About LISA
Fortune 500 operator. Founder of True Self™ Leadership.
Lisa Petrilli has led inside the boardroom and done the work beneath it.
She brings both to every leader she advises.
I know this world because I led in it.
For decades, I lived the career most leaders are told to want. I held full P&L responsibility for a $750 million business unit. I spoke at the United Nations in Geneva. I earned the credentials and the recognition that the corporate world offers.
I also lived the other side. I discovered that an organization I had given everything to was not what it appeared to be. And later came the quietest low of all: sitting in a role that looked impressive from the outside, knowing I was there only for the paycheck. The work that had once lit me up had become something I endured.
I know what it costs to keep performing when your heart has gone quiet.
The turning point
Eventually I saw, with complete clarity, that what was driving my decisions was not strategy. It was conditioning: patterns, fears, and beliefs formed long before I ever walked into a boardroom. Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it. And everything my career had taught me suddenly made sense as preparation.
The fifteen years of rigorous work that followed changed not just how I lead, but who I am. That work became True Self Leadership. It is what I now bring to executives and the organizations that depend on them.
Most of the leaders I work with don’t need more capability. They need access to the leader beneath the performance. That is the work.
Track Record
OPERATOR
- Full P&L responsibility for a $750 million Fortune 500 healthcare business unit
- Founded the healthcare industry’s first corporate-owned executive leadership institute
- Chief Relationship Officer to 250+ mid-market CEOs at CEO Connection
- Led events that retained $9 billion in revenue
RECOGNITION
- #11 on Forbes’ list of top CMOs based on social influence
- Named to Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers
- Named one of HuffPost’s Top 100 People to Follow on Twitter
- Work recognized in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal; featured in The New York Times and Time
GLOBAL PLATFORM
- Speaker, United Nations, Geneva
- Keynote Speaker, University of Notre Dame
- Speaker, U.S. Naval Academy
- MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Certified Executive Coach
- Author, The Introvert’s Guide to Success in Business and Leadership
- Author, Life Quest
Stages and boardrooms include
Let’s talk about where you are.
A private, confidential conversation. No pitch and no agenda. Just an honest look at what’s working, what isn’t, and what could be possible from here.