Hi! I’m Lisa
An intuitive coach, a writer and the champion in your corner
dedicated to helping you do business and life on your terms.
An Intuitive Coach, a writer and the champion in your corner dedicated to helping you do business and life on your terms.
Here’s how I can help:
- Ready to lead with greater alignment, clarity, and authenticity, not just professionally, but across all areas of your life? I help leaders strengthen their emotional and relational intelligence so they can lead with deeper self-awareness and influence without abandoning who they are in the process.
- Whether it’s learning to communicate more honestly, express yourself more fully, navigate relationships differently, or ask for what you truly want, I support leaders in developing their emotional intelligence, transforming the way they relate to themselves and others.
- If you’re feeling disconnected, uncertain, or at a personal or professional crossroads, I help you reconnect more deeply with yourself through spiritual development and navigate change with greater clarity, alignment, and self-trust.
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 fascination with people, relationships, and what separates transformational leaders from transactional ones led me on a lifelong journey of understanding human behaviour, emotional intelligence, and leadership from the inside out.
A mission I have to help leaders reclaim themselves, redefine success, and lead on their terms with greater emotional intelligence and authenticity in every area of their lives.
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.
Allow me to re-introduce myself…
I’m Lisa. 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?”
Long before I understood emotional intelligence, relational dynamics, or leadership development, people came to me when they needed perspective. Friends, colleagues, and family members would often seek me out for advice on relationships, difficult conversations, and life’s biggest decisions.
Looking back, it was one of the earliest signs of the work I would eventually be called to do.
While others often turned to me for guidance, my own leadership journey was shaped by navigating a wide range of leadership styles throughout my corporate career. Over the course of ten years, I worked under ten different leaders, giving me a front-row seat to both the impact of exceptional leadership and the cost of its absence.
Those experiences became an unexpected masterclass in human behaviour, workplace dynamics, trust, and influence, lessons that continue to inform my work today.
You might say I had great exposure and insight from working in multi-national, corporate environments of all sizes, male and female dominated environments, agencies, RPO and lastly, working from home while successfully serving the U.S. market. And yes, I learned a ton.
Throughout my corporate career, I experienced many of the challenges leaders and professionals continue to navigate today: being overlooked, navigating misalignment, managing difficult workplace dynamics, and operating in environments that lacked emotional safety, trust, and meaningful human connection.
Those experiences became the catalyst for a much deeper personal journey, one that led me inward. What began as a search for healing and understanding evolved into a profound exploration of emotional intelligence, spirituality, self-leadership, and human behaviour. And the work became transformational not only for me, but eventually for the women and leaders I began supporting.
Watching leaders come and go throughout my corporate career also revealed just how much traditional leadership models were missing. Many organizations still struggle to create environments where people feel psychologically safe, valued, seen, and empowered to fully contribute.
Those lived experiences now shape the foundation of my work and the conversations I’m most passionate about leading.
This work eventually evolved beyond coaching. It became the foundation for HER Lead, a curated leadership experience that brings together executives, established entrepreneurs, and changemakers to explore the future of leadership, well-being, relationships, and human connection.
Through coaching, speaking, facilitation, and community building, my mission remains the same: helping leaders cultivate the self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and relational capacity required to lead themselves and others in a rapidly changing world.
I believe when you understand yourself and bring the whole of you to work, you allow yourself to show up authentically and not as a fragment of who you are or a role you play.
Leadership begins long before you step into a boardroom, lead a team, or build a business.
It begins with the relationship you have with yourself.
When you understand who you are, what drives you, and how your experiences have shaped you, you stop leading from expectation and start leading from alignment.
You make decisions with greater clarity. You trust yourself more deeply. You communicate with intention. Your relationships improve. And the people around you feel the difference.
This is the work that changes not only careers and businesses, but lives.
I knew my lifelong dream wasn’t to climb the corporate ladder, and while it gave me the experience of making mistakes like many of you leading a team, my sights were set on making a global impact and building my own business (not someone else’s). One where I could pave a new way of leading and help others do the same. And today I’m doing that and more.
How I Work: The Intuitive Layer...
Over the years, my work has expanded beyond traditional leadership coaching.
What I’ve come to understand is that leadership isn’t simply about performance, strategy, or influence.
The most effective leaders I’ve worked with aren’t successful because they know more or work harder. They’re successful because they understand themselves.
They know how to navigate complexity, regulate emotions, build meaningful relationships, and trust themselves when the answers aren’t obvious.
My work sits at the intersection of emotional intelligence, relational mastery, intuitive insight, and leadership development, helping leaders create success that feels as meaningful on the inside as it appears on the outside.
I believe leadership isn’t just a skill; it’s reflective of your energy across all domains of your personal and professional life.
It’s the way you think, feel, connect, and make decisions beyond the corporate or business arena. It’s the level of consciousness you bring into every room you walk into.
- Emotional and Relational Intelligence
- Intuitive Guidance and Energetic Awareness
- Identity Work
- Values-based Decision Making
- Spiritual Principles for Alignment and Purpose
- Practical Strategies that Create Grounded, Lasting Change
This is leadership that honours both your humanity and your higher wisdom, where logic meets intuition, and where your Soul finally gets to lead.
My clients come to me for strategy, clarity, and direction. They stay because I help them access the truth of who they are and lead from there.
So what does this mean for you?
- It means you start to see yourself as the most powerful investment you’ll ever make in this lifetime.
- You stop abandoning parts of yourself to meet expectations and start leading from a place of authenticity, alignment, and wholeness.
- You recognize that your humanity isn't a liability in leadership; it's one of your greatest strengths. Your empathy, intuition, and emotional intelligence belong in the room.
- Words like freedom and authenticity become more than just buzzwords. They become your way of being.
- Your voice gets louder than your fear. Your self-trust stronger than your doubt.
- You embrace self-discovery not as a destination, but as a lifelong practice of growth, awareness, and becoming.
- You realize you're worth it.
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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 favorite travel destinations include Dubai, Greece and Spain!
2. I’m deeply devoted 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, learning a new healing modality I plan to use in my own practice and a whole new world that’s opened up for me.
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 newly created, 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.
