Lisa De Nicola

About Me

There was a time when becoming a lawyer and a fashion model were what I dreamed of doing someday.

The perfect marriage of bringing justice to the injustices of the world and indulging in fashion; plus the potential to travel the world while modelling.

They didn’t have much in common with each other, other than I guess you can say they had everything to do with people.

Fast-forward, it’s what I later found myself specializing in for the better part of my career – people.

My love of people and understanding great leaders from terrible ones led me on a lifelong journey to self-leadership and transforming leadership in business one leader at a time.

A mission I have to help leaders like you be the
Director of your life and be your best at work.

A genius at playing matchmaker in the world of talent for multi-national, global organizations, I spent 15 + years of my corporate career working for industry leaders like L’Oréal USA and Salesforce.com.

I never lost my love of law (I can re-enact a strong Jack Nicholson, “You can’t handle the truth!”) and I love my sense of fashion like any woman, yet, I knew I had a far bigger impact to make in the world.

Lisa is a highly intuitive and savvy coach, who partnered with me to generate powerful and practical plans to achieve my goals. She has a strong presence, a natural can-do attitude and powerful communication skills that facilitated actionable insight. Nothing seemed impossible after a session with her and I invariably left with a new perspective and a clear sense of direction.

Lisa is excellent at helping you identify and discover how to do the things that speak to your heart, light you up, and make you feel great. Together we dove into ideas and desires that inspire me and unpacked what was blocking me. Lisa asks great questions to steer you toward clarity and feeling empowered to take your next right step. I left our session feeling very inspired and motivated!

Allow me to re-introduce myself…

I’m Lisa. Your Intuitive Leadership Coach, Corporate Magic Maker (a Trusted Advisor who believes in magic) and the champion in your corner when you’re looking to bring inspiration, power and depth to you and your business. Just to name a few.

I’ve been known as the go-to for as long as I can remember. My parents often used to say, “How do you know what to tell all your friends and colleagues about their relationship problems?”

For context, when I was much younger, that was the advice I was often dishing out. Kind of like your “Ask Sally” column, this was “Ask Lisa” and you’d get the truth sprinkled with some love and likely a little humour along the way.

As much as I was a source of counsel and a sounding board for others, I often struggled with finding that for myself. So much so, I spent much of my career watching a revolving door of leaders that came and went as I looked for mentorship and guidance. Ten managers in ten years to be exact. Many, leaving nothing but lessons on how not to lead.

Watching leaders come and go as often as I did taught me just how far behind corporate was in truly understanding what it means to create a safe place for people to show up, come to work and give their best.

I believe when you understand self and bring the whole you to work, you allow yourself to show up as the authentic you and not a fragment of who you are or a role you play.

Showing up in this way allows you to break traditional rules and norms in the world of corporate, but more importantly, to lead by example and show up as you are.

Thankfully, the future is brighter.

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What if you assumed the role of being the Director of your life, did business and life on your terms and threw out the rule book of someone else’s definition of success?

You’d start feeling like you were the main star of your life, you’d be a shining example of how TO lead and break all sorts of rules. (Hello, reimagining leadership).

What about when you bring more heart and soul to your business and life? It would be like seeing color for the first time after looking through a black and white lens.

The confidence to make more empowered decisions, the fulfillment and sheer fun of life again becomes sweeter, your self-worth is no longer a negotiation because you know you’re worth so much more than playing by someone else’s rule book for success.

This could be your transformation and what’s possible for you.

As for the details of life you won’t find anywhere else, here are some things that make me, ME. Ask me about them in your podcasts, on stage or in your next article feature.

Here are 11 fun facts about ME…

1. Italy is always on the list of vacation spots and has been for as long as I can remember. One of my favorite places by far (next to the Amalfi Coast) is Florence. Rich in culture, history and stunning art. Other travel destinations include Dubai, Greece and Spain!

2. I have a deep devotion to my spirituality. I dove into my spiritual development years ago and continue to nurture and walk the path of understanding our connection to the universe and learning universal truths. It led me to becoming certified in Reiki and learning a new healing modality I plan to use in my own practice!

3. I hold the same last name of the first president of Italy in 1948 – Enrico De Nicola. No relation as far as I know! It’s amazing how I didn’t follow suit and get into politics.

4. I’m the first in a family of 5 who went to University and graduated with a degree in HR Management. I originally majored in Marketing until the finance and economic courses part of the program killed it for me. I know my strengths!

5. I come from a family of entrepreneurs and was the only one in my family to work a 9-5pm . . . until now. 😊

6. I took my first city bike ride in downtown Toronto in the Summer of 2021 after living here for 10 years – yes, I know. Crazy. I’m a city walker, what can I say.

7. I’m a huge animal lover and grew up with a German Shepherd and Cameo cat. Interestingly enough, I never considered being a vet.

8. I sold cosmetics for almost 5 years when I was in school (way back when). Fast forward years later, I was one of the first Recruiters to join a then, team of 26, as part of a centralized function working in Talent Acquisition for L’Oréal USA, the largest beauty and cosmetic company for nearly 10 years.

9. I have a strong passion for advocacy and the law. It’s why I’ve had an acute focus on all things people in my corporate career and now, coaching bold leaders to help them alchemize so they can do business and life on their terms and redefine leadership. (Buh, bye outdated leadership ways)

10. Why leadership? Because I’ve seen poor leadership. I’ve heard of poor leadership from others and I’ve experienced poor leadership first hand. Our world needs to transform what leadership looks like from the highest levels on the global stage, down to the businesses and corporations we all know and see everyday. It’s time to redefine and elevate what leadership looks like.

11. I believe the world sorely needs to bring more heart and soul into the way we do business and live life. A coming back as they say, to who we are, a going back to basics, a relearning of what it means to connect back to the heart and honor the soul in ways we may have forgotten, but is possible.

So what does this mean for you?

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