Lisa Prior

Lisa is passionate about her work (20+ years) as a leadership coach and culture change consultant. She understands that leaders at all levels shape the work environment and that leadership and organizational culture go hand in hand. Lisa’s mission: to enable leaders to bring out the best in themselves and their people so they create win-win relationships with one another and the organization.

Whether working with a biotech startup, an established non-profit or a Fortune 500, organizations move through predictable stages of growth or transition. Using custom approaches to address what is needed, Lisa serves as:

Leadership Coach (one-on-one, senior teams, and assessments)

Change Consultant (culture, organizational design, and talent development and management)

Expert Facilitator (board discussions, team development, strategic planning)

Keynote Speaker (on leadership, teams, executive performance and culture)

Lisa is currently on the Steering Committee of the Executive Development Roundtable at Boston University. At Bank Boston (now Bank of America), she honed her leadership skills as Chief of Staff, Corporate and Community Affairs, where she acted as the business officer for an 80-person, $25 million division of the bank. The group’s best practices won it the US Department of Commerce’s Ron Brown Award for Corporate Responsibility.

She also served in other roles at Bank Boston, including Human Resources Project leader for a major merger. Her research summary of career development strategies was published by Boston University’s Graduate School of Management.

Previous to consulting, she was responsible for leading research projects at Harvard University and served as a resident advisor to undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lisa’s publications include Research in Management Consulting, and her new book on career development, Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won’t Get from Your Boss.

Lisa earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Fairfield University and Master’s Degree in Organizational Development from Boston University. Lisa lives in Newton, MA with her husband and two children and recently completed her first marathon.