Lisa Gable

Lisa Gable serves on the External Advisory Board (EAB) for CEOWORLD magazine. She is a CEO, former US Ambassador, UN Delegate, and a best-selling author of "Turnaround: How to Change Course When Things Are Going South" (IdeaPress Publishing, October 5, 2021), which has been featured on Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Lisa is a renowned global expert in turning around failing organizations and inventing innovative business strategies. She has a track record of over three decades in successfully reviving businesses, teams, non-profit organizations, political campaigns, and government ventures, and resolving complex problems. Through her extensive experience, Lisa has discovered that the most effective method of getting back on track is through the application of process engineering principles, which entails a thorough reassessment of all organizational procedures and practices while maintaining respectful and empathetic relationships and fostering strong partnerships.

You can follow her on LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

CEO Insider

Honor Gordon Moore: Unite Across Party Lines to Fuel Innovation

CEO InsiderLisa Gable

Maintaining America’s innovation edge is crucial, but bureaucratic excesses at the federal level could slow us down. As Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, once said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” To maintain the United States’ position as a technological superpower, bipartisan cooperation is needed to redesign our...

Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation

CEO Insider

The Value of Showing Up and Following Through

CEO InsiderLisa Gable

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...

CEO Opinions

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

CEO OpinionsLisa Gable

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,...

Banking and Finance

It’s Time for Critical Thinking About Critical Health

Banking and FinanceLisa Gable

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

CEO InsiderLisa Gable

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...

Tech and Innovation

Beware of Modern-Day Witch Hunts

Tech and InnovationLisa Gable

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...

CEO Journal

Irrational Regulation: An Underlying Cause of Our Economic Woes

CEO JournalLisa Gable

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

CEO InsiderLisa Gable

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

CEO InsightsLisa Gable

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

CEO InsiderLisa Gable

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...

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CEOWORLD magazine

Lisa Gable

Honor Gordon Moore: Unite Across Party Lines to Fuel Innovation

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

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