What Lisa Has to Say About Leadership and Life Coaching
Leadership is truly a skill that one can hone and one that develops over time and with good, solid practice. Over the years Lisa has taught thousands of people during workshops, presentations and individual coaching. Her message is always one of empowerment, understanding (and overcoming) fears, embracing one’s vulnerability and harnessing these insights for good.
For most people developing a leadership style takes time and comes through experience, self-reflection and always with a clear understanding of one’s goals. Lisa works closely with clients as they develop their leadership skills. Clients emerge from coaching sessions with a strong sense of their leadership plan and what areas are opportunities for growth. In addition to these focused coaching experiences, Lisa offers larger group workshops designed to help teams or groups of people to develop their leadership skills.
One thrilling realization Lisa’s clients often have is that personal development is dynamic and with focus, practice, and empathetic guidance one can truly grow as a leader and as a person. Lisa takes great pleasure in guiding clients to these epiphanies and delights in seeing her clients find success in ways they originally did not think possible.
The Big Mac Decision
Recently, one of my clients was working on setting small, achievable goals for himself during this pandemic. He was focused on health and wellness, as well as some career goals. We were discussing making reasonable guidelines for healthy eating and exercise when we...
The Worst Chicago Summer Ever?
I’ve lived my whole life, minus 4 years of college, in the Chicagoland area. I love my city with its beautiful lakefront, fantastically diverse population, and wonderful food culture. Summer in Chicago is like no other time or place in the world. I’m not exaggerating....
Dear Class of 2020
Dear Class of 2020, My daughter is among your ranks as a college graduate from the Pennsylvania State University. Hopes were high when she started college and our family is keeping the faith that things will be good again soon. In the meantime, it seems that we’ve...
Consciousness and Racism: Confronting Our Biases
One of the more stressful and yet life changing courses I took during my doctoral training was an unconscious bias course around racism and diversity. The intent of the course was to help budding psychologists to get conscious around the biases they may have acquired...