Dr. Lisa C. Richardson is a physician, former CDC Division Director, and executive leader with more than 25 years of national leadership experience. She specializes in helping accomplished professionals, leaders, and organizations navigate complex decisions, leadership challenges, career transitions, and opportunities for meaningful change. Her distinctive strength lies not simply in her extensive experience, but in how she thinks—helping clients think more deeply, challenge assumptions, and make decisions that reflect their values and that they can own.

Dr. Richardson's coaching approach is practical, thoughtful, direct, and grounded in the realities of leadership. She doesn't give clients the answers; instead, she creates space, asks powerful questions, and provides perspective that helps them find their own answers and move forward with intention. Her consulting draws on extensive expertise in cancer prevention and control, public health leadership, program strategy, organizational effectiveness, and population health. She works with nonprofits, government agencies, foundations, academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and executive leaders to create meaningful, sustainable change.