister, and friend and I’ve found my way through an empty nest, the early death of a parent, physical assault, divorce, PTSD, and rebuilding my life entirely and unexpectedly at midlife.
I am deeply honored, excited, and grateful to be able to draw upon these experiences to accompany people like you on your journeys to living whole, fulfilled, and successful lives and making your positive impact on the world.
Let me tell you a little more about myself.
Let me tell you a bit about Transformation Design Studio.
I was raised by two spiritual leaders and social activists who were deeply committed to positively transforming individuals and society. So it’s no surprise that I also share a commitment to personal growth and positive social change.
I learned much from my parents and their colleagues about the need for creative leadership, about sensing into possibilities that didn’t yet exist, about applying a systems lens to challenges and solutions, and about how entrenched habits and perspectives prohibit any meaningful change. I also learned much from them about trauma, burn-out, and the profound link between innovators’ inner state and their outer results.
Later when I went on to develop new products, services, markets, and policies in the for profit and no-profit sectors, and after teaching innovation and creative problem solving in companies and university settings, I saw the same patterns repeated. I became convinced that to address the challenges we currently face, we needed to update both how we innovate and the inner state from which we imagine possibilities.
I founded Transformation Design Studio as a dedicated space to further explore the connection between inner transformation and outer impact. We offer coaching for leaders— which I define as anyone who wants to positively impact the world around them regardless of their official title in organizations—as well as workshops and adventures for individuals and teams to build their inner capacity to meet today’s challenges. We grow leaders who can self-regulate, tap into deeper sources of wisdom, engage in deep dialogue, collaborate across differences, and take sustainable and effective action for regeneration of self and society. I am committed to this work, because I want to live in a world that is being transformed by people who themselves are being transformed. Join me?
