Lisa Prior, Ed.M.  

Lisa serves as an executive coach and organizational change consultant. She is a recognized author and speaker, quoted or featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Success Magazine, and other media. She works with executives at the intersection of their leadership effectiveness and the change they seek to create. Her life-long work has been devoted to creating more inclusive organizations.

As a coach, Lisa works with C-Suite, VP, and high-potential executives to build personal resilience, mindset, and professional capabilities to lead themselves and others through today’s complex and uncertain world. As an organizational consultant, Lisa serves clients who are “Moving the Organization” to a new level of performance. She helps envision and innovate new approaches, amplify, or create a vision, gain consensus on new directions and establish a roadmap for change so your teams and organization thrive. Lisa draws on both practical experience and academic training in positive psychology, global cultures, systems thinking, organizational change and design, instructional design, qualitative research, and adult learning to enable leaders to build an organization where all people thrive. Virtual and in-person methods are seamlessly blended. Lisa draws on proven proprietary frameworks, clarifying your goals and measures of success. This outcome-oriented, multi-disciplinary approach balances the longer-term picture with the pressing need for practical solutions today. 

Education and Affiliations

• Fairfield University, Diploma-Psychology and Spanish degrees

• Boston University, Master of Education in Organizational Learning and Development

• Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, research appointment in corporate social responsibility

• Master Coach Supervisor, Executive Coaching Program, William-James College (MA)

• Fellow, Institute of Coaching (IOC)

• International Coaching Federation (ICF) Certified

• MIT Sloan School of Management, Executive Coach

• Harvard University Business School, Executive Coach

• Vice President, The Boston Club, an organization of 600 executive women advancing women’s leadership and board membership

• (Past) Steering Committee Member, Questrom School of Management Executive Development Roundtable

• (Past) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Resident Advisor, Spanish House

Past and Current Clients

• GSK (formerly TESARO)

• Takeda (formerly Millennium Pharmaceuticals)

• Alexion Pharmaceuticals

• Advisor360

• Bank of America (formerly Fleet)

• Boston Scientific

• Medtronic

• Acadian Asset Management

• Brown Brothers Harriman

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)

• Haemonetics

• Rue La La

• Harvard Business Publishing (Staples; Cisco)

• Harvard Business School

• MIT Sloan School of Management

• Clinton Foundation

Personal Interests

Lisa recently completed a 21-day challenge on racial equity and justice and is leading other groups through this experience. She finds joy spending time with her spouse, two children and extended family, and finds quiet and insight while scuba diving, on long runs with rescue dog Allie, and birdwatching in spring. Regular Zoom conversations with friends are fortifying in a pandemic. She wouldn’t describe a recent attempt to cram a 16-week wine sommelier course into 16 days as “happy” but would say it fulfilled an item on her bucket-list.