Alisha De Lorenzo: Culture Speaker

    Corporate culture keynote speaker Alisha De Lorenzo helps organizations solve complex challenges through Positive Deviance, unlocking hidden innovation, engagement, and high-performance leadership.

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    • Highlights:
      • Expert in the Positive Deviance framework
      • Transformed public education systems across New Jersey
      • Corporate keynote speaker on culture and leadership
      • High-performance coach and former educator
    • Formats: Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator on Corporate Culture, Positive Deviance, and Organizational Transformation
    • Audiences: Executive leaders, HR teams, change management professionals, education leaders, and organizations seeking sustainable culture transformation and innovation.
    • Outcomes:
      1. Clear framework for uncovering hidden internal solutions
      2. Increased engagement and reduced burnout
      3. Stronger culture built on agency, innovation, and shared ownership
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    • Travels from: Various Cities
    • **Fee range: $10,000 - $15,000

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    Keynote Topics:

    The way to fight overwhelm, burnout and disengagement isn’t simply less work. In fact, it’s by unleashing the next level of aliveness in your people. Thriving in today’s uncertain and demanding workforce requires us to unlock the life-giving tools of human connection, authenticity, agency and collective-efficacy that drive organizational success. Only then will more people feel free to bring their diverse, edgy, future forward practices to the forefront — and do so in ways that lead us all to take responsibility for creating conditions where everyone thrives. 

    Leave inspired, equipped with actionable insights, and ready to empower an overwhelmed and underperforming workforce to infuse creativity and aliveness back into their work and amplify more of what you truly value. 

    KEY AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS: 

    • A framework for increasing employee engagement, productivity and attachment to the organization 
    • Build a culture of aliveness that drives innovation, creativity, collaboration and growth ● 4 steps to unleash aliveness in you and your teams 
    • Strategies for uncovering shared problems and discovering solutions hidden in plain sight 
    • Compelling case studies that lead to remarkable outcomes 

    We think solutions are found on the outside when what we really need to do is discover them from within. So, here’s the question: What if the answers to the challenges you face are already alive within your organization… just waiting to be discovered? 

    Now more than ever, organizations face a tyranny of disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change and ineffective leadership strategies. With staggering statistics that 43% of employees feel invisible and over 20% of people feel miserable at work, every leader needs the tools to challenge conventional thinking and make way for new behaviors and mindsets to emerge by turning to positive disruption. 

    Positive disruption points to the pockets of outlier practices otherwise quelled by the conditioned, cultural norms of the business — those that, once discovered, lead to remarkable outcomes. 

    When leaders are invested in discovering solutions, the prospect of a new reality can appear. Together, we’ll unleash the next level of aliveness in your people by discovering the positive disruption in your midst. 

    KEY AUDIENCE TAKEAWAYS: 

    • A framework for moving employees from disengaged to corporate ambassadors ● 4 steps to discover and scale solutions that are hidden in plain sight 
    • Strategies for effective leadership that unlocks differentiation, growth and high-performance 
    • Shift your vision from looking at the problems to discovering the solutions ● Galvanize your teams to take action now.

    Talent Short Bio

    Alisha De Lorenzo is a corporate culture strategist, keynote speaker, and high-performance coach known for helping organizations solve complex, deeply rooted challenges using the Positive Deviance approach. With more than 20 years of experience spanning education, therapy, executive coaching, and leadership development, she equips leaders to uncover and scale solutions that already exist within their teams.

    Her journey began in public education, where she was tasked with transforming a failing school district’s culture and performance. Rather than applying traditional top-down change management strategies, Alisha leaned into Positive Deviance, a framework grounded in one core belief: within every organization, there are individuals whose unconventional practices are already producing exceptional results despite facing the same constraints as others.

    By identifying and amplifying these outlier behaviors, she helped catalyze systemic improvement across New Jersey’s education system. Her success led to invitations from corporate leaders seeking solutions to toxic work cultures, burnout, disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change, and ineffective leadership.

    Over 15 years ago, working in public education, Alisha De Lorenzo was charged with helping her failing school district improve culture and performance. A challenge that would pave the way for her to guide industries, organizations and individuals to solve seemingly intractable problems through a deceptively simple approach – Positive Deviance, which stands on one belief, in every organization there are people whose outlier practices are generating remarkable outcomes despite facing the same barriers and obstacles as everyone else.

    With their innovative ways living outside of the conditioned, cultural norms of the community, their solutions remain hidden in plain sight. 

    After years of experiencing burnout and the isolation that comes from challenging conventional thinking, Alisha De Lorenzo recalls the feelings of hope and aliveness that came from being given the agency to discover and scale the solutions that mattered most. This changed EVERYTHING about how she viewed problems, their solutions and how to engage people in a way that brings them alive. 

    While Alisha’s efforts went on to transform the system of education across NJ, her influence began to spread across industries. In 2019 she was invited to speak to corporate audiences to help address the toxic work cultures, escalating mental health issues, disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change and ineffective leadership strategies that were plaguing companies. 

    Leaning on more than 20 years of combined experience as a speaker, high-performance coach, educator and therapist, Alisha shares a proven framework to help leaders uncover and scale positive disruption. 

    Alisha De Lorenzo riveting keynote speeches and workshops provide the tools and frameworks to help teams infuse aliveness back into their work, revolutionize corporate culture and amplify the solutions.

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