Voice of My Clients

Lisa is an engaging leader who has impeccable focus on career development for those she manages and coaches. I had the opportunity to work with and for Lisa at HP. I was in the beginning stages of my management career, and she was absolutely pivotal to the growth I have personally experienced. She coached me on a continual basis and opened up opportunities for me to gain senior executive visibility. The doors she opened got me to where I am today, which is in a director level role with foreseeable continued upwards mobility. Her guidance and insights are founded via her own personal career experience, which provides a solid foundation for any individual coaching with her.

I was first drawn to work with Lisa Foulger when I met her leading a CINDE workshop on Appreciative Inquiry in Innovation in Costa Rica. We discussed the idea of intrapreneurship (corporate personnel thinking and acting like an entrepreneur in their roles) and I saw how this would fit well with our culture at P&G. I loved the concept of the Online Entrepreneurial Sprint-a “multi-tool” learning program, and we agreed to run a pilot. The experience of working with them was fantastic – she was way faster and more agile than other training providers, constantly listening to us, adapting and experimenting. I suppose I should have expected that from an entrepreneurial partnership! The pace was balanced by pragmatism and a focus on impact. She went to great lengths to collect insight into what was working and how we could embed new practices,

Lisa was my coach through a leadership development program sponsored by one of my previous employers. From the initial engagement and throughout the entire coaching program, Lisa demonstrated the value of her experience, insights and business acumen.

Lisa has the ability to guide you to reach clarity, alignment and purpose. Her impressive toolkit is a true differentiator: Lisa will adapt her approach and methodology to help you identify your strengths and inner saboteurs, think through and set realistic goals, and deploy the necessary tactics to materialize your plans in mutually beneficial partnerships.

Whether you have reached a plateau in your current job, working on a promotion, planning to implement a leadership development or mentorship program, looking for guidance to be a better manager, or in need of sound career advice, Lisa is the qualified and effective growth coach you will want to work with.

I met Lisa through a coaching session for an entrepreneurship program in Puerto Rico, Scale Up of Guayacan Foundation, this year in July. Lisa became my direct coach in the program providing amazing support and insight into basic organizational structure, and processes to accelerate growth focusing on the next 3-year plan. She also is the coach on how to create a business pitch for funding opportunities. She is a great resource for her experience. I really like her holistic approach to business-related situations. Definitely, a great resource to have.

Participating in the Results & Engagement in Authentic Leadership Women’s leadership (REAL) group coaching program delivered by Lisa Foulger, was a transformative experience that exceeded all my expectations. The program’s focus on planning the future and creating what I desired helped me gain clarity and set ambitious goals for my career. The supportive and empowering environment, coupled with expert coaching, pushed me to stretch beyond my comfort zone and embrace new challenges. The network of incredible women I connected with during the program continues to inspire and support me to this day. Thanks to REAL, I had the courage to pursue an international assignment. The program equipped me with the necessary skills, confidence, and network to make it a reality. I highly recommend the REAL coaching program to any woman seeking to unlock her full potential, enhance her leadership capabilities, and make a lasting impact in her professional life. The REAL program is a game-changer, empowering women to be their authentic selves, achieve measurable results, and create the careers they desire. If you’re ready to take bold action, expand your professional network, and join a community of inspiring women, look no further than Lisa’s coaching program.

Lisa is a great resource. While participating with LaVANda Holistic Clinic at EnterPRize, her coaching on mindset has been key throughout the program. There are so many aspects to entrepreneurship, and we were able to go through elements that bring us closer to moving forward while learning how to recognize things that may keep us from growing. We keep implementing tools that Lisa shared with us, and hope to work together again in the future.

Lisa has great Entrepreneurial business knowledge and Coach expertise; it was really great coaching with her towards the understanding of my small business needs and my personal development as a leader. I would recommend Lisa if you are looking for a leadership coach to help you grow yourself and your business non-stop!

I had the privilege of collaborating with Lisa, and her profound expertise played an instrumental role in reshaping my entrepreneurial mindset. Her invaluable guidance empowered me to reframe my approach, enabling me to strategically harness my skills and capitalize on business prospects by translating them into practical, actionable measures for effective negotiation and stakeholder engagement. Without reservation, I endorse Lisa’s professional services to individuals seeking to enhance their soft skills, mindset, and negotiation acumen.

Worked with Lisa both on an organizational and individual level consulting our business. Our time working together always left me feeling I had learned more about myself, and in turn made me a better leader. She helped us dive deeper into scaling up to develop our OPSP, 7 Strata, and really focus on our or core business and core customer. I appreciated Lisa’s ability to listen and cut through the noise to ask good questions and work on getting us to a solve. She would also challenge our conventional thinking and paths and help us think outside those to really solidify our paradigms or break through them to ensure we are doing what is best for our employees, customers and the organization. I would recommend Lisa to anyone who is looking to be challenged to become a better leader and really figure out what needs to change to get your business to the next level.

I highly recommend Lisa, because she is skillful in coaching you to unfold your inner intuition. By using the PQ program, she is able to guide you step by step in overcoming possible mental limitations that you may be experimenting with and bringing out your best version. Whether you want to take your current business to the next level or are looking for a fresh start she is the person to go to.

I highly recommend Lisa as a coach and collaborator. Working with Lisa has opened up new business opportunities and encouraged my team to look at things differently sparking new growth. For those wanting to think strategically, looking to pivot, and/or build new partnerships, I encourage engaging with Lisa and her services.

Over the past three decades, I have advised over 150 senior marketing leaders and CEOs leading top brand. Know what has typically stopped me from getting promoted, finishing writing my books, or launching new CMO coaching programs?
One thing: my inner saboteur.
Lisa taught me the power of Positive Intelligence. She is not only certified in Shirzad Chamine’s research-rich methodology. She LIVES the process. It’s evident in how she runs her business, how she coaches, and how she has designed her life.
With her coaching and guidance, I stopped spending HOURS–sometimes DAYS–swimming in negative thoughts and self-sabotage.
Making the shift from “saboteur” to “sage” is possible when you have the courage and the weekly coaching.
I would recommend Lisa to every successful leader who catches themselves in an eddy of negative self-talk, judgment, anger, or impatience–and is ready to create a career guided by empathy, insight, innovation, and joy.
Life is too short to let our judge run the show!

Lisa has been a huge part of our success these past few years since we began working with her as a Scaling Up coach. She has provided countless instances of support from guidance on key strategic issues to helping me with preparing for difficult conversations. She is an invaluable partner that I could not recommend more strongly.

You won’t scale your team, your business unit, your organization and ultimately your impact unless you grow your people. By working with Lisa, we were able to shift the mindset within the team. They helped us “create a sense of exponential and global mindset.”

I’m worked with Lisa as an Executive coach and found her style pragmatic and supportive to my finding solutions that allowed me to grow as an individual and leader, building professional and life skills that will last forever. Lisa is organized, a great listener and genuinely takes interest in her clients. I would recommend Lisa to anyone looking for a coach to develop their leadership style and capabilities.

Lisa is an exceptional coach and thought-provoking business leader that is well-connected on both the Costa Rican business and the not for profit world. Although she is a truly global coach, being American, having had a 25-year career at HP and having lived in Costa Rica since 2007 makes her exceptional at identifying cultural barriers for successfully conducting business. Since Lisa was assigned as my coach, I have found in her a sounding board for exploring alternatives and assessing consequences, but more importantly, further developing myself during the process. I am amazed at how she can absorb so many details from our coaching sessions, synthesizing the bigger picture and more importantly have me see clearly through all that. Lisa is also an exceptional communicator. She has helped me to hone more objective aspects such as messaging and content for several key stakeholder presentations; and more subjective ones, but not less important, such as executive presence. For me personally, I have benefited from our interactions in much more than just the professional space. It has given me a new meaning to my work and the need to help others become the better version of themselves. It has also provided more clarity to what I want, both personally and professionally, and for that I thank her enormously.

We’ve hired Scaling Up coaches for @imiloainstitute and @lifestyle.perfected. These coaches have made a big difference in Imiloa exceeding our goals by 20% in our first year, breaking 7 figures in revenue, 80% into the first year. This coach is one of the best, Lisa Foulger, expert in her specialized aspects of creating and nurturing a high-impact company – and the individuals who build them.

Right away, I noticed that my left brain with all its judgment, worry, fear, rumination, etc.. was completely silenced and had zero effect on me. In place of the hyper-active left brain and all its chatter, I felt a switch into the calm and tranquility of the right brain which allowed me to focus, create, innovate and take on challenges that I had previously avoided.

Now 7 weeks into my disciplined PQ practice, I continue with a calm tranquility and peace of mind to navigate the many challenges that I continue to face. I feel empowered to be and do what I most desire with a renewed sense of energy and confidence. The few times that I felt the left brain trying to revert to negative thinking patterns, a handful of PQ reps got me back fully in the empowered flow of the right brain.

I’m deeply indebted to Lisa for introducing me and guiding me in the PQ program.

My adult daughter has also embarked upon the PQ journey and also found the same wonderful results and is now teaching her Children to give them a jump on life.

I recommend Lisa without reservation to any of the works she is highly certified in!

Lisa introduced me to the PQ journey, and what an eye-opening experience! I’ve been a student of personal and professional development for many years, and I found the PQ journey to be a refreshing and effective method of learning how to identify, assess, and manage those things that get in the way of achieving my goals (my saboteurs). The accompanying app is excellent.

The real value of this method was the weekly check-ins with Lisa. She helped me uncover deeper insights that became the catalyst for applying these learnings, both personally and professionally. Her coaching accelerated my desired PQ outcomes!

I highly recommend Lisa if you want to accelerate your success on your PQ journey.

The way in which the coaching brought me to a place of alignment was slowly over time through both data and intuition. It started to enable me to speak my truth in relationship to areas that were still shadows for me. Things that I couldn’t see were in what I think of as shadows. I was so wound up on what other people were telling me that I was not trusting my own voice and intuition. Speaking my truth was really hard and that had to be done over the course of our multi-year coaching engagement. The consistency of the coaching allowed me to explore that after I was able to deal with some unhealthy co-founder dynamics. Coaching supported me in gaining clarity on defining my CEO role. I chose to be a CEO of the people and to be focused on sales and marketing. Therefore, I was going to have to understand finance & operations and learn to let go of what I couldn’t control.

The freedom that I am now experiencing is kind of interesting to me. The fact that I can be away for 3–4 months, open the 2nd Imiloa retreat location, create a new program & revenue stream while the company is running itself day-to-day is mind-blowing. I have less of the “old shoes going to drop” and more of a “I want to stand tall”, I want to be able to “do right” by all those who have done so well by me including the team, the stakeholders and all of that. My belief systems have shifted. The space that the coaching provided to be able to explore these things was beneficial in my personal & professional growth.

Lisa is a seasoned consulting professional, and experienced operating executive. I have worked with her over the past 20 years, and I can vouch for both her results and approach.

Her coaching and consulting were significant components of our hyper growth ($0 to $100m.)
A key component to such growth was attracting, developing, and retaining talent. The team grew from 4 to 350 people, with 18 leaders. Lisa’s role in developing and executing “Leadership Circles” was key in getting the team operational. I often heard, both from managers and individual contributors, that she is a neutral, objective and safe place to share vulnerability, challenges and desires. As importantly – she helps them stretch outside their comfort zones and get results that they never thought were in reach.
I encourage you to chat with her about ideas and methods for developing both high potential employees (getting them ready for their next role), and making high performing teams even better.

The freedom that I am now experiencing is kind of interesting to me. The fact that I can be away for 3–4 months, open the 2nd Imiloa retreat location, create a new program & revenue stream while the company is running itself day-to-day is mind-blowing. I have less of the “old shoes going to drop” and more of a “I want to stand tall”, I want to be able to “do right” by all those who have done so well by me including the team, the stakeholders and all of that. My belief systems have shifted. The space that the coaching provided to be able to explore these things was beneficial in my personal & professional growth.