Whether you’re hosting a conference, leadership summit, company off-site, or team retreat, Lisa will create an impactful experience that participants will talk about for years to come.
Lisa crafts her messages to resonate deeply with high-performing audiences, sparking insight, reflection, and momentum. With a blend of real-world strategy and heartfelt storytelling, Lisa’s talks inspire audiences to think differently, lead more powerfully, and commit to taking action.
Lisa’s Signature Keynotes
Women In Medicine: Elevate Your Authority, Influence, and Compensation
Generative Power: Amplifying Your Strength, Influence, and Success with Each Interaction
This powerful keynote explores how everyday interactions can fuel lasting growth, resilience, and clarity. Blending storytelling with actionable strategies, audiences learn to harness challenges and choices as sources of personal power—redefining what’s possible in both life and leadership.
A transformative keynote designed to help women in medicine overcome hidden barriers, build unshakable confidence, and step fully into the leadership roles they’ve earned. Discover practical strategies to gain influence, recognition, and lasting impact in your career.
Masterpiece in Progress: Designing a Resilient Future After Breast Cancer
An inspiring keynote for breast cancer survivors and supporters, this session helps reframe the journey as a powerful masterpiece in progress. Through personal storytelling and practical strategies, audiences discover how to embrace their experiences, reclaim resilience, and design a purposeful life beyond diagnosis.
Ignite Culture Transformation with Everything DiSC®
This interactive keynote uses the DiSC® framework to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and healthier team dynamics. With engaging facilitation and real-time insights, audiences gain a deeper understanding of themselves and others—creating the foundation for lasting behavioral change and impactful leadership.
Masterpiece in Progress: Designing a Resilient Future
An uplifting keynote that helps audiences reframe challenges as essential parts of their personal masterpiece. Through storytelling and practical reflection, participants learn to embrace uncertainty, tap into their inner strength, and design a future rooted in purpose, resilience, and self-leadership.
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Speaker, Workshop Creator, and Results-driven Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
Lisa Conners, MBA, ACC, CPC knows from experience that learning from and celebrating the ups and downs of life are the key to creating an exhilarating future! Lisa has ridden the roller-coaster of multiple professional and personal transitions and her programs reflect real-life lessons and humor from these experiences.
Lisa knows that human connection and deeper conversations are created through events that foster vulnerability, laughter, and personal discovery. With each keynote and workshop, she creates impactful, memorable events that energize attendees to return year-after-year.
Lisa openly shares the challenges that she has overcome, and the strategies she developed for optimistic resilience. Her experiences include overcoming breast cancer, initiating a divorce after 24 years of marriage, selling her children’s play facility during a recession, and thriving in multiple commercial and non-profit leadership roles.
Her programs reflect her deep understanding that every challenge strengthens our internal power, expanding our capacity to inspire and serve others. Audiences appreciate that Lisa is candid and vulnerable about her experiences, and this allows them to reflect more deeply about how to create greater impact in their lives.
Prior to founding Ever Better® Speaking and Coaching, Lisa’s 30+ year career in the DC-area included leadership roles with finance, insurance, non-profit, government contracting, financial consulting and telecom organizations. She even owned and operated a 24,000 sq. ft. children’s play facility for seven years!
As an Authorized Partner for Everything DiSC Assessments and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Lisa often incorporates assessments and research about team dynamics into her programs. She is certified through the International Coach Federation (ICF) and College of Executive Coaching and earned her Accreditation in Public Relations through the Public Relations Society of America.
Lisa holds an MBA from University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and a BA from Colgate University. She is a past Toastmasters Club President. Lisa is an active member of the Angel Capital Association and a Board Member of Citrine Angels, a ground-breaking angel investing organization dedicated to supporting early stage businesses and educating angel investors.
When she’s not speaking or working with clients, Lisa can be found playing golf with her adult son, doing Pilates or [solidcore] workouts, playing pickleball, painting furniture yellow, exploring the world, or spending time with her many family members and friends.