Featured Speaker

Lisa Pinion

Lisa is a business leader with deep expertise in strategy, culture and organizational development. She has a strong track record creating award-winning cultures, bottom line impact and inspiring employee experiences. Notably, many of her clients have earned prestigious recognition as a best workplace in highly sought-after lists and rankings. Whether a client is award-winning or not—what drives her is helping so many good companies become the great workplaces they strive to be.
 
Clients engage Lisa for her tremendous insights into the inner workings of successful cultures and what it takes to create and sustain them. Prior to founding Pinion Solutions Group, Lisa spent seven years as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Assurance. There she developed innovative people strategies and programs that helped lead the company to national recognition as a great place to work. On the heels of this award, Best & Brightest Companies to Work For invited Lisa to join its Advisory Board and later head the organization’s Peer Affinity Group in Chicago. In this capacity, Lisa leads monthly leadership roundtables with Best & Brightest award winners across the Chicagoland area.
 
Her immersion within so many award-winning workplaces and their leadership affords her unique insights into a diverse range of businesses driving inspiring cultural change and business impact. As a result, she can draw upon a broad spectrum of creative problem-solving techniques, lessons learned, and recipes for success that she can bring back to her client work.
 
In her words, culture is a business strategy—and doing the right thing by your people is always the right thing for the business.