Bio
Lisa is a certified leadership coach who is also a skilled trainer, speaker and consultant.
Lisa's first career was as a high school French teacher. This means that Lisa still has a great passion for education, and that she is afraid of nothing in both of Canada's official languages.
Lisa's second career, after completing her MBA, was in Organizational Development. Lisa worked on projects such as employee engagement, leadership competencies, 360 leadership assessments, leadership development, change management for different programs, and other topics that she found to be quite interesting. As a trainer, Lisa has presented to diverse corporate audiences on effective interpersonal communication, how to lead change, introduction to coaching skills, leading high performance teams and many other different leadership skills and traits.
Lisa's third career, which is a very apt confluence of all that has come before, is as the owner of LVS Consulting. Lisa specializes in creating positive organizations through her speaking, training, coaching and consulting, working with individuals, teams, managers and leaders. She is creating an organizational feedback diagnostic, based on insights from her doctorate research.
Lisa was on the founding board of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association where she served in the role of Vice Chair. She has served as the VP (2010-2012) and the President (2012-2014, 2015-2017) of the MAPP Alumni Association. She has also volunteered for many years with IPPA, and is Past President of the Work and Organizations Division. Lisa has run the MAPP NewsBrief for approximately 14 years.