Lisa Even Speaking Topics

• Have Good Ripple Effect: Building Positive Culture & Results

  Great leaders don’t wait for good culture to “happen”—they build it.

  Today’s professional landscape is more demanding than ever, with challenges like compressed resources, rapid change, and siloed teams. Cultural dysfunctions such as complaining, negativity, and passive-aggressive behavior often go unaddressed, quietly eroding morale, stalling growth, and driving turnover. While monitoring metrics and holding people accountable might seem sufficient, truly impactful leadership requires more.

  According to SHRM, nearly one in five employees has left a job in the past five years due to negative workplace culture, highlighting its critical impact on retention. In this keynote, Lisa equips leaders with three strategies to analyze, navigate, and build a collaborative and adaptive culture—creating a lasting Good Ripple Effect that drives results.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Identify and address cultural dysfunctions that hinder growth and engagement
  • Evaluate team culture by analyzing current attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs
  • Gain practical tools to improve team morale, productivity, and retention

  Perfect for Leaders and Teams:

  • Navigating the challenges of a dynamic workplace
  • Wanting to leverage culture as a competitive advantage
  • Trying to create an environment where teams feel empowered and engaged

• Harnessing the Energy of Change: Leading Without Burnout or Fatigue

  Today’s leaders aren’t just navigating one transformation. They’re leading through continuous change. New priorities. Shifting expectations. Faster timelines. And teams who are trying to keep up without burning out. The result is often change fatigue: less engagement, more resistance, and leaders who feel like they’re pushing and pulling instead of truly leading.

  In this session, Lisa Even reframes change management as a practical, human centered approach that starts with mindset and presence and extends into a clear, repeatable change strategy. Rather than treating change as something to survive, leaders learn how to harness its energy and guide their teams through it with intention.

  Blending behavioral science, real-world leadership experience, and actionable change tools, Lisa equips leaders with ways to prepare themselves and their teams to move through change with ownership, action, and momentum.

  Using concepts from change management methodology, including nudge theory, shared language, and intentional leadership behaviors, this session focuses on how leaders influence mindset, daily decisions, and team response, especially when things are moving quickly and certainty is low.

  This is not a “power through it” message. It is a practical guide for sustaining energy, focus, and trust while change is happening.

  Key Takeaways:

  • A practical framework for preparing themselves mentally and emotionally before leading others through change
  • Tools to recognize and reduce change fatigue for themselves and their teams
  • Shared language leaders can use to help teams reframe uncertainty and stay engaged
  • A simple, repeatable strategy for introducing and reinforcing change with team members

  Perfect for Leaders and Teams:

  • Navigating rapid growth, restructuring, mergers, or shifting strategic priorities and need a sustainable way to keep people aligned and engaged
  • Feeling the weight of change fatigue and want practical tools to maintain momentum without sacrificing morale, trust, or performance
  • Delivering results in fast-moving environments while helping their people adapt, collaborate, and stay focused under pressure

• Joy Is My Job: Building Accountability of Joy in the Workplace

  Too often, enjoyment and engagement are treated as “nice to have” instead of essential components of a productive workplace. Deadlines, projects, and crises take over, leaving team members feeling disconnected and drained, relying on sporadic gestures to feel engaged. And let’s face it—the word burnout gets tossed around like candy.

  Additionally, it’s easy for team members to assume workplace joy is solely the leader’s responsibility, while leaders face rising disengagement without knowing how to fix it. Research shows that joyful employees are 31% more productive and three times as creative, leading to higher morale, retention, and innovation within teams. Joy isn’t just a feel-good concept—it’s a smart business strategy.

  In this keynote, Lisa Even guides audiences through practical steps to create a culture of enjoyment and engagement. She introduces concepts such as “Crappy to Happy” to improve unglamorous work activities and demonstrates how team members can take accountability for their own enjoyment at work.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Design engagement plans and activities that increase satisfaction and reduce turnover
  • Foster an ownership mindset that inspires creativity and accountability
  • Spread a Positive Ripple Effect: Empower teams to own their joy and workplace experience

  Perfect for Leaders and Teams:

  • Looking to boost team morale
  • Fostering team ownership: Joy is a shared responsibility, and leaders empower team members to shape their workplace experiences
  • Introducing Small Habits: Simple, consistent actions build cohesion and accountability better than occasional events

• Living in the Lab: Building Engagement- Driven Teams

  Many organizations face rising complacency, disengagement, and inconsistent performance. Meanwhile, successful, innovative organizations thrive because their employees are motivated and eager to contribute to shared goals.

  Too often, leaders unintentionally stifle creativity and innovation—either by placing team members in high-pressure problem-solving situations without adequate support or by repeatedly solving the team’s problems themselves. This fosters a fear of mistakes, leaving ideas untapped and teams underperforming.

  In this keynote, Lisa Even helps leaders explore how their leadership style impacts team dynamics, ways to “live in the lab” and experiment with engagement activities, and equips them with actionable strategies to build a motivation-centered culture where employees feel empowered to contribute proactively.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Recognize behaviors that suppress creativity and risk-taking
  • Discover motivation-focused methods through real-world case studies
  • Celebrate successes and implement strategies to build resilient teams

  Perfect for Leaders and Teams:

  • Combating disengagement and complacency
  • Building a culture of creativity, innovation, and psychological safety
  • Inspiring meaningful contributions and idea-sharing across the team

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