For more than two decades Lisa has helped individuals, teams and organisations grow to be their best.
Lisa's extensive experience includes having held senior positions in a number of European and Australian executive education institutions. Most notably, Melbourne Business School, Nyenrode Business University and as General Manager, Academy of Management at Groningen - a company related to the University of Groningen. In these roles Lisa designed and delivered leadership development and strategic management programs for Senior Managers.
Throughout her career she has specialised in helping organisations and leaders create real organisational change and innovation, demonstrate deep leadership and become successful in dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity. Lisa brings to her work the strength of two lines of expertise: firstly, a thorough understanding of the different business disciplines and how they interrelate and secondly a deep knowledge and understanding of how to create learning impact and lasting change in organisations.
“Lisa was my facilitator for a senior management transition program. She is the best facilitator I ever had. She is very knowledgeable, designs and leads senior management programs that are truly custom made and has had an enormous impact on me and my business.”
Betty Kesteloo
Senior Publisher, Springer Nature
In all her work, Lisa demonstrates the drive and energy to set things in motion, a clear insight into the dynamics between people and the capacity to lead and guide people through these intense development processes. Her engagement with clients is characterised as thought provoking and inspiring.
Lisa has worked with a broad range of organisations from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In collaboration with these clients she creates deep learning experiences for individual and organisational impact.
“Lisa has a unique gift for listening and guiding groups to create their own development path. She is sweet and strong, soft and firm all at the same time. This combination makes her unique in what she does.”
Danielle Rainha Ribeiro
HR Executive Director SUPERGASBRAS
Organisations that Lisa has worked with include Reserve Bank New Zealand, SHV, ADIA, South Australia Health, New Zealand Post, Statistics New Zealand, News Corp Australia, Bosch, Reed Business Information, ING Bank, Shell, Air France/KLM, NUON Vattenfall, Gazprom, Ahold, Gazprom, The Australian Communications and Media Authority, St John New Zealand.
Until recently Lisa taught Personal Authentic Leadership in the Executive MBA program at Nyenrode Business University in The Netherlands. Other subjects she has been asked to speak on include: Leading Change, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leading in Complexity, Systems Thinking, Purpose and Value driven leadership.
Lisa holds an MSc in Business Administration (Rijksuniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1995) and has undertaken an impressive range of professional development programs in areas of personal development, communication and leadership. Lisa has also participated in the renowned Professional Development Program of the IOD in Leuven (BEL), which greatly enhanced her abilities as an OD consultant. Lisa is accredited in the ExperienceInnovation and ExperienceChange simulations and the Organisation Workshop by Power + Systems.
Lisa loves watching sports and traveling the world with her husband and children. They often combine the two and travel to great sports events.