
Prior to co-founding Thought Ensemble, Lisa was the Managing Vice President of Pariveda Solutions’ Denver office, as well as a national developer and leader of their IT Strategy practice. Her consulting career includes applications development and strategy roles with Accenture (Andersen Consulting), The Boston Consulting Group, Tactica Technology Group, and Hitachi Consulting. She has an MBA from Duke University and a Computer Science degree from Trinity University. Lisa is an active member of EO (The Entrepreneurs’ Organization) and she serves on the board of OWL (Open World Learning).
In her spare time, Lisa enjoys golf, traveling, and spending time with her husband and two sons.
Since then, I’ve served in leadership positions at a variety of consultancies, including systems integrators and strategic consultancies, but I’ve focused almost entirely on the intersection between organizations and technology. I’ve gotten to know hundreds of CIOs, CTOs, and CEOs and worked closely with dozens of them through organization, process, and technology transformations. My early IT strategy experience was focused on the traditional CIO and IT organization, but since starting Thought Ensemble, I’ve also worked extensively with CTOs in companies where technology is the product or service sold to the end customer. I’ve now helped many technology organizations make the transformation into a more strategic organization focused on delivering technology solutions to external stakeholders.
What I appreciate most about Thought Ensemble is that we are focused on what we love: consulting and thought leadership to help organizations achieve their transformations. I love the way we work together and with executive leaders as a little think tank that generates big ideas and solves big problems for their organizations.
Some of my favorite things include:
• Watching and helping technology change businesses and industries faster and faster
• Designing solutions that consider organizational systems, including all the interdependencies between strategy, services, processes, people, culture, and technology
• Making strategy actionable with unique approaches to ensure that the great ideas don’t end up on the shelf
• Never forgetting a favorite quote: “Culture eats strategy for lunch every day”
If you know me, you know my eyes light up when I get going on technology and organizations. I’m grateful for the chance to do what I love, with colleagues and clients who challenge my thinking every day.
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