Lisa Sansom is a Positive Interventionist who works with leaders, teams, and organizational units to help them be more effective and supportive. Lisa works from a basis of applied positive psychology, bringing research-based tools and methodologies into her consulting, speaking, corporate training and coaching. She believes in taking the best of “what is” and leveraging these insights to move forward to help workplaces be better places to work.

Lisa has run her own business, LVS Consulting, for the past 15+ years, and has been employed in higher education, government, financial, manufacturing and retail. Her global clients span many industries in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Lisa is certified in Prosci change management methodologies, ShiftPositive 360 leadership tools, Gallup StrengthsFinder, Stanford’s Design Your Life, and The Change Cycle. She is also a PCC (Professional Certified Coach) with the International Coach Federation.

Her research interests include leadership of all sorts – whether that be formal or informal. Her research will propose an empirical framework for the effective delivery of spoken positive feedback that enhances both relational qualities, such as trust, and task performance. This area of interest brings together her experience and expertise in business, education, and positive psychology. Lisa has already presented her early research in Iceland, Philadelphia, Toronto, and virtually, at various international conferences. She is leveraging this research to create corporate workshops and informational webinars.

Lisa holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (2010) and her MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (2000). She also holds an Honours BA in French from the University of Waterloo (1992) and a B.Ed. from Brock University (1992). She is thrilled to be in the DBA program and add yet another wonderful university to this list.