Lisa is an accredited Executive Coach and Trainer who develops Resilient Leaders at all levels in organisations.

 

Having first qualified as a general nurse and subsequently as a midwife, Lisa has worked in a diverse range of clinical settings including Beaumont Hospital Dublin, street clinics in Calcutta, King Edward VII Hospital and the Royal Marsden Clinic in London, and GP practices in Dublin. A move to the administrative side of healthcare included roles in the Blackrock Clinic, Lowell House, and the Irish Practice Nurses Association where she managed a successful application for charitable tax exemption, drafted governance policies for Board to approve, mentored rotating Board Members, and coordinated clinical awards and bursaries. In 2016 she qualified as a Business, Executive and Personal Coach, later completing Train the Trainer. Since then she has become a Certified Just Culture Champion and has completed Principles and Practice of Restorative Just Culture with Northumbria University.  She is an accredited Coach of Excellence with the Professional Standards Consortium.  She is also a licensed EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 practitioner.

 

Lisa’s in-depth nursing knowledge of human physiology is interwoven with proven coaching approaches along with emerging evidence from the world of neuroscience. Managers in safety-critical or risk-averse sectors (who want to become Restorative Leaders and build a culture of psychological safety and learning at work) particularly benefit from her unique mix of skills i.e. Coach, Trainer, Certified Just Culture Champion, Nurse, Midwife and founder of two successful businesses. She uses proven frameworks and models in her coaching and training, including Micro-Resilience (proven, research-based tools and rejuvenating behaviours that take seconds to implement and lead to immediate improvement in energy), the Five Levels of Leadership, Just Culture, Conversational Intelligence, and others.

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In one-to-one coaching she facilitates learning and growth in her clients through coaching in its purest form. She coaches the individual in front of her, holding up a ‘mirror’ so that they can safely examine their strengths, values and what blocks their progress. Her coaching approach is person-centred, kind, non-judgemental, supportive, championing while challenging, and anchored by unconditional positive regard for each client (Carl Rogers).

 

She is on a number of private, semi-state, cross-border and international coaching and mentoring panels. She gives talks and workshops on resilience, assertiveness skills, domestic abuse and psychological safety to community and patient groups, business teams, at seminars and networking meetings. She is a member of the BNI Rossmore Chapter and is a Mentor on the Care Team in BNI Ireland. She was a Silver Lining SLAPStrategist and in this role she mentored small businesses around the world. She has contributed to nursing and medical journals, websites and blogs, writing about interventions that enhance health literacy. Her core values are dignity throughout life, non-judgement and compassion.

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Her TED talk on Psychological Safety was the 2nd most viewed TEDx talk in the world in September 2021.  It was elevated to the TED.com platform in March 2022.

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In 2023 she, her business colleagues and friends raised €2,000 for emergency accommodation for those experiencing domestic abuse in Counties Monaghan and Cavan, where there currently is no refuge.  She is a co-founder of Hope Floats, an initiative to empower those experiencing domestic abuse (particularly coercive control) with the information they need to start or move along their journey to safety and autonomy.