Today’s pressures are wearing down our capacity for clarity, steadiness, and agency.

This is not a failure of leadership or competence.

It’s what prolonged instability does to human capacity.

I work with leaders and teams to restore and sustain
perspective, presence, and power
during extreme change, complexity, and uncertainty.

Ways to Work Together

Staying Power (Workshop)

A facilitated experience that helps leaders and teams restore clarity, steadiness, and agency—and sustain themselves amid ongoing challenges and setbacks.

Savor the World (Keynote)

A counterintuitive case for why the pressure to address challenges larger than any of us distorts perspective and response—and how restoring balance through savoring sustains human capacity.

Advisory Partnership

Advisory relationships focused on communications around high-stakes issues, in addition to ongoing guidance for leaders and teams on sustaining clarity, steadiness, and agency amid ongoing challenges.

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Lisa Bennett
Author | Speaker | Advisor

  • Author of Savor the World (2026)

  • Co-author of Ecoliterate with EQ pioneer Daniel Goleman

  • Editor of Women Amplified

  • Contributor to The Compassionate Instinct and many other books.

  • Award-winning journalist

  • Former Harvard University fellow

  • Former Ashoka Changemakers Thought Leader

Testimonials Scroll

  • "Powerful and persuasive."

    SIR KEN ROBINSON, Creativity expert and #1-watched speaker on TED. (On Ecoliterate)

  • "Lisa is a gifted speaker and writer."

    ELIZABETH BIRCH, Former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign

  • "Lisa is a great collaborator."

    DANIEL GOLEMAN, NYT bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence

  • Lisa has an incredible talent for guiding conversations in a positive, forward-looking direction while ensuring everyone feels heard.

    ANACRON ALLEN, People and Culture, California Academy of Sciences

  • “Lisa is able to create completely new ways to engage audiences such that they can listen, hear and then internalize.”

    LISA RENSTROM, Cofounder of Values Advisor. Former Confluence Philanthropy board chair and Sierra Club president.

  • “Highly recommended!”

    JULIE SWEETLAND, Senior Advisor, the MacArthur Award-winning FrameWorks Institute

  • “Facilitation is an art and science and Lisa has both elements in abundance.”

    CHRIS SPENCE, Former Executive Vice President of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

  • “Lisa understands that working with challenging topics requires meeting people where they are and helping them move forward in small, genuine steps.”

    ANDREW LEIDER, Managing Director, Potrero Group

  • She is a talent - and a delight to work with.

    KAREN BRESLAU, Bloomberg News California Bureau Chief

  • "Lisa combines a sharp, analytical mind with passionate commitment."

    JEREMY SMITH, Editor, Greater Good Magazine at UC Berkeley

  • "Lisa is an excellent public speaker. And she is a pleasure to work with."

    KIM MILLS, Sr. Director, Strategic Communications & Public Affairs, American Psychological Association

  • "Lisa's thoughtful perspectives about climate change and future generations is cutting-edge."

    CAROLIE SLY, Executive Director at Refugee Education and Learning International

Partial List of Clients

The American Psychological Association, Brown University, California Academy of Sciences, Chambers for Clean Energy, Cornell University, Conferences for Women, Earth Knowledge, FrameWorks Institute, Human Rights Campaign, Institute at the Golden Gate, Packard Foundation, Protect Our Winters, San Francisco Zen Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Teleos Institute, Woodwell Climate Research Center, and more.

Lisa Bennett’s work has been featured in

Savor the World is on Substack.
Check it out here.

Lisa Bennett’s work is based on hundreds of interviews with values-driven leaders, neuroscientists and psychologists, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, educators, and everyday good people doing hard things in tough times.