Meet Lisa
I am driven by helping humans connect: to themselves, to others, to their passions and professions, to their teams, and to their purpose.
Connection makes us better. It makes life easier and clearer, and it builds resilience within us. Whether it’s a coaching conversation, a small team workshop, or a large development journey, it’s all done with the hope of creating connection by exploring what drives us, what gets in our way, what brings out our best, and why we sometimes make being human together so unnecessarily complicated.
My own professional journey has been anything but linear. My roots are in theater and the arts, where I learned about the power that's created when we align people, stories, motivation, relationships, and the ways we make what’s happening on the inside visible to the outside world. That curiosity eventually led me to learning and leadership development, coaching, facilitation, and organizational consulting. As it turns out, understanding what makes a character tick isn’t all that different from understanding what makes the rest of us tick.
Over the course of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with people across roles, industries, cultures, and corners of the world. From professionals figuring out who they want to become to experienced executives navigating the very human challenges of leadership. I’ve coached individuals, facilitated teams, designed leadership programs, helped people make sense of assessments and feedback, and partnered with organizations to turn big ideas about leadership, culture, communication, and change into things humans can actually understand and use.
My approach brings together behavioral science, leadership development, coaching, assessment, storytelling, experiential learning, and lessons borrowed from the creative world. There’s usually a lot of humor and play involved, too. I believe meaningful development can be thoughtful and rigorous without taking itself too seriously. People learn when they’re curious, when they feel safe enough to experiment, and when something helps them see themselves or another person a little differently.
I’m less interested in teaching people the “right” way to lead, work, or show up than I am in helping them discover a way that is genuinely theirs. Because becoming better at work shouldn’t require becoming less of yourself.
That’s what Human Kind Works is about: creating the conditions for people to understand themselves, connect more meaningfully with others, and become more intentional about how they work, lead, create, and grow.
In other words, helping humans human better.