About Us

During her varied career, Dr. Lisa Pounders has enjoyed exploring multiple paths, often at the same time. After completing a BA in Computer Science, Lisa worked in the computer industry (including at Microsoft) as a programmer, technical writer, and project manager. Complementing this work, she also honed skills as a fine artist and poet, and eventually earned a master’s degree in Humanities. Over the last decade, Lisa completed a PhD in Depth Psychology and worked as an instructor, researcher, mentor, developmental editor, program manager, and consultant. A thread that weaves through her diverse background is how she brings deep curiosity and active creativity to everything she engages.

What Lisa values most in work is a relational and open attitude, a leadership perspective that prioritizes tending to relationships between fellow humans and their communities as well as to the natural world. She strongly believes that our well-being depends on these connections and that recognizing the inherent interconnectedness of all things is integral to cultivating vitality and sustainability in communities and businesses. Her experience includes actively promoting creative ways to relate to and reinterpret reality—to see into the issues facing us differently, and from multiple perspectives. This idea is a cornerstone that inspires Lisa to collaborate with individuals, businesses, and organizations who want to engage the inherent complexity of modern life in order to positively evolve how we live and work.