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Lisa Even

Revitalize organizational culture with Lisa Even, corporate leadership expert and bestselling author. Lisa equips leaders to create thriving teams through her Ripple Effect methodology and S.E.A. Framework, focusing on emotional intelligence and intentional leadership. Former fortune 500 leader and host of the Have Good Ripple Effect podcast.

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Lisa Even, Speaker | Leadership Coach & Author
Lisa Even

Lisa Even

Iowa City, United States

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Lisa Even's biography

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  • Corporate leadership expert specializing in organizational culture
  • Best-selling author of Joy Is My Job and What's Your Ripple Effect?
  • Creator of the S.E.A. Framework for intentional leadership
Lisa Even is a corporate leadership expert who transforms organizational culture through her proven ripple effect methodology, helping leaders intentionally build environments where teams thrive and results follow. Formerly a healthcare operational leader at a Fortune 500 company managing a multimillion-dollar budget, Lisa now shares her expertise as a nationally recognized keynote speaker, bestselling author of Joy Is My Job, and host of the Have Good Ripple Effect podcast. Her signature S.E.A. Framework (Show up, Engage, Adapt) has guided organizations worldwide through periods of change and growth. Lisa's approach centers on the powerful insight that culture isn't built in meetings but in everyday moments through attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. She equips leaders to move beyond reactive management to intentional leadership, demonstrating how small actions create significant organizational impact. By focusing on emotional intelligence and purposeful presence, Lisa helps teams overcome disengagement, siloed thinking, and resistance to change that plague so many workplaces. Audiences leave Lisa's presentations with practical strategies to assess and transform team culture, tools to bridge personality and communication differences, and techniques to foster environments where innovation flourishes. Her blend of research-backed insights, real-world experience, and actionable frameworks make conquering complex leadership challenges possible. Book Lisa to transform your leadership approach from simply managing metrics to creating a lasting ripple effect that elevates performance, engagement, and results.

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Good Ripple Effect: Building A Positive Culture
Lisa Even explores how cultural drift, low morale, and everyday negativity quietly undermine performance, especially in fast-moving, resource-strained workplaces. She reveals how attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs shape far more than daily metrics, and how intentional leadership creates a ripple effect that strengthens trust and collaboration. With her trademark energy and clarity, Lisa equips attendees to recognise cultural blockers, reset team dynamics, and build environments where engagement becomes a natural driver of results.
Building Self-Aware Leaders And Teams
Lisa Even examines how low self-awareness in leaders fuels tension, disengagement, and miscommunication, eroding even the strongest of teams. She shows how energy, expression, tone, and intention influence every interaction, and how emotional intelligence becomes a practical tool rather than an abstract ideal. Blending research with relatable storytelling, Lisa helps participants understand how they truly show up, identify unhelpful patterns, and adopt a responsible presence that transforms the way people connect, collaborate, and respond.
Living In The Lab: Building Engagement-Driven Teams
Lisa Even tackles the growing challenge of complacency and inconsistent performance, showing how unintentional leadership behaviours can suppress curiosity, creativity, and initiative. She encourages teams to adopt a laboratory mindset where experimentation, contribution, and safe risk-taking become everyday norms. With vivid examples and an encouraging, practical tone, Lisa helps participants understand what sparks motivation and equips them to cultivate a culture where ideas flow, ownership increases, and engagement becomes the foundation of performance.
Joy Is My Job: Building Accountability Of Joy
Lisa Even addresses the misconception that enjoyment at work is optional, highlighting how busy environments, rising burnout, and shifting pressures often drain energy and connection. She shows how joy acts as a commercial advantage rather than a perk, and how simple, consistent habits can transform the workplace experience. Drawing on her signature concepts and warm humor, Lisa demonstrates how both leaders and team members can take responsibility for fostering joy, strengthening morale, creativity, and long-term retention.
Leading Through Change Without Burnout
Lisa Even provides leaders with a human-centered approach to navigate continuous change while maintaining team cohesion. By integrating behavioral science with her extensive Fortune 500 leadership experience, she offers practical tools to minimize resistance, sustain energy, and ensure team alignment during periods of rapid change and uncertainty. Attendees will learn effective strategies for leading change that genuinely resonate with their teams, fostering engagement and collaboration in challenging environments.

Why we recommend booking Lisa

Lisa Even transforms organizational cultures through her proven Ripple Effect methodology, equipping leaders with practical strategies to overcome workplace challenges while fostering environments where innovation and engagement flourish. Book Lisa to convert your leadership approach from simply managing metrics to creating a lasting impact that elevates team performance and delivers measurable results.

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Testimonials

We’ve had the pleasure of hosting Lisa Even twice now. Not only is her content stellar, Lisa is fantastic to work with. She is thoughtful, thorough, and provides relatable tools and actionable strategies that attendees can implement immediately. The quality of her work is equal across multiple presentation formats. Whether live-streaming a 1:1 discussion for a webinar, presenting in-person where attendees can also stream and participate online, or just working with an in-person audience, she is an impactful presenter.

Allison Violette

Sr. Resource Coordinator, ESPN

Working with Lisa was a positive experience from start to finish. She is friendly, professional, and easy to work with. She was a wonderful addition to our annual fundraising event with over 1,000 guests. Her message, delivery, and call to consider our own Ripple Effects and to create more Joy in our lives will resonate with our audience for years to come.

Colleen Dougherty

Special Events Manager, Healthy Birth Day

Change and uncertainty are the new norm and leaders are feeling overwhelmed with execution. Lisa brought strategies to leverage culture as a competitive advantage and break down silos. She was actionable, but more importantly relatable! After hearing Lisa, our team is recharged!

Corey Morrison

Chief Strategy Officer, On With Life

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