Speaking & facilitation
Rooms that leave different.
Lisa is a sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator - on conference stages, in principals’ PD days, board strategy sessions and paddock-side workshops. Story first, framework second, and people walk out with something to do on Monday, not just something to feel.
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Signature talks
The provocations that travel.
Every talk is shaped to the room - these are the threads they’re built from.
The BIGGEST risk to the future of food & fibre is your calendar
The paddock-to-boardroom keynote. The threat to the sector isn’t out there somewhere - it’s how its leaders spend their time. Your calendar is your culture audit, and the sector grows everything it needs except the leaders it needs next.
What if we got rid of HR departments and made them HF?
The Humans First thesis. Not paperwork first, not compliance first - humans first. Why the future of work belongs to organisations that stop polishing a broken system and design something people actually want to be part of.
Extraordinary teams are designed, not born
Belonging, strengths, clarity and courage - the conditions extraordinary teams are intentionally built on, told through the real, slightly messy stories of teams that got there.
Leadership Hauora - lead well without burning out
Hauora is richer than wellbeing - it’s the whole person. Start strong, finish clear: energy, boundaries, white space and real decompression for leaders carrying real weight.
Facilitation
Not just the stage. The whole room.
Keynotes open the door. Facilitation is where the shift happens - and it’s the work Lisa gets asked back for.
Conference facilitation
Holding a room of 40 or 400 - keeping the energy up, the conversation honest, and the takeaways practical.
Strategy days and offsites
Boards and leadership teams to a plan on a page, with the hard conversations had in the room rather than after it.
Professional development days
Interactive PD for principals and leaders, with pre-thinking before and microlearnings after, so it sticks.
Leadership programmes
Multi-month journeys with cohorts of leaders - facilitation, coaching and a community that keeps each other honest.
Such a pleasure to watch the master in action. You facilitated growth in everyone you engaged in coaching with.
Examples of the work
Where you’ll find it.
E Tipu 2025
Pitched the future of work to the agri sector’s big stage - the Innovation Showcase, around 400 in the room. Paddock-to-boardroom leadership for the people growing New Zealand’s future.
CNISPA principals’ conference
Keynote to a principals’ association at Waikato University, June 2025 - leadership, clarity and sustainable ways of working for the people running our schools.
Te Uru Amokura | Springboard Trust
Facilitator on the Strategic Leadership for Principals Programme since 2023 - 10-month leadership journeys with education leaders, year after year.
West Coast Principals’ Association
Productivity and leadership hauora with the school leaders of the Coast - practical ways of working that survive a principal’s real week.
NZRASLA
Strategic planning with a new curriculum - a customised, interactive facilitation session for around 80 principals, with pre-thinking before and microlearnings after.
Springboard Trust annual planning
An annual planning workshop for school leaders that scored an NPS of 95 - the top score in the country for that workshop.
AWDT Next Level
Alumni panellist on leadership and governance pathways for agri women stepping into their next role.
We both left feeling really excited about what’s ahead and confident that we’re going to learn so much from working with you. For the first time in a long time, I feel like we’re going to have a clearer direction in what we’re trying to achieve.
The SLT said it was without a doubt the best PD they had done in years.
Beyond the stage
Some of the best rooms don’t pay.
Giving back is one of Lisa’s personal values, so a share of this work is given, not sold - supporting education leaders through Te Uru Amokura (Springboard Trust) and Evaluation Associates, volunteering in youth development, and pro bono mahi for causes that line up with ours. If your kaupapa fits and the budget doesn’t, ask anyway.
On the stage
Got a room that needs shifting?
Tell us about the event, the audience and what you want them walking out with. We’ll shape the talk to the room.
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