Forget saving the world. We need to savor it—right amid today’s many crises and uncertainties.
Because we save what we savor.
Reignite Your Capacity
There is a growing gap between the challenges organizations face right now and the capacities of the people charged with meeting them.
Clarity suffers. Depletion rises. Belief in impact slips.
Savoring unlocks staying power. It lays the foundation for strengthening the perspective, presence, and power needed to meet great, ongoing challenges.
Save → Strain → Recover → Savor → Save.
This is the framework behind everything Lisa does.
Staying Power
For teams doing demanding work under sustained pressure. A workshop series that restores the capacity that chronic strain erodes: clearer thinking, steadier decisions, sustained engagement without compounding exhaustion. Learn more.
Savor the World
For conferences and organizational gatherings. This talk offers a refreshing reframe of the relationship between striving and savoring — and gives audiences something they will want to put into practice immediately. Learn more.
Advisory Relationships
For purpose-led organizations seeking an ongoing thought partner in communications strategy, facilitation, and capacity building. Start a conversation.
Lisa Bennett is an author, speaker, and advisor who helps purpose-led people and organizations strengthen the capacity to do important work in demanding times. She is the forthcoming author of Savor the World and co-author of Ecoliterate with emotional intelligence pioneer Daniel Goleman.
Her work is based on decades of experience and hundreds of interviews with CEOs, nonprofit leaders, university presidents, psychologists, neuroscientists, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and more. Learn more.
Clients include
The American Psychological Association
Brown University
California Academy of Sciences
Cornell, University
Earth Knowledge
FrameWorks Institute
Human Rights Campaign
Southern Poverty Law Center
Woodwell Climate Research Center
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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 great collaborator."
DANIEL GOLEMAN, NYT bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence
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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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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 a gifted speaker and writer."
ELIZABETH BIRCH, Former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign
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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
