Leading with Confidence Starts Here

Lisa Rubenstein - Executive Leadership Coach

What Leadership at your level looks like

  • YOU are known for your leadership agility. you cut through complexity, identify what matters, and make decisive, high-impact choices without hesitation, without second-guessing.

  • YOUR Time reflects your priorities. You protect space for vision and strategy. you lead the business - you’re not consumed by it.

  • YOU have the right voices in your corner. a small, trusted circle of advisors who challenge your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and tell you what others won’t.

  • You Lead with confidence and credibility. Your executive presence is unmistakable. People follow you because of how clearly you think, how directly you communicate and how confidently you move people to action — even in uncertainty.‍ ‍

Top 15 Executive coach 4 consecutive years

Meet Lisa

A four-time “Top 15” executive leadership coach, Lisa works with C-suite executives, global leaders, and high-potential talent at pivotal moments of growth and change. Her work focuses on transformational leadership shifts that elevate not only individual performance, but the culture, effectiveness, and well-being of the organizations they lead.

Lisa partners with leaders to elevate performance, clarify bold yet achievable goals, and build the roadmap to reach them. She is known for her work helping leaders decode their leadership energy—how it shows up under pressure, how it’s experienced by others, and how to deliberately calibrate it to strengthen executive presence, leadership voice, expand influence, and drive results. By working with leaders to consciously direct their energy, Lisa helps them lead with greater impact in every room they enter. Her coaching style balances thoughtful challenge with steady support, delivered with clarity and a touch of humor.

Lisa's Credentials

Growth DOESN’T HAPPEN IN THE COMFORT ZONE

Lisa HAS Been in Your Shoes

Having led and advised organizations at the highest levels, Lisa brings a deep, firsthand understanding of the pressures and complexity executives face. As Managing Director of a nationally recognized technology consulting firm, she built, led, and mentored high-performing leaders and teams while navigating enterprise-scale challenges. This experience makes Lisa a trusted and sought-after executive coach, enabling her to translate real-world leadership challenges into practical insight that drives measurable impact.

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WHAT WORKING WITH LISA LOOKS LIKE

Getting from Here to There

In today’s environment, leadership agility is the differentiator. Executive Coaching provides clarity, challenge, and strategic support to help you adapt faster, decide with greater confidence, and lead the kind of organization others want to be a part of. Together you will develop the future-ready leadership your organization depends on.

Strategic Thought Partner

Lisa serves as a confidential sounding board for your most complex challenges - asking the questions that sharpen your thinking, offering direct perspective when you need it, and helping you build the leadership range your next level demands.

Concierge Partnership

By design, Lisa maintains a selective client roster. Every engagement is built around your specific challenges, your organization, and your goals. Support extends beyond scheduled sessions as Lisa is accessible when unexpected situations arise, as they inevitably do.

Holistic Approach

Lisa coaches the whole leader, believing insight and transformation ripple across leadership, teams, organizations, and personal well-being. Her tools and perspectives extend beyond the office, strengthening effectiveness in every interaction—at the board table, with teams, and beyond.

Connect with Lisa

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CLIENTS SERVED
Dell, Yahoo, PepsiCo, ADP, Amtrak, GameStop Corporation, Southwest Airlines, FedEx Office, Sprint, Red Bull, Infosys, Wingstop, Wyndham Worldwide, Make-A-Wish Foundation, McCormick and Company, Alkami Technology, The Howard Hughes Corporation, Trintech, Texas Health Resources, State of California, US Army.

“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be”.

Tom Landry

WAYS TO WORK WITH LISA

  • A focused, confidential partnership designed around your most pressing priorities. Through candid feedback, powerful questions, and practical tools, you’ll think more clearly, act more decisively, and lead with the kind of sustained impact your organizations needs from you.

  • A high intensity session for leaders who are largely on track but ready to sharpen the edge. Clarify a decision. Elevate high-stakes communication. Recalibrate your leadership trajectory. Results you can count on immediately.

  • Build the culture your strategy depends on. Through workshops, interactive exercises, and targeted guidance, your team will align on a shared vision, leverage collective strengths, and develop the trust and communication that turn good teams into exceptional ones.

  • Understand your communication style in precise detail - and learn to adapt it with intention. Know how to delegate, influence, and engage the people around you with greater precision and fine tune your leadership voice for maximum impact.

  • A structured, confidential process that surfaces what your stakeholders actually see - strengths, blind spots, and the patterns shaping your leadership reputation. Interviews with key voices produce a comprehensive report and debrief that informs a clear, and actionable path forward.

  • When the next move matters, precision matters more. Whether you’re pursuing a promotion, navigating a transition, or redefining your trajectory entirely, this engagement delivers a sharp positioning, authentic personal branding, and a concrete plan to move forward with confidence.

Ready to Work Together?

“Executive coaching is a forward-thinking investment in leadership that empowers high-potential individuals to achieve greater success.”

Don’t take my word for it…

  • I’ve worked with Lisa for over five years across multiple promotions and career transitions, and now into another Vice President role overseeing product marketing and analyst relations at a multi-billion dollar data infrastructure company.

    Vice President, Product Marketing

    Hitachi Vantara

  • Having never worked with an Executive Coach I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started working with Lisa. In that relatively short time Lisa brought so much focus, positivity, personal attention, and experience that it had a profound, meaningful impact on me and my career.

    CTO - Global FinTech Company

  • “Working with Lisa was instrumental in my transition from leading a 100 person organization to overseeing a team of more than 1,000. She brought a rare combination of intuitive guidance, deep executive experience, and cutting edge leadership insights that helped me navigate a period of significant professional growth."

    Divisional CIO - $150B Technology Company

  • Lisa has been instrumental in my executive leadership trajectory. I transitioned from a VP position into a Chief Development Officer role and hit the ground running on day one!

    Chief Development Officer, Fast Casual Restaurant Industry

  • There are coaches, and then there are the rare people who fundamentally reshape your world. Lisa is the latter. When we began our work together, I was stuck in patterns I couldn't see and avoiding the very things holding me back. She didn’t just sit back and listen; she leaned in with a firmness that I didn't know I needed. She challenged me to look at the uncomfortable realities of my work and personal life, but she did it with such immense skill and industry wisdom that I always felt supported, never judged.

    Executive Leadership Coach/Founder

  • Lisa is the consummate professional. Her persistence and consistency have been among the most valuable elements of my executive coaching process- Lisa builds a foundation of trust with her clients. Lisa asks the right questions which enable me to make solid decisions.

    Vice President, Make-A-Wish Foundation

  • I've worked with coaches in my career, but I have to say that Lisa has been the best. She was the "game changer".

    Senior Director, Dell Technologies

  • Lisa is a true sponsor for others. She transforms good into great by leveraging her keen forethought, relationship-based coaching and consulting skills. Lisa took inventory of my talents and values and helped me envision future possibilities, even before I saw them myself.

    Fractional COO

  • It is my professional honor to highly recommend Lisa Rubenstein as an Executive Coach. I have been working with Lisa for over 10 years, and throughout that time she has been a trusted advisor, coach, and mentor. Lisa helped me through building organizations at GameStop and transitioning from retail to Novant Health.

    SVP Technology and Leader of People
    Formerly Novant Health and GameStop

  • Lisa brings value in everything she does. Lisa’s multifaceted skills, her true wisdom and insight are beyond price.

    President - Global Manufacturing

  • Lisa’s coaching talents in professional development, leadership effectiveness, and career transition have been on full display during our sessions. Lisa worked with me as my executive coach to raise my game as a leader. She has helped me to see situations through multiple lenses, challenged me to open up with my team, and focus on activities and roles that ignite me.

    Director of Sales and Distribution - Builder of Teams

    Red Bull

  • Lisa has always presented herself with integrity and sound business practice. Lisa has been a great coach and mentor as I have progressed through my career - a great sounding board. She is quick to grasp concepts and ideas and works to develop winning strategies.

    Senior Vice President, Global Technical Operations,

    US Bank

  • When I started a new position leading a larger team, I started working with Lisa as my Executive Coach to help me build and maximize my leadership skills. She employed the Energy Leadership model to help me understand what level I was leading from and how to manage and shift energy as a leader.

    Vice President, Marketing and Customer Engagement

  • Lisa is an amazing person and an incredible coach who was critical to my transition experience. In addition to possessing great intelligence, patience, experience, and communication skills, Lisa has a sincere and completely genuine desire to help others fulfill their potential and see them succeed.

    US Army Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) -Organizational Leadership and Strategy, Chief of Staff, Telecom

  • I’ve been most impressed and impacted by Lisa's ability to intuitively and accurately read people. Unlike many who have such an ability, Lisa goes further and connects with people. Her ability to read and connect is a highly valuable asset that will richly serve anyone seeking a coach or a navigator looking to grow themselves within their chosen field or looking to identify brand new opportunities.

    Digital and Agile Transformation Coach,
    Builder of People who Build Products

  • When I met Lisa, I had a good position with PepsiCo but was feeling under-utilized. Lisa's ability to quickly read my career situation and recognize my potential was invaluable. Through her coaching, I was able to take a close, in-depth look at what was important to me. Together, we laid out clear weekly goals that I could accomplish with my hectic schedule which increasingly built my confidence.

    Director of Trade Marketing, Ferrero Group (Chocolate)

    Formerly with Sanofi, McCormick & Company, PepsiCo

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