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Immergent is an initiative focused on bringing communities together for healing, creative experiences. Our goal is to amplify a community’s voice through creative outlets and help them address struggles, celebrate successes, and learn from one another. We accomplish this goal through four avenues: immersive experiences, production, publishing, and educational programing. By bridging cultural and generational gaps, it is our hope the communal healing can happen.
Our Immergent team is comprised of skilled individuals with extensive experience in the creative and event fields. Our focuses include:
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.
With over 25 years of effective executive leadership, our “legal eagle” partner Elizabeth Martin is a woman on a mission to overcome obstacles to assist people and organizations to grow and excel.
As Senior Vice President of a large Fortune 500 company, Elizabeth has overseen large and diverse capabilities charged with the development and implementation of ideas and experience-based solutions. Her role has ensured the maximizing of clients’ goals and delivering sustainable impact for the people and communities they serve.
A trusted advisor in leading turnaround businesses and high-growth organizations, Elizabeth has her PhD in Cultural Psychology, a Juris Doctor and holds a BSBA in Economics and Finance. An avid lover of all things art, she’s still working on becoming the ballerina pirate she dreamed of being as a little girl. Elizabeth is a native Texan who now makes her home in Washington DC by way of Santa Fe and Fort Worth.
Managed care expert Melody Bolen is a proven leader in a variety of operational settings, earning outstanding industry ratings for employee engagement and retention. Melody has overseen diverse teams for a Fortune 500 company across the business to drive improvements and achieve the overall mission. In this capacity, she has led the design and implementation of award-winning health care programs from the ground up. She was often called upon to evaluate and overhaul key business operations that required improvement. She is dedicated to drawing out the best in teams resulting in long-term solutions for the health of the business.
Originally a Marriage and Family Therapist, her career has always primarily focused on helping people. And it’s this rich trove of human experience that makes her so valuable in helping our Immergent clients evolve and grow. Whether providing therapeutic treatment programming for multiple non-profits, implementing innovative behavioral health care programs in communities to serve vulnerable communities as a small business owner, or bringing partners together for a common goal in a large corporation, Melody is, first and foremost, all about people.
When she’s not helping others, Melody enjoys all things Los Angeles – from its diverse dining choices to its music, museums, beaches, and nearby mountains. It all goes hand-in-hand with her devotion to supporting community programs and helping businesses become happier, healthier, and more successful.
Music is at the heart of partner Elizabeth Wills’ passion. But far from being just a professional recording artist and performing songwriter, this Elizabeth is also an established communications and marketing professional with an extensive track record of experience and success..
After running her own music company with over two dozen staff members for nearly 30 years, Elizabeth got her bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Texas at Arlington. She had so much fun she went on to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, getting her Master’s degree in Communication Management. Along the way she’s lived in New York City, Aspen, Austin and Fort Worth, Texas.
Elizabeth understands that change and fear of the unknown often paralyzes people into stillness. But she’s confident that the calm, assured approach of Immergent can inspire real shifts in the way people and organizations manage change. As she likes to tell the musicians in her band, “If I’m not nervous, you shouldn’t be either. We’ve got this.”
Meet our sister organization, The Change Agents. This business consultancy dives deep to help drive business growth for. Whether you are seeking help scaling your business, are experiencing leadership transition, or need a DEI plan, The Change Agents can help you navigate your path forward.
The Change Agents support Immergent by acting as the production house for all Immergent activities. Through their collective experience in creative concepting, community organization and event planning, they help bring every Immergent initiative to life.
Are you curious about how Immergent can make an impact in your community? Drop us a line and we’ll reach out with more information on Immergent. We want to learn more about you!
410-980-9662
440 S Main Street
Suite J
Fort Worth, TX 76104
