Lisa Gable

Lisa Gable, CEO, former US Ambassador, UN Delegate, and author of Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Turnaround – How to Change Course When Things Are Going South. Lisa is recognized worldwide as a turnaround mastermind and innovative businesswoman. For more than 30 years, she has been called to turnaround failing organizations—businesses, teams, nonprofits, political campaigns, and government projects—and solve seemingly intractable problems. Over time, Lisa has learned the key to course-correct when things go South is applying the discipline of process engineering—carefully reevaluating everything your organization does and how it does it—with diplomacy and humanity, taking care of relationships and forging strong partnerships.

Lisa Gable is an opinion columnist and a member of the External Advisory Board (EAB) for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow her on LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation

CEO Insider

The Value of Showing Up and Following Through

Lisa GableCEO Insider

Great leaders know that the first step in building relationships and resolving conflict is sitting down to listen to the point of view of someone with whom you may not want to agree. A self-confident leader is willing to engage in those moments – showing up when you say you...

C-Suite Challengers

Business’s Best Recession Bet: A Mid-Career Professional Woman

Lisa GableC-Suite Challengers

My friends, you have finally arrived. You are a woman with 30 years of experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, sizable teams, and a track record of solid ROI. Your proof points are a resume writer’s dream. While others are planning their exits and retirements, you are planning your next step. Yet,...

Game Changer

It’s Time for Critical Thinking About Critical Health

Lisa GableGame Changer

Imagine that you are an executive in the fast-moving, exciting hi-tech sector. The same day your start-up receives venture capital funds, you are on the operating table having a malignant tumor removed and diagnosed with two rare autoimmune diseases. The procedures and treatments that ensue have more unintended consequences which...

CEO Insider

Prescriptive Policies Undermine the Freedom to Innovate

Lisa GableCEO Insider

Chile’s recent rejection of a new constitution highlights that democracies do not want to be micromanaged. Chile’s proposed constitution included 388 articles outlined in 170 pages enshrining a series of prescriptive rules as the law of the land. Luckily, the people of Chile soundly voted it down. Passage would have...

Business Transformation

Beware of Modern-Day Witch Hunts

Lisa GableBusiness Transformation

Washington power broker Bob Barnett gave me an important piece of advice, “Every day a witch is burned in Washington, and you don’t want to be the witch.” Or as my father taught me, in every action you take you should always prepare yourself for inspection and inquiry. Today’s political environment...

Future of Work

Irrational Regulation: An Underlying Cause of Our Economic Woes

Lisa GableFuture of Work

Today, there are game changing advances in semiconductor design and climate technologies. Leading entrepreneurs have bold ideas. Household names like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and rising stars like NuScale and Last Energy are stepping forward with solutions to big problems. And yet, Washington seems intent on passing legislation and...

CEO Insider

The Middle Ground Between Milton Friedman and ESG Standards

Lisa GableCEO Insider

Inflation, regulation, and supply chain shortages make it difficult for companies to compete while operating at the intersection of ESG and corporate stewardship. Sometimes, I visualize corporate board members playing the game Twister as they attempt to avoid collapse while managing rules which can have unintended consequences. Milton Friedman’s essay,...

CEO Insights

Let’s Change the Narrative on Retirement

Lisa GableCEO Insights

Corporate America is at an inflection point as we watch the greatest reshuffling of workforce assumptions since World War II. The women who were part of the wartime economy refused to go back to their pre-war roles after V-Day. Just as women helped accelerate the economic boom of the 1950s,...

CEO Insider

A New Frontier of Work-Life Flexibility

Lisa GableCEO Insider

The pandemic reignited the debate surrounding the need for society to visualize a new world of work. Empathy for people’s exhaustion is driving C-suite discussions on alternatives to the five-day, 40+-hour week. In response, the California state legislature which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy introduced legislation that would mandate a...

Critical thinking

Democracy is Required for Business to Thrive

Lisa GableCritical thinking

On February 24, the world received a sobering wake-up call as Russia invaded Ukraine, a free and democratic country. We are at an inflection point watching the decline of the age of prosperity which was fueled for 30 years by the post-Cold War business expansion. Since 1989, multinational companies have...

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Lisa Gable

The Value of Showing Up and Following Through

Business’s Best Recession Bet: A Mid-Career Professional Woman

It’s Time for Critical Thinking About Critical Health

Prescriptive Policies Undermine the Freedom to Innovate

Beware of Modern-Day Witch Hunts

Irrational Regulation: An Underlying Cause of Our Economic Woes

The Middle Ground Between Milton Friedman and ESG Standards

Let’s Change the Narrative on Retirement

A New Frontier of Work-Life Flexibility

Democracy is Required for Business to Thrive

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