 Lisa Quast is CEO and President of Career Woman, Inc. During her years of groundbreaking business and career success in traditionally male-dominated companies and industries, Lisa’s personal experiences developed in her a passion for helping women achieve their career aspirations. She is the author of the recently released book “Your Career, Your Way: Personal Strategies for Achieving Your Career Aspirations”, is a sought-after professional speaker, trainer, and executive coach, and was recently named one of the top 40 under 40 business leaders in Seattle by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Background
For the last two decades, Lisa has completed projects around the world in areas such as strategic planning, marketing, sales, service, business development, and operations. She spent the last ten years of her career working for Philips Medical Systems, a ~6 billion Euro division of Royal Philips Electronics (a ~30 billion Euro company). She was the Vice President of Marketing for their Global Customer Services business and most recently, Executive Vice President of Strategy Planning, another global position.
Lisa is widely recognized both as a leader who successfully develops people and organizations and as an individual committed to sharing her experience through executive coaching and mentoring, consulting, training, and professional speaking. Her work has improved individual and team results at many companies including Philips, Medtronic, Nordstrom, Toshiba America Medical Systems, ATL Ultrasound, and Lifescan, Inc.
Lisa holds an Associate of Applied Science Degree (marketing), a Bachelor’s Degree (business), a Graduate Certificate (mergers and acquisitions) from Stanford Business School, is a certified Green Belt in Process Improvement and has also earned her Certified Executive Coach (CCE) designation. Lisa has completed more than 30 additional management-training courses in various areas such as project management, total quality management, and leadership. She believes in continuously improving her knowledge and is currently completing her MBA.
Coaching
Lisa is a certified Executive Coach (CCE designation) and has over a decade of coaching experience working with women in all levels of the workplace, from entry level to the executive level.
Lisa is a graduate of three modeling academies and an advanced acting program, has modeled professionally (runway, print, and television), and has competed in and won scholarships in numerous pageants (at the state and national level within the United States). Her extensive background allows Lisa the ability to work with women in the area of personal image management, focusing on wardrobe, hair and make-up for the workplace and for speaking engagements and meetings around the world.
Lisa develops presentations and coaches speakers for internal company meetings, annual meetings, and various media events such as analyst briefings and television and newspaper interviews. Her coaching and training techniques help speakers achieve confidence and professional and personal recognition.
Her coaching areas of focus include:
- Leadership Development
- Career Strategic Planning
- Personal Image Management
- Presentation and Speaking Skills
- Re-entering the Workforce
- Meeting Planning
- Career Planning and Placement
Consulting
Lisa’s areas of business expertise for consulting services include:
- Marketing - Products/upgrades, services, and installed base marketing including marketing communications
- Sales - Field sales and inside sales
- Operations - Sales and service operations management
- Strategic Planning - Products and services planning as well as overall business planning for small and medium-sized companies, divisions within large companies, and large companies
- Personnel - Restructuring and organizational changes, change management, as well as day-to-day personnel operations
- Communications - Presentations, speeches, announcements, press releases, annual reports, marketing plans, product plans, and internal employee communications
- Meeting Planning - From small meetings to national or global
- Project Management
Public Speaking
Lisa is an accomplished professional speaker comfortable working with small groups of people to presenting and motivating hundreds. She became “hooked” on professional speaking after she entered her first speech competition at the age of nine. Lisa is available as a professional speaker for customized presentations at:
- Company Meetings
- Association Meetings
- Chamber of Commerce Meetings
- Conventions
- Graduations
- Sorority Meetings and Conventions
Training
Lisa has extensive professional training experience. Her areas of training are customizable for individuals to large groups, and include:
- Career Strategic Planning
- Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Presentation Skills
- Consultative Selling
- Interviewing Skills and Techniques
- Communication Skills
- Leadership Development
Hobbies and Interests
Lisa Quast resides in the Seattle, Washington area with her husband and three daughters. She is creative and artistic, loves to paint, write, read, and participate in sports. She is a former competitive gymnast, body builder, power lifter, and baton twirler (earning 6th place at the 1980 United States Championships). Lisa is also a former gymnastics coach and personal trainer. Currently, in her free time she enjoys running, weightlifting (just for fun now), hiking, biking and skiing. She loves traveling, learning about other cultures, and has donated hundreds of hours in community service to mentor women and young adults to help them achieve their career aspirations.
Awards and Honors
- 2007 "A Woman to Celebrate" Award, from the ACT Theatre, YWCA of Seattle-King County and Snohomish County, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- 2006 Woman of the Year Award, American Biographical Institute
- 2005 Puget Sound Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
- 2004 Philips Medical Systems World Champion, Quality Improvement Competition
- 2004 Philips Medical Systems Pinnacle Board Winner
- 2001 Medtronic "Spark Plug" Award
- 1997, 1996, and 1995 ATL Ultrasound Top Sales Awards
- 1990 Toshiba America Medical Systems President's Award
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