Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing and Communications from Westfield State University. She is a Certified Mindset Coach, Master Hypnotherapist, EFT Level 1 and NLP Practitioner in the Virginia Beach area. Lisa is a former member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, Toastmasters International, and Director of the Hampton Roads Public Speaker’s Association. She is also a current Life Member of the Virginia Junior Chamber and a Senator for Junior Chamber International (this is a designation given to less than 1% of all Jaycees in the world).
Lisa invests in continuous professional, self-improvement, neuro-science, and business-building training, and has trained with well-known success experts such as Jack Canfield and Tony Robbins. For nearly 8 years, Lisa was employed as a HypnoNutrition Coach and trainer with the locally-based national hypnosis franchise, Positive Changes Hypnosis Centers. For 25 years she has been professionally trained and active in the field of human performance coaching and transformation.
She has owned and operated her own personal & professional development business, Life by Design, LLC, since 1998, taking it to a full-time practice in 2006. Now under the dba of "The Coaching Center for MindTraining & Success. Her company has won awards for 9 years in numerous categories for the Virginian Pilot’s Best of Virginia Beach contest since 2009 as well as the 2020 Coastal Virginia Magazine's People's Choice Awards for Best Alternative Health Center of Southeastern Virginia. The Center provides one-on-one and group coaching as well as corporate & organizational training.. All these areas of expertise can be found at www.themindtrainingcenter.com.
Lisa has written and published numerous articles locally and nationally, presented lively talks and workshops to teach people how to more effectively use and improve the mind to achieve personal and professional goals, and been interviewed on local and national radio and TV stations. She has also produced numerous hypnosis and mental conditioning audios and co-authored 3 books on self-improvement, including her latest release, “An Unsinkable Soul.”
