Lisa teaches Leadership, Lean Systems, and Strategic Management. She has facilitated over 175 student team experiential lean projects and over 225 service leadership focused projects, partnering with both profit and non-profit organizations through her Lean Systems and Leadership courses. Her teaching focuses on equipping students with the essential tools and skill sets needed to navigate the diverse challenges of the modern workplace.

Before joining FSU, Lisa worked at Ford Motor Company and Visteon Corporation for 13 years. In these roles, she served as a process improvement coach, project manager, and senior manufacturing engineer, implementing lean principles to boost productivity and profitability in both office and manufacturing settings through targeted process improvement initiatives.

Lisa’s research and writing interests explore case based research with implementing lean systems, leadership, and strategy within service and manufacturing organizations. Lisa has been a member of the Editorial Board for the Case Research Journal (CRJ) since 2016. She has also been an active member of the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) since 2009. Lisa has developed and presented cases at several NACRA conferences, published cases in the CRJ and served as the NACRA Vice President of Communications and Digital Technologies and Operations track chair.