Lisa Giruzzi has more than 25 years of experience helping people be more successful through effective communication.  She has learned the key elements necessary for people to achieve their goals and create the life they want.  She is the author of 31 Days to Transform Your Life and co-author of the Amazon bestseller 42 Rules for Creating WE which Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, called “today’s greatest guide for team success.”  The book reached #1 on Amazon in Leadership, Management, Motivation, and Organizational Behavior, and was an overall bestseller.  Lisa has co-authored articles on Appreciative Leadership that have appeared in Leadership Excellence Magazine (a Warren Bennis publication). Her newest book, Bringing Out The Best In Your Employees: The Ultimate Guide for Managers and Supervisors to Engage and Empower Employees to Be Effective and Productive will be available spring 2010.  She is a co-host of the television talk show Real Conversations and is a dynamic speaker captivating audiences with her powerful message at keynotes, presentations and workshops nationwide.

Lisa began her career in the field of social work primarily working with families in distress.  During those difficult times, effective communication was essential to create successful outcomes in very emotionally challenging situations.  Her experience as a social worker left her with one profound lesson – the key to being successful in any situation in life was her ability to communicate.  From that time, she made it her mission to learn everything she could about effective communication and its impact on one’s ability to produce results.

In fact, after participating with one of the country’s first self-development corporations that specializes in communication and its impact on performance, Lisa was so drawn by her mission, that she left her profession and went to work for this corporation.  Since then, she has designed and led transformational seminars, studied Appreciative Inquiry with its creator Dr. David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management, and in 2003 she founded her own consulting company, Transformational Conversations.  She has had the privilege of working with thousands of people to achieve their goals and attain success through effective communication.

For the last seven years, she has focused her mission on causing positive, sustainable change in the workplace.  She specializes in assisting organizations to empower and engage their employees to be more successful and productive by training managers and supervisors in effective communication.

Lisa is a founding member of The Creating We Institute, an international group of critical thinkers dedicated to harvesting new forms of engagement and communication in the workforce. Additionally, she is a co-owner of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a consortium of consultants dedicated to creating a positive revolution in change using Appreciative Inquiry.