Hi, I'm Lisa
A Bit About Me...
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I am a former management consultant and corporate attorney whose passion is to develop spiky balls.
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"Spiky Ball" (noun) A person who is well-rounded but has at least one talent or characteristic which makes the individual stand out from a crowd.
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Growing up on the East Coast, I attended an all-girls private high school, before attending Princeton University. After graduating, I spent a semester working in the Admissions Office at Princeton where the Dean of Admissions once described his ideal class of undergraduates as "spiky balls."
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At the time, I thought this was nothing more than a clever metaphor. Having spent the last 15 years in the corporate world, working as both a management consultant for Accenture in NYC, then as a corporate attorney at top-tier US law firms in the US, Hong Kong and Singapore, I understand how the "spiky ball" metaphor applies to anyone at the top of their game - whether they are students or professionals.
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My Early Career
While it seems like I checked all of the right boxes - Ivy League graduate, management consultant, competitive law school, international law firms, global work experience - my professional career didn't start off quite so rosy. On my first day of my consulting job, I was directed to write some code using Java...by the end of the day! As a fresh anthropology major from Princeton, the only Java I knew was a place in Indonesia well-known for its coffee production. To say I was a fish out of water was an understatement.
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I can still remember the feeling of absolute fright and dread on that day and many more days since, as both a young consultant and attorney, when I felt like a complete fraud because I had no idea what to do, who to ask for help and was generally afraid to appear stupid (my so-called elite education was not enough). For some reason, the corporate world expects young professionals to just know or figure out how to do things without any context or guidance, as though it were a rite of passage. As a result, so many young people never get to develop their talents and passions because they get lost, bored, discouraged or lose passion along the way.
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I vowed early on in my career that I would work to make things more transparent for the next generation of young professionals. Over my years in the corporate world, I have helped mentor and train countless junior staff so that they could get past the unnecessarily confusing and harrowing experiences and develop into the best versions of themselves.
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It doesn't need to be so frustrating or enigmatic.
LET'S GET STARTED!
How It All Started
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I founded LP3 Coaching while on a leave of absence from my job as a Big Law corporate attorney. I was asked to help out a (desperate) parent whose 16 year old son had failed all 10 GCSE mock exams. He had received the dreaded letter from his British boarding school saying he would be kicked out the following term if he didn’t receive at least 5 B’s on his official GCSEs the next month.
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I naturally went into my lawyer problem-solving mode, first by quickly identifying the issue - in this case, not his IQ or even his mastery of the material, as everyone around him believed. Instead, it was a confidence issue - he had given up on himself, as had his teachers, and he no longer believed he could succeed academically. On-the-spot, I created a week-long bootcamp which would reboot him - mind, body and soul - morning runs, meal planning, coaching sessions, study skills and exam techniques, and confidence building. The student ended up getting 5 A's and 5 B's.
Although it started out as a favor, working with this student impacted me significantly. It made me realize that I have a passion for, and was quite effective at, guiding and mentoring young people during challenging moments of their life.
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If you think LP3 Coaching can help you or your child, please contact us for a free consultation!