About Alisha De Lorenzo: engagement Strategist | Keynote Speaker | High Performance Coach
We think that people need to feel alive to do creative work, when people really need the agency to do the creative work that brings them alive.
ABOUT
What brings you alive?
Over 15 years ago, working in public education, Alisha was charged with helping her failing school district improve culture and performance. A challenge that would pave the way for her to guide industries, organizations and individuals to solve seemingly intractable problems through a deceptively simple approach - Positive Deviance, which stands on one belief:
In every organization there are people whose outlier practices are generating remarkable outcomes despite facing the same barriers and obstacles as everyone else. With their innovative ways living outside of the conditioned, cultural norms of the community, their solutions remain hidden in plain sight.
After years of experiencing burnout and the isolation that comes from challenging conventional thinking, Alisha recalls the feelings of hope and aliveness that came from being given the agency to discover and scale the solutions that mattered most. This changed EVERYTHING about how she viewed problems, their solutions and how to engage people in a way that brings them alive.
Through a deceptively simple approach, I help leaders unleash aliveness in their people by giving them the agency to discover and scale the positive deviance in their midst.
Alisha doesn’t merely disrupt the status quo, she redefines it with a bold and purposeful vision.
While Alisha’s efforts went on to transform the system of education across NJ, her influence began to spread across industries. In 2019 she was invited to speak to corporate audiences to help address the toxic work cultures, escalating mental health issues, disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change and ineffective leadership strategies that were plaguing companies.
Leaning on more than 20 years of combined experience as a speaker, high-performance coach, educator and therapist, Alisha shares a proven framework to help leaders uncover and scale positive disruption.
Her riveting keynote speeches and workshops provide the tools and frameworks to help teams infuse aliveness back into their work, revolutionize corporate culture and amplify the solutions already alive within organizations and just waiting to be discovered.
Applying my Social Significance Framework helps leaders create a culture where people feel free to bring their innovative, edgy, future-forward practices to the forefront and do so in such a way that others don’t feel threatened by that deviation.
We must create the spaces where people don’t just fit in or stand out but thrive with each other.
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SPEAKING CLIENTS
I’M A TRUSTED PARTNER TO:
Media & Public Presentations
Making Mattering Matter
LinkedUp Podcast Episode 108
YMCA Provides Counseling for Back-to-School Stress Two River Times
Mental Health Resource Guide
New Jersey Department of Education
ADDITIONAL MEDIA
Health and the LGBTQ Community
DOE Digest with the New Jersey Department of Education: Voices from the NJDOE SEL Forward Conference
What is Mindfulness?: A NJSBA Interview
Getting Teacher Buy-in on Mindfulness: A NJSBA Interview
How is Mindfulness Implemented in the Schools?: A NJSBA Interview
The Impact Mindfulness Has Had on a School District: A NJSBA Interview
Social Emotional Learning and Wellness Become Part of the School Day in Asbury Park: NJSBA
FREE TEAM ENGAGEMENT RESOURCE
Discover The Social Significance Window
Get Alisha’s free quick guide on the Social Significance Window – a framework that demonstrates the distinct aspects of belonging and mattering that helps identify how we can lead more people to be engaged.