Lisa O'Neill is a force of nature who has spent over twenty years helping people and organisations transform through her unique combination of straight-talking wisdom and infectious humour. Raised in small-town New Zealand, Lisa brings a rare authenticity that allows her to connect with everyone from CEOs to frontline staff, delivering hard-hitting messages in ways that crack people open to possibility.
After working across multiple industries and raising four children (three with Type 1 diabetes), Lisa intimately understands the challenges of modern life and leadership. She's authored seven books including "Everything You Want" and "The Lickable Third", reaching tens of thousands through her writing, speaking and coaching. Major organisations like Ray White, Foodstuffs NI, and L'Oreal trust Lisa to energise their teams and transform their cultures. Whether speaking to audiences of 50 or 5000, she consistently ranks as the highest-rated speaker at conferences across Australia and New Zealand.
Lisa specialises in helping organisations tackle their biggest challenges around energy, leadership, sales and customer experience. Her approach combines hilarious storytelling with profound insights, delivering practical strategies that create immediate results. Clients report significant improvements in team engagement, customer satisfaction and leadership capability after working with Lisa. Her expertise spans industries including real estate, education, healthcare, retail and financial services.
What sets Lisa apart is her ability to make transformation feel both possible and fun. She's been called a "human Berocca" for her energising presence, and "emotionally nutritious" for her ability to nourish both hearts and minds. Through her speaking, books, and programs, Lisa empowers people to stop making excuses and start living magnificent lives. Her message is simple but profound: with the right energy, belief and action, you can have everything you want.
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”Energy is Your Edge”
Are your people exhausted? Overwhelmed and struggling to keep up?”Energy is Your Edge”
Understanding your energy and how it directly impacts business performance is vital for everyone. Our energy is everything.
Drawing from 25 years of energy mastery and business transformation, Lisa reveals the hidden power of energetic intelligence. This is not about work-life balance, its about creating sustainable success by taking responsibility for your energy. Through vivid storytelling and humorous insights, Lisa shows leaders how to increase and protect their energy.
“In a busy world where we are all pulled in many directions we need to to maximise our impact by being aware of how and where our energy is used”
Perfect for organisations ready to move beyond traditional performance metrics to unlock their teams' full vital potential.
"Taking Responsibility: The ability to respond"
Do you want to create an environment where both profits and people thrive?"Taking Responsibility: The ability to respond"
Learn to identify what we need and want to control, what stops us from taking action and how to build organisational trust.
Inspiring leaders, teams and organisations to step into their potential while driving business results Lisa demonstrates how to blend authenticity and achievement. Integrating our needs as humans with the demands of work. Through her signature six foundations framework, Lisa teaches how developing your whole self is actually your biggest competitive advantage. Having worked with thousands of leaders, this keynote ignites the courage to lead from within while delivering exceptional organisational outcomes.
"The Business of Experience"
How do you transform ordinary business interactions into extraordinary experiences? "The Business of Experience"
In an automated world, experience design is the new currency of business success. Staff engagement and retention, customer experience and loyalty need to be real priorities for organisations.
Drawing from her 20 years in sales and service excellence, Lisa revolutionises how organisations think about experience design and shows you how to build “Experience Equity”. Learn the art of creating meaningful connections at every business touchpoint. Understand the experience of your customer, your staff, your product and YOU. Create unforgettable business impact through conscious care.
“A commitment to care is the currency that all business owners need to invest in.”
Ideal for companies ready to move beyond satisfaction to create true lasting impact.
“Leading Yourself to Lead Others”
For organisations ready to develop leaders who don't just manage teams but inspire movements. Making the shift from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ is the important step into intentional leadership. Lisa brings her decades of leadership experience to illuminate how true presence goes far beyond personality. Ownership and awareness are the leadership keys to being a leader worth following. Learn to balance visibility with vulnerability, authority with authenticity and personal growth with professional results. Show up as a leader who makes impact impossible to ignore.
“Leading Yourself to Lead Others”
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