SAVOR THE WORLD
Renewal for people working to create a better world and the families, communities, and organizations that rely on them.
Hi, I’m Lisa Bennett — author, facilitator, and award-winning journalist. I’ve spent decades exploring how we rise to big challenges without being flattened by them. For people who care about the state of the world today, that question has never felt more relevant.
FEATURED IN
The BBC, NPR, Harper’s, Vox, Big Think, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
A destabilized world is destabilizing us.
Relentless crises, uncertainty, and change create three problems:
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Clarity takes a hit
Overwhelm leads to reactivity and impaired decision-making.
02
Presence suffers
Anger, grief, and despair erode the capacity to show up fully.
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Agency erodes
Hope seems naïve. Pessimism dampens problem-solving. And we may doubt our capacity to make a difference.
For decades, many of us have been driven by a story that encourages us to “save the world,” or at least a small part of it.
But given the weight of today’s challenges, what once mobilized can now demoralize.
We need a new narrative—one that is big enough to sustain us now.
Savoring the world is one such story.
It is also a mindset grounded in a growing body of research that shows savoring skills help strengthen and sustain capacity in times of adversity.
Specifically, it strengthens and sustains greater clarity, grounding, and agency.
Ultimately, savoring the world also invites us to develop a more reciprocal relationship with the world, one in which we find a sense of belonging and are sustained in our efforts on behalf of the people, creatures, places, and principles we care about.
We save what we savor.
SPEAKING & WORKSHOPS
Bring Savor the World to your audience.
From a keynote that opens a new conversation to a full day of renewal.
For conference organizers, organizations, foundations, networks, universities, and institutions.
Savor the World: The Keynote
An inspiring, story-packed talk about how shared narrative about the state of the world can undermine our clarity, grounding, and self-agency, and how a new narrative, rooted in a growing body of research into the science of savoring, sustains and strengthens our capacity to make a difference.
Staying Power Workshops
Purpose-driven work has never felt more important. Or harder to sustain.
These facilitated workshops help people understand how pressure affects the way they work and strengthen the clarity, grounding, and agency they need to keep advancing important missions.
A Day of Renewal
In times like these, pressure on purpose-driven leaders and teams can show up as depletion, reactivity, or corrosive doubt that our work isn’t making enough of a difference.
Day of Renewal helps purpose-driven leaders and teams restore the clarity, grounding, and agency they need to keep doing meaningful work by reconnecting people, purpose, and possibility.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
“Lisa is able to create completely new ways to engage audiences such that they can listen, hear and then internalize.”
LISA RENSTROM
President & Co-Founder, Values Advisor
“Lisa is the calm in every cultural storm.”
ELIZABETH BIRCH
Former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign
“Lisa has an incredible talent for guiding conversations in a positive, forward-looking direction while ensuring everyone feels heard.”
ANACRON ALLEN
People & Culture, California Academy of Sciences
SELECTED CLIENTS & PARTNERS
The American Psychological Association
Brown University
California Academy of Sciences
Conferences for Women
Cornell University
Earth Knowledge
The FrameWorks Institute
Human Rights Campaign
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Southern Poverty Law Center
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Decades spent on one question: how do we rise to times like these without them flattening us?
Lisa Bennett is a speaker, facilitator, advisor, and award-winning journalist. She is the author of the forthcoming Savor the World and co-author of Ecoliterate with emotional intelligence pioneer Daniel Goleman.
A former fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she has written for The New York Times, Forbes, Big Think, and Vox, and has held leadership roles in education, communications, and organizational strategy.
MEET LISA
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Books co-authored, edited, or contributed to.
250 +
Leaders & experts interviewed
Collaborated with numerous CEOs, university presidents, and executive directors.
Interviewed people across more than a dozen fields, including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and leaders of Fortune 500 companies.
Reported on exceptional leaders, from the Dalai Lama to Sully Sullenberger.
Selected speaking & media · National Press Club · California Academy of Sciences · Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · Packard Foundation · BBC · NPR · C‑SPAN
An introduction to this work
What depletes purpose-driven people, what restores them, and the framework that charts the journey. A short read, straight to your inbox.
