Your Partner in Leader, Team, and Organizational Development
Trusted, senior advisor on human behavior in leadership systems - for when the stakes are high and the challenges are complex
About
Lisa Gordon, PhD LP
CONSULTING LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Dr. Gordon is a consulting psychologist who works with senior leaders and leadership teams at critical moments of complexity, transition, and consequence. Her work focuses on the human dynamics that shape performance: how individuals lead, how teams function, and how organizations build and sustain alignment under pressure.
With a rigorous foundation in counseling psychology and decades of experience in organizational consulting, she brings both depth and precision to her work. She is often engaged when the challenges are not only strategic, but also human/behavioral --- and when effectiveness depends on insight, candor, and the capacity to navigate complexity in self and others.
Her approach is rigorous, discreet, and tailored. She partners closely with leaders to strengthen judgment, expand relational capacity, and enable meaningful, durable change.
Call/Text: 612-718-5347
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Background
- PhD in Psychology, Dept of Psychology, University of Minnesota.
- Licensed Psychologist (LP 4804), bringing a deep understanding of people, the brain, and how real growth and change happen.
- Senior leadership experience overseeing the executive coaching practice within a consultancy/firm.
- Over 20 years of impactful coaching and consulting with leaders, senior executives and executive teams; and of facilitating high-impact strategic planning and organizational design efforts.
- Expert in the use of a broad variety of best-in-class assessments for the purposes of insight building, leadership development, and the selection of leaders for key roles.
KEY LENSES
- Psychology: The brain and how learning and growth really happen
- Leadership: What it takes to be successful at different levels of leadership
- Organizational Design: How the context of oganizational structure and role design serve success
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The Acceleration Flywheel™
At GreyBirch, we know how real change happens. Whether in individual coaching, team development, strategic planning, organizational design, or any other growth endeavor, we introduce five interdependent forces that form a flywheel, with each step fueling the next in a continuously rising loop.
The Five Forces of the Leadership Acceleration Flywheel ™:
- Insight - Data-driven: Where are we now? Where do we want to go?
- Alignment - What matters most to stakeholders?
- Creative Action - What practices, mindsets, and design elements are needed? Where is there authentic energy to move or grow?
- Reflection - With experimentation, what worked and what did not? How have we evolved? What have we learned?
- Evolution - From our now elevated and evolved perspective, competence, and confidence --- joy happens. Now what --> back to Insight
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THE Mission
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Recent Engagements
Executive Coaching
- Physician leader who readied himself and was selected as Department Chair within a large academic health system
- Leader who moved from CEO of a business to group-level CFO, and who was selected by a business journal as CFO of the year
- Leader who led strategy for an organization, who readied for, and then moved into the CEO role
- High-potential director-level leader readying for a Vice President role within a CPG marketing function
- Enterprise operations leader transitioning to a first-time Business Unit leader role in the sports vehicle industry
Team coaching
- Several different Cabinets within R1 research institutions
- Top of the house operations and finance team of a large R1 university
- Executive team of a large privately-held agricultural producer
trusted advisor coaching & consulting
Multi-year thought partner in leadership development, talent development, and strategy to several senior leaders and leadership teams:
- Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Department Chair, Law Partner, Chief Executive Officer, Vice President of Supply Chain, Vice Chancellor, Chief of Staff, Vice Provost
Strategic Planning & Organizational design
- Visioning work with Administrative leaders within a Medical School
- Several academic units within a R1 research university
- Accelerated Executive Team facilitated multi-pronged engagement to: refine mission, determine vision, identify 18-month priorities, and redesign of the unit to better align to updated mission and vision
OTHER SERVICES
- Seasoned real estate and property management executive looking to explore next steps in his career
- Senior executive looking to better align what they do with who they are