Savor the World

I help purpose-driven people restore and sustain capacity to keep advancing important work in demanding times.

Staying Power

Staying Power addresses the capacity breakdowns that today’s sustained pressure creates: declining decision quality, chronic depletion, and eroding agency. It helps people and organizations restore enough capacity to think more clearly, stay more grounded, and be more aligned around impact.

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Savor the World

A program that flips the script on “saving the world.” Savor the World shows how restoring the capacity to savor—attention, appreciation, meaning—helps people sustain impact without losing energy, clarity, or purpose.

Starting Power

Disengagement is often misunderstood as a lack of care. More often, it is about not believing that one’s capacity meets the demands of the times—or a lack of clarity about purpose and alignment. Starting Power addresses these challenges, helping unlock capacity so everyone can contribute.

Advisory Partnerships

I also engage in select ongoing advisory partnerships with purpose-led organizations, providing communications strategy and ongoing capacity-building for leaders and teams working to advance critical missions under challenging conditions.

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Lisa Bennett
Author | Speaker | Advisor

  • Author of Savor the World (forthcoming)

  • 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

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.

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

Work featured in

Savor the World is on Substack.
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Lisa Bennett’s work is based on decades of experience and hundreds of interviews with values-driven leaders, neuroscientists and psychologists, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, educators, and more.