Lisa Even is on a mission to help leaders and organizations create the ultimate ripple effect, the kind that moves people and drives impact.
Better leaders. Better culture. Better results.
A nationally recognized keynote speaker, best-selling author of Joy Is My Job, and host of the Have Good Ripple Effect podcast, Lisa has partnered with top organizations across the world to help teams navigate change and create remarkable performance.
Through her signature S.E.A. Model (Show up, Engage, Adapt), Lisa teaches that culture and performance aren’t built in meetings; they’re built in the moments in between, through attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs.
A former healthcare operational leader at a Fortune 500 company overseeing a multimillion-dollar budget, Lisa learned firsthand that great leaders don’t wait for culture to happen, they build it intentionally. Drawing on more than a decade of leadership experience, she equips audiences to move from the day-to-day hustle to captaining their own ship. 

Her message blends strategy, science, humor, and connection, showing that when leaders focus on creating a Good Ripple Effect, results always follow.

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Joy Is My Job

Corporate Leadership Expert | Employee Engagement Speaker | Fortune 500 Leader | Bestselling Author

Lisa Even

Minimal slides — mostly live delivery

Thoughtful & Conversational

Keynote

Workshop / breakout session

Culture & Connection

60 min

Mostly Practical

Workplace Culture

Leadership

Emotional Intelligence

Communication & Connection

Team Building

Change

Adaptability

Happiness

Leadership Mindset

Women & the Workplace

Female Motivation and Empowerment

Peak Performance

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.Perfect for Leaders and Teams:<ul><li>Navigating the challenges of a dynamic workplace</li><li>Wanting to leverage culture as a competitive advantage</li><li>Trying to create an environment where teams feel empowered and engaged</li></ul> Key Takeaways:<ul><li>Identify and address cultural dysfunctions that hinder growth and engagement</li><li>Evaluate team culture by analyzing current attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs</li><li>Gain practical tools to improve team morale, productivity, and retention</li></ul>

Have Good Ripple Effect: Building Positive Culture & Results

Today’s leaders aren’t just navigating one transformation.&nbsp;They’re leading through continuous change.&nbsp;New priorities. Shifting expectations. Faster timelines.&nbsp;And teams who are trying to keep up without burning out.&nbsp; 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. What the Audience Will Walk Away With Participants will leave with:<ul><li>A practical framework for preparing themselves mentally and emotionally before leading others through change</li><li>Tools to recognize and reduce change fatigue for themselves and their teams</li><li>Shared language leaders can use to help teams reframe uncertainty and stay engaged</li><li>A simple, repeatable strategy for introducing and reinforcing change with team members</li></ul>

Harnessing the Energy of Change: Leading Without Burnout or Fatigue

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 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.Perfect for Leaders and Teams:<ul><li>&nbsp;Looking to boost team morale</li><li>Fostering team ownership: Joy is a shared responsibility, and leaders empower team members to shape their workplace experiences</li><li>Introducing Small Habits: Simple, consistent actions build cohesion and accountability better than occasional events</li></ul>Key Takeaways:<ul><li>Design engagement plans and activities that increase satisfaction and reduce turnover</li><li>Foster an ownership mindset that inspires creativity and accountability</li><li>Spread a Positive Ripple Effect: Empower teams to own their joy and workplace experience</li></ul>

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

It's easy to believe that joy is something we'll experience someday.After the project.After the promotion.After the kids get older.After life finally slows down.The problem? Life has a funny way of replacing one responsibility with another.Many women find themselves carrying the weight of careers, families, relationships, responsibilities, and endless to do lists while constantly putting themselves at the bottom of the priority list. They spend so much time taking care of everyone and everything else that they rarely stop to ask a simple question:Am I enjoying my life while I'm living it?Research shows that people who experience positive emotions are more productive, creative, resilient, and effective. Joy isn't simply a result of success. It helps fuel it. Yet most of us track our calendars, finances, goals, and performance metrics while rarely paying attention to one of the greatest predictors of our energy, engagement, and overall well being.What if we viewed joy like a bank account or a key performance indicator? Something we intentionally invest in, monitor, and grow over time.In this inspiring and practical keynote, bestselling author Lisa Even challenges audiences to stop waiting for joy and start creating it. Through personal stories, relatable examples, science, and actionable strategies, participants will discover how small choices, everyday moments, and intentional habits can create more energy, connection, and fulfillment.What the Audience Will Walk Away With Attendees will leave with simple tools to cultivate joy in the middle of real life. Not someday when everything is done, but now, amidst the beautiful chaos of work, family, relationships, and responsibilities.Joy isn't something we find after we've taken care of everyone else, it's something we choose, cultivate, and create along the way.

For Women’s Events: Making Joy Your Job

“I really appreciated how she spoke about micro-moment opportunities and how even the smallest moments can have a meaningful impact—either positively or negatively.
Also - the idea of asking specific but easy questions to find the thing we have in common to grow relationships.
I’ve been working on trying to be a part of my teams’ joy (asking about their hobbies, outside of work successes, activities, etc.)

Samantha, attendee Women in Construction event

“Lisa is an energetic and actionable speaker!  Her thoughts regarding leadership resonate with executive audiences. She keeps the focus on being outcomes driven, while being lively and thought-provoking. Her examples and nuggets of information that are easy to take with you and incorporate into work or life”

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