Nonprofit leader with 20 years of leadership experience, creative approaches, and consistent results.
Skilled in program management, strategic planning, organizational culture, and technology.
Passionate about  innovation, continuous improvement, and serving others. 

I've once described my job as finding ways of doing new things, finding ways of doing existing things better, finding ways to stop doing things we should not be doing, and finding and nurturing talent along the way.

Daniel Assisi

Fractional executives aren’t a budget hack.
They’re a strategy move.

Not every organization needs a full-time C-suite yet. But plenty of teams need C-suite thinking right now: especially when the stakes are high and the roadmap is fuzzy.

Fractional leadership is powerful because it brings:
• Clear priorities (so you stop chasing “urgent”)
• Faster, better decisions (with real executive pattern recognition)
• A consistent execution cadence (so plans actually turn into results)

And here’s the underrated win: it helps build your leadership pipeline.
A strong fractional exec doesn’t just “do the job”: they coach, mentor, and develop internal leaders so the organization gets stronger long after the engagement.

If you’re scaling a program, navigating change, or need senior-level lift without a full-time hire, fractional can be the smartest next step.

Curious where fractional leadership fits in your org this year? Let’s talk.

Daniel Assisi, Ed.D.

Growing people and programs that change the world | Leadership Consultant | Executive Coach

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🎯 80% of leaders believe their companies excel at crafting strategy, but only 44% actually think they are effective at executing it. (ClearPoint Strategy, 2024)

Sounds familiar? 

Could you use additional assistance in planning your execution? Reach out! 
You don't have to reinvent the wheel, you just have to make it spin... 🛞 

#Execution #strategicplanning

Did you know that while 80% of leaders believe their companies excel at crafting strategy, only 44% actually think they're effective at executing it? 🎯  (Source: ClearPoint Strategy, 2024)

This gap explains why so many promising plans never make it off the page. 

Bridging the strategy–execution divide is a true game-changer for organizations seeking real impact: not just good intentions. The difference? Genuine engagement and accountability. I’m grateful to witness firsthand how Copernicus Solutions steps in, empowering leaders and teams to move vision into action.

Our collaborative approach brings:
• Hands-on support at every phase
• Proven frameworks for sustained follow-through
• A culture of accountability to ensure plans see daylight

Are you ready to close the gap and celebrate outcomes that matter? Let's start a conversation about turning plans into progress. #strategy #leadership #implementation #impact

Our friends at Thrive are hiring. 

This is a unique opportunity to work with a stellar team of people doing amazingly meaningful work and doing it well. 

If you know anyone who may be interested, please share this with them.

🚀 We're Hiring! Join Thrive as Our Next Client Services Associate

Are you passionate about transforming education? Do you love organizing complex projects and working alongside mission-driven educators?

Our team is looking for a Client Services Associate to help us grow our impact by supporting our consulting engagements, leading logistics, and contributing to strategic initiatives that support incredible schools and districts.

💡 Our ideal candidate is someone who is highly organized, values-driven, and excited by the chance to support systems-level change in education.

📝 Please see the attached document for a complete job description and application details.

Let’s reimagine education together.
🔗 To learn more about Thrive, visit our website: http://thriveps.org

#ThriveWithUs #EducationJobs #NowHiring #JoinOurTeam

Job Description: Client Services Associate

Happy Whole Human

In today's economy, a shocking 75% of people feel stuck personally and professionally. The global workforce feels lonely, disconnected, out-of-control. It's hard to stay positive. Relationships suffer, health suffers, and productivity suffers too. We understand how overwhelming it is to want to improve but not have the information, training, or resources to do it. That's why we are helping companies and leaders all across the world to transform their organizations using the Happy Whole Human program. At Happy Whole Human we bring data and humanity together to help executive teams create a more vibrant and productive workforce. Our agile wellness solution uses assessment, coaching, and reassessment to foster meaningful, measurable, and lasting improvements in individual and organizational health in 45 days.

Founder

Lisa Leit, Ph.D., MCC is an expert in the field of developmental psychology, and a Master Certified Coach. Recognized as Top Executive Coach of 2023 and one of 2021 Top Visionaries in Healthcare by the IFAH and Executive Coach of the Year by both Global 500 (2022) and Corporate America Today Magazine (2023), and featured on Yahoo Finance as the 2021 #1 Female Coach in the US, she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and leadership teams of organizations to overcome obstacles and achieve their personalized goals for 18 years. As a coach, Lisa uses both her conventional training and holistic integrative techniques, such as hypnotic coaching, to help individuals, couples, and teams energize their evolution. As a mediator specializing in organizational and family dispute resolution, she offers guidance as people negotiate agreements and reconcile conflicts of interest outside of a courtroom. In high impact executive coaching and management consulting, her unique HWH holistic wellness assessment program identifies and addresses underlying risk factors to health and fosters meaningful, measurable, and lasting results for individuals and teams in 45 days. By facilitating effective communication and providing results-based coaching and management consulting, her validated, research-based holistic wellness assessment program identifies and addresses hidden roadblocks to productivity and profit and unleashes the power of true collaboration. Lisa offers a DIY Happy Whole Human online program, and individual, family, and team coaching. She also mentors and certifies coaches in a program offered by the Happy Whole Human Institute of Holistic Wellness accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), and American Council of Hypnotist Examiners (ACHE).

Coach, Consultant, and Mediator

The Happy Whole Human Institute offers ICF and ACHE-accredited coach certification trainings and offers personalized mentoring for coaches seeking International Coaching Federation certification. Lisa teaches coach trainees both time-tested and cutting-edge tools and techniques, including how to facilitate the validated HWH Self-Assessment program based on Lisa’s doctoral research on interpersonal psychology and at the University of Texas at Austin and work with 2000+ clients and students. Her approach is client-driven and applies key insights from Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, Eco-psychology, Change Management principles, negotiation strategies, and applied neuroscience.

Faculty Director

The University of Texas at Austin

HDF 356: The Evolution of Relationships course reviews the scientific literature on the evolution and function of adult romantic relationships and provides students with both a theoretical and practical grounding in the steps necessary to achieving personal wholeness and functional interdependence.

RHE 306: Rhetoric and Writing course is designed to introduce the fundamental principles of critical analysis and effective argumentation. 
 
RHE 309K: Science Writing course designed to complement the core curriculum of scholars in the College of Natural Science.

Visiting Professor

Oversaw the day to day operations of this undergraduate writing center employing 90+ students and serving over 11,000 students per year.

Undergraduate Writing Center Coordinator

Professional certified mediator to people referred to the clinic by small claims courts throughout the Austin area and cases from other courts and non-profit entities, using skills gained from completion of a 40-hour certification program in dispute resolution techniques (Law 381S) that complies with Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 154.052(a).

Mediator-UT Austin School of Law Mediation Clinic

The Academy for Conscious Leadership - Whole Foods Market

The Academy for Conscious Leadership prepares leaders to lead from a place of service by guiding them through experiences that identify their higher purpose and create cultures of meaning.  To do this, a faculty comprised of Whole Foods Market Team Members, thought leaders and fellow travelers exposes participants to ideas that challenge their perspectives, allowing them to consider a new reality.

Faculty Member

Hogg Foundation for Mental Health-UT Austin

Writing and editorial consultant for newsletter, grants, journal articles, and proposals.

Writing and Editorial Consultant

The Bavarian Lodge and Restaurant

Guest services for this extraordinary European-style high-altitude retreat.  Sometimes donning the requisite dirndl, worked with the Bavarian team to provide a personalized brand of hospitality that allowed guests to feel that they were arriving among friends in this award-winning luxurious ski alm in Northern New Mexico.

Guest Services

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLC

Office Manager (2000) and Executive Assistant (1998-99) at this international law firm specializing in Corporate Finance, Intellectual Property, Competition and Trade with over 2000 attorneys in 32 offices.

Office Manager

Teach For America

English, history, and journalism teacher serving 6th and 8th grade students in a rural community in the Rio Grande Valley.

Middle School Teacher

Founder, Happy Whole Human

For more than 20 years I have enjoyed working as a coach and mediator and as a trainer and educator. During these two decades, my focus has been specifically geared towards using evidence-based practices to guide people, from business executives to close-knit families, towards attaining their own definitions of personal and professional success. 

My skill set not only includes devising overarching coaching techniques that help address previously hidden risk factors and roadblocks but also finding ways to improve agile team collaboration so entire work cultures are transformed into environments teeming with positive morale. Inclusion and diversity are cornerstones of my work so that all in my care benefit from the resources available, regardless of race or cultural background. 

Over the years I have worked with fellow business leaders, staff, and coaches to sustain a broad series of initiatives that provide prospective and existing clients with the support required for addressing their perceived shortcomings. My record of success shows how I have been a consistent advocate and ally in introducing new ways of thinking that lead others through all phases of a journey taking them into a mindset of sharper focus and increased clarity. 

I use my holistic approach to help new clients elevate the chances they have to meet their maximum potential.

Dr. Lisa Leit, MCC

🚨 Starting Next Week | Evening Hours for Working Professionals 🚨
If you’ve been wanting to begin your ICF-aligned coach training but daytime classes haven’t worked with your schedule, this is for you.
Our 60-Hour Level 1 Coach Certification is starting next week with evening-friendly sessions, designed specifically for professionals who are balancing work, life, and growth.

✨ What makes this program different:
ICF Level 1–aligned pathway (ACC-ready)
Evening hours for U.S.-based working professionals
Live, highly interactive training (not passive lectures)
MCC-level mentoring
Structured frameworks you can actually use with clients immediately
Whether you’re:
• Expanding your leadership toolkit
• Transitioning into coaching
• Deepening your professional presence
• Or formalizing skills you already use
This program meets you where you are—and moves you forward with clarity and rigor.
Learn more + enroll here:
https://lnkd.in/er5vp5d5
We begin next week. If you’ve been waiting for the right timing, this may be it.
#CoachTraining #ICFCoaching #LeadershipDevelopment #ExecutiveCoaching #CareerGrowth #WorkingProfessionals #EveningClasses

https://lnkd.in/er5vp5d5

Lindsay DelGrosso, ACC, MBA, PMP Mikah Calingo

Dr. Lisa Leit

Founder & CEO, Happy Whole Human® | Human Systems Intelligence™ | ICF MCC

Open article: 60-hr Level One Coach Certification | Happy Whole Human by happywholehuman.com

60-hr Level One Coach Certification | Happy Whole Human

🚀 Last Call: HWH Level 1 Coach Training Starts Next Week! 🚀
If you’re serious about elevating your coaching impact — and earning ICF credentials with MCC-level mentoring — this is your moment.

Our Happy Whole Human Level 1 Coach Training is designed for coaches who want more than a certificate — you want transformation:

✨ Deep coaching mastery with real-world application
✨ MCC-level ICF mentoring built into the program
✨ Skills you can use immediately with clients
✨ A supportive community of experienced practitioners
✨ Clear pathways to credentialing and professional growth

This cohort begins next week, so enroll now!

Whether you’re building a private practice, leading teams, or guiding leaders — this training will sharpen your edge and expand your confidence.

👉 Enroll today: https://lnkd.in/eUNafv7w

Let’s level up — together. 🌟
#Coaching #ICF #LeadershipDevelopment #ProfessionalGrowth #CoachTraining #MCCMentoring
Lindsay DelGrosso, ACC, MBA, PMP Mikah Calingo

Open article: 60-hr Level One Coach Certification by happywholehuman.com

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