Author, Coach, Entrepreneur, and Leadership Keynote Speaker
As a healthcare operational leader overseeing a multimillion-dollar budget, Lisa Even learned firsthand that great leaders don’t wait for culture to “happen.” They build it—intentionally.
Now, as a keynote speaker, she’s on a mission to help leaders happen to their teams—not the other way around.
Blending actionable strategies, fresh perspective, and research-backed insights, Lisa helps world-class leaders connect deeper, perform better, and unlock next-level productivity and impact.
With 15 years learning, refining, and sharing the "ripple effect" of leadership, she brings invaluable insights and strategies on topics such as:
Lisa's
Keynotes
Team / Workplace Culture
Have Good Ripple Effect:
Building Positive Team Culture
Great leaders don’t wait for good culture to “happen”—they build it.
Today’s professional landscape is more demanding than ever, with challenges like compressed resources, rapid change, and siloed teams. Cultural dysfunctions such as complaining, negativity, and passive-aggressive behavior often go unaddressed, quietly eroding morale, stalling growth, and driving turnover. While monitoring metrics and holding people accountable might seem sufficient, truly impactful leadership requires more.
According to SHRM, nearly one in five employees has left a job in the past five years due to negative workplace culture, highlighting its critical impact on retention. In this keynote, Lisa equips leaders with three strategies to analyze, navigate, and build a collaborative and adaptive culture—creating a lasting Good Ripple Effect that drives results.
Perfect for Leaders and Teams:
Key Takeaways:
Leadership / Emotional Intelligence
Presence is
a Present:
Presence is a Present:
Building Self-Aware Leaders and Teams
Leaders lacking self-awareness often show up as busy, stressed, authoritarian, or overwhelmed. They struggle to separate their emotions from their actions, leading to team disengagement, frustration, and interpersonal friction.
By building self-awareness, leaders can better focus on their teams and bridge differences in personalities, values, and communication styles among team members, fostering more cohesive and collaborative environments. According to the Harvard Business Review, “Leaders with high emotional intelligence contribute to a 20% improvement in team performance.”
In this keynote, Lisa shares actionable strategies for building self-awareness and the four factors that predict positive presence: energy, expression, tone, and intention—all of which are essential for positively influencing team dynamics.
Perfect for Leaders and Teams:
Key Takeaways:
Engagement
Living in
the Lab:
Living in the Lab:
Building Engagement-Driven Teams
Many organizations face rising complacency, disengagement, and inconsistent performance. Meanwhile, successful, innovative organizations thrive because their employees are motivated and eager to contribute to shared goals.
Too often, leaders unintentionally stifle creativity and innovation—either by placing team members in high-pressure problem-solving situations without adequate support or by repeatedly solving the team’s problems themselves. This fosters a fear of mistakes, leaving ideas untapped and teams underperforming.
In this keynote, Lisa helps leaders explore how their leadership style impacts team dynamics, ways to “live in the lab” and experiment with engagement activities, and equips them with actionable strategies to build a motivation-centered culture where employees feel empowered to contribute proactively.
Perfect for Leaders and Teams:
Key Takeaways:
Team / Workplace Culture
Joy Is
My Job:
Joy Is My Job:
Building Accountability of Joy in the Workplace
Too often, enjoyment and engagement are treated as “nice to have” instead of essential components of a productive workplace. Deadlines, projects, and crises take over, leaving team members feeling disconnected and drained, relying on sporadic gestures to feel engaged. And let’s face it—the word burnout gets tossed around like candy.
Additionally, it’s easy for team members to assume workplace joy is solely the leader’s responsibility, while leaders face rising disengagement without knowing how to fix it. Research shows that joyful employees are 31% more productive and three times as creative, leading to higher morale, retention, and innovation within teams. Joy isn’t just a feel-good concept—it’s a smart business strategy.
In this keynote, Lisa guides audiences through practical steps to create a culture of enjoyment and engagement. She introduces concepts such as “Crappy to Happy” to improve unglamorous work activities and demonstrates how team members can take accountability for their own enjoyment at work.
Perfect for Leaders and Teams:
Key Takeaways:
Amplify the Ripple Effect.
Free Audience Resources
Every keynote Lisa delivers includes practical resources that reinforce the learning and help audiences apply what they’ve learned in their everyday life.
Enhance
the Experience.
KEYNOTE ADD-ONS
Breakout Session
Equip your team to better apply what they’ve learned by pairing your keynote with a hands-on breakout session.
Post-Event Webinar Series
Reinforce the ripple effect with a webinar series customized to your specific needs.
Video Course
Empower your leaders to create lasting leadership impact and foster meaningful change within their team with this practical course.
Hilariously Relatable:
They laugh while they learn with stories that hit home.
Lisa engages them every step of the way.
Lisa delivers strategies that stick and create lasting change.
Actionable Insights:
They walk away with real (proven) tools for real (proven) results.
Customized Content:
Each presentation is tailored to them and their industry.
Lisa is an impactful presenter.
“Whether live-streaming a 1:1 discussion for a webinar, presenting in-person where attendees can also stream and participate online, or just working with an in-person audience, Lisa is an impactful presenter. Her energy and enthusiasm are contagious, and she puts on a joyously engaging and informative session while providing tools and strategies our attendees can implement immediately into their personal and professional lives.”
Lisa Even's keynote was truly transformative.
“Lisa Even’s keynote was truly transformative and resonated deeply with me because, like she said, joy doesn’t just happen by accident; it’s something we need to pursue on purpose. That simple, yet powerful, perspective shift made me think deeply about the choices I’ve been making—or not making—to invite more joy into my life. I walked away feeling empowered to take ownership of my happiness and to start being intentional about finding joy every day.“
Great Presenter and Motivational Speaker!
Lisa was easy to work with, and her fun and informative style was refreshing! We had many positive comments and useful insights to take back to our work. She gave us real workable strategies to incorporate with staff and students.”
and passion for inspiring and building productive teams is simply impressive. Shis is rare and makes everyone around her want to excel and bring good ripple effect. One of our team members, came up to me afterwards and said, ‘I need to do better.’
If you want a big impact with your team, book Lisa!”
"After hearing Lisa, our team isrecharged!
Change and uncertainty are the new norm and leaders are feeling overwhelmed with execution. Lisa brought strategies to leverage culture as a competitive advantage and break down silos. She was actionable, but more importantly relatable! After hearing Lisa, our team is recharged!”
“Lisa is an energetic and actionable speaker!
Her thoughts regarding leadership resonate with executive audiences. She keeps the focus on being outcomes driven, while being lively and thought-provoking. Her examples and nuggets of information that are easy to take with you and incorporate into work or life.”
“Book Lisa for your conference!
If you are in an industry that deals with toxic culture, low engagement and burnout, or has accountability gaps, book Lisa for your conference! She helps leaders and teams understand their impact and create stronger, more resilient teams. She has good ripple effect!”
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