About Lisa Kimball

Lisa Kimball has worked for more than 25 years with clients including government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions to design and facilitate organizational change and development efforts. Much of her work has been around designing meaningful ways to engage stakeholders in significant organizational processes. Lisa is certified as a professional facilitator and has deep experience using a wide range of engagement processes including Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry, and Dialogue. For the past three years she has been working with hospitals and health care facilities applying Positive Deviance methodology to the problem of eliminating transmission of hospital acquired “superbug” infections. She has trained PD consultants and coaches as well as designed and developed materials to support hospital teams to use and train others to use PD methods.

Previously, Lisa was part of the team at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management that designed selection, training, and development programs for members of the Senior Executive Service. She later served as President of The Professional Managers Association in Washington, DC working on projects to introduce new leadership and management techniques to the federal management community.

Lisa is on the Board of the Organization Development Network and Plexus Institute, a non-profit focused on applying ideas from complexity science to solve social and organizational problems. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology; Cognition & Learning from Catholic University of America where her research focused on problem solving strategies of senior executives in complex systems.