Life today asks more of us than our old ways of restoring capacity can give.
It’s time for a new playbook.
Lisa Bennett offers a research-backed framework for strengthening clarity, vitality, and impact.
Speaking | Facilitation | Coaching
Communications Advice
Helping good people
do hard things in tough times.
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Savor the World Keynote
Many of us are more than a little concerned about the state of our world.
It’s an exhausting way to live and work. It also tends to lead to negative mindsets and diminished capacity to make an impact.
So, what if we flipped the script and thought less about our collective need to “save the world” or some small part of it—and focused more on savoring it?
It turns out the research is clear: Extending the positive emotional states through leading with wonder and savoring reduces stress and distress. It also makes us better able to navigate uncertainty.
This talk—packed with inspiring stories and insights—introduces a research-based framework designed to leave people feeling reconnected to joy and their own sense of agency and capacity to make a difference.
Staying Power™ Workshops
Does your team have the staying power to keep showing up, aligned to mission, and capable of rising to today’s challenges?
In many organizations, the answer is no. Unprecedented change, uncertainty, and complexity are accelerating burnout, quiet quitting, and other forms of disengagement.
And all of that is negatively affecting people, productivity, performance, profits, and purpose.
The Staying Power™ workshop series—based on more than 100+ expert and practitioner interviews and decades of research—is designed to meet these challenges.
It offers targeted skill-building and rich, experiential opportunities to develop new ways of perceiving challenges, wisely relating to the emotions they present, and responding strategically.
Participants develop greater clarity, alignment with purpose, and impact.
Leadership Coaching
What countless leaders need today is not so much ordinary leadership skills. Those are for ordinary times.
In these extraordinary, fast-moving, uncertain times, they need space.
To get clear. Navigate quiet fears. And persevere—with a steadiness of purpose that is sustainable and can inspire others.
This customized coaching program is designed to do that in conversation with a thinking partner who has had the privilege of learning from some of the greatest leaders, known and unknown, in business, nonprofits, education, psychology, spirituality, and other fields.
Communications Advisory Relationships
In challenging times, communication often shapes whether people feel hopeful or overwhelmed.
Yet many leaders and teams are navigating high-stakes messages without the clarity, framing, or support needed to communicate more effectively.
I offer a steady partner in this work.
Drawing on decades of experience supporting values-driven leaders and teams, this offering is designed to help clarify what needs to be said and how to communicate in ways that foster trust, alignment, and shared purpose.
The work may include message development, narrative framing, thought-leadership support, and guidance on navigating complex conversations.
LISA BENNETT
Speaker | Author | Coach
Lisa Bennett helps people and organizations strengthen the inner capacity they need to meet the demands of these times with greater clarity, vitality, and impact.
Author of the forthcoming Savor the World
Co-author of Ecoliterate with EQ pioneer Daniel Goleman
Advisor for purpose-led organizations
Speaker and facilitator
Award-winning journalist
Former Harvard University fellow
Former Ashoka Changemakers Thought Leader
This 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.
Testimonials Scroll
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"Powerful and persuasive."
SIR KEN ROBINSON, Creativity expert and #1-watched speaker on TED. (On Ecoliterate)
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"Lisa is a gifted speaker and writer."
ELIZABETH BIRCH, Former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign
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"Lisa is a great collaborator."
DANIEL GOLEMAN, NYT bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence
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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
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“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.
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“Highly recommended!”
JULIE SWEETLAND, Senior Advisor, the MacArthur Award-winning FrameWorks Institute
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“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
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“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
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She is a talent - and a delight to work with.
KAREN BRESLAU, Bloomberg News California Bureau Chief
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"Lisa combines a sharp, analytical mind with passionate commitment."
JEREMY SMITH, Editor, Greater Good Magazine at UC Berkeley
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"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
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"Lisa's thoughtful perspectives about climate change and future generations is cutting-edge."
CAROLIE SLY, Executive Director at Refugee Education and Learning International
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.
