We attack the issues that have the greatest opportunity for making a difference in your organization.
We spend time up front to understand your business context to ensure the engagement is focused on the highest priority issues.
We will tell you if you are asking for services that won't ultimately have impact and will adjust the scope of work accordingly.
We design our approach to fit your organization's needs.
While we have established methodologies that we've honed over time, we consider these tools to be applied when appropriate rather than a one size fits all approach.
We consider your goals, your culture, your timeline, and your budget when we co-design the project process with you.
We believe partnering with clients results in invested leadership.
You are the experts on your organization and we greatly value that expertise.
The plan developed is your plan not ours; thus, you need to be deeply involved in its creation.
Our job is not just to diagnose the problem--our job is to solve the problem.
We provide clear recommendations that are able to be implemented.
We work with the team to develop a detailed plan for how, when and by whom the recommendations will be implemented.
We are realistic about what can be achieved and how quickly.
We have run organizations like yours and understand the realities and constraints of your business.
We help you set achievable deadlines and identify barriers that may hinder implementation.
We always consider the impact of change on a client's people.
We know that even positive changes can be difficult for staff and we help you manage change to minimize disruption.
We never lose sight of the fact that the people in your organization deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
Lisa Karlisch provides consulting services to foundations, non-profit institutions, and corporations in the social services, education, and health care domains. She helps organizations set their strategic direction, build sustainable business models, and establish effective organizational systems/structures to optimize the execution of their missions. Lisa believes in the importance of driving strategy through execution to enable organizations to deliver results.
Lisa has a broad base of both operational and consulting experience in both non-profit and commercial organizations. She served as Chief Program Officer at the Center for Multicultural Human Services, a community mental health organization dedicated to serving the needs of immigrants and refugees. Lisa was Chief Administrative Officer for Buchanan & Edwards, a government IT consulting firm, where she led all of the support functions of the organization. Lisa’s consulting experience began at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, where she focused in the health care and non-profit sectors.
Lisa received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from Duke University and a B.S. from Virginia Tech in Psychology and Sociology.