I work with leaders in complex, fast-moving organizations who need their teams to perform without constant pressure. When leadership skills reinforce one another — confidence, empathy, trust, alignment, and decision making — teams stay engaged, take ownership, and deliver better results with less stress.
Build the Foundational Skills
Confidence, empathy, and trust create the foundation teams need to perform.
Build the Application Skills
Alignment, decision making, and effective one-on-ones turn strategy into execution and momentum.
Get Better Results
Motivated teams take ownership, collaborate better, and deliver better results with less oversight.
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This framework shows how confidence, empathy, trust, alignment, and decision making work together—so you can understand what’s actually shaping results before deciding where to focus.
Alan
Lisa starts with who you are and what kind of leader you want to be. She helps you develop a philosophy to make you a better leader.
Karen
With Lisa’s guidance, I resolved a tough team conflict. We now collaborate better—and our project completion rate has doubled!
Adam
Lisa helped our team take ownership, work better as a group, and handle tough conversations. Our whole organization is stronger because of her.
Betsy
In just 4 weeks, my team made more progress with your coaching than we did with our last coach in 7 months. Thank you, Lisa!
Ethan
Lisa helped me see personal patterns that were holding me back. I realized things I hadn’t noticed before—and it made a huge difference.
Shannon
I would have been floundering without my coaching calls with Lisa. She helped me see what I care about and guided me to a career path that matches my values.
Why Leadership Feels Harder Than It Should — and Leadership Skills that Actually Help
Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coach & Corporate Trainer
I work with experienced leaders who are performing well—and who have the awareness to know they need new skills to reach their next inflection point.
My clients are often seeking increased visibility, broader scope, or higher-stakes decisions. They know that intelligence and strength alone will not get them there. Instead, they want to show up differently—especially in the moments that matter most.
They want to be seen as ready for promotion. That means stronger leadership presence, clearer decision making under pressure, and the ability to lead effectively as ambiguity increases or scale expands. At the next level, judgment, confidence, and trust matter as much as results.
I bring a practical perspective to this work. Before becoming a leadership coach, I was an entrepreneur who set out to disrupt the plastic bag industry by launching a reusable grocery bag company in 2005.
Over the next 12 years, I became one of the nation’s top suppliers and led an international supply chain team of 200+. As an entrepreneur, I saw firsthand how confidence, empathy, trust, and alignment drive real performance—or quietly undermine it.
Those experiences now shape my coaching framework. For more than 8 years, I’ve worked with leaders—particularly in biotech and pharma—as they step into bigger roles, manage other leaders, and navigate enterprise-level decision making.
On average, my clients move into their next role within 12 months. Many see significant increases in scope, compensation, or influence—not because they worked harder, but because they learned how to lead at a higher level.
If you’re curious where you might be getting stuck—or what’s most likely to matter most at your next inflection point—I offer a short Leadership Skills Audit to help you see clearly where to focus next.
Read more about me in my book, Bag Lady.
Trusted by leaders at:
Citi • L’Oréal • Northeastern University • Teradyne • Ginko Bioworks • Emergent BioSolutions (makers of Narcan)
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