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# Alisha De Lorenzo

Keynote speaker, therapist, and high performance coach Alisha De Lorenzo helps individuals, leaders, and organizations improve employee engagement and retention, workplace innovation, and organizational culture by embracing Positive Deviance.

## Speaker Profile

- Keynote Speaker
- Panelist

## Categories

- Burnout
- Corporate DEI
- Mental Health
- DEI Speakers
- Innovation
- Women's Empowerment
- Wellness Speakers
- Employee Engagement
- Corporate Culture
- Business Speakers

## Meet Alisha De Lorenzo

Organizations need authentic employee engagement in the workplace.

The way to fight burnout and disengagement is not simply less work. To inspire and empower an overwhelmed and underperforming workforce, individuals, leaders, and organizations must unlock what is already present in their teams.

Alisha De Lorenzo is an engagement strategist and human connection expert who focuses on unleashing aliveness, creating positive disruption, scaling innovation, and encouraging employee autonomy, agency, and creativity. She is also well-known for keynote and motivational speaking. Alisha De Lorenzo is available to be booked for corporate and private events.

## Biography

### Career in Education and Therapy

More than 15 years ago, while working in public education, Alisha was charged with helping her failing school district improve culture and performance. Unknowingly, this challenge paved the way for her to guide industries, organizations, and individuals in solving seemingly intractable problems through a deceptively simple approach: Positive Deviance.

Positive Deviance is rooted in one belief: in every organization, there are people whose outlier practices generate remarkable outcomes despite facing the same barriers and obstacles as everyone else. Because their innovative ways often live outside conditioned cultural norms, their solutions remain hidden in plain sight.

### Fighting the Burnout Epidemic

After years of experiencing the burnout and isolation that can come from challenging conventional thinking, Alisha understands the hope and happiness that come from being given the agency to discover and scale the solutions that work. She believes the only way to fight the burnout epidemic is by unleashing a deeper level of aliveness in people.

While her efforts went on to help transform the education system across New Jersey, her influence spread across multiple industries. Today, Alisha has become a force in reshaping how companies cut through the noise and solve the disengagement, disconnection, and declining morale affecting modern organizations.

### Keynote Speaking

Drawing on more than 20 years of combined experience as an acclaimed speaker, high-performance coach, award-winning educator, and therapist, Alisha shares a proven framework that helps leaders uncover and scale positive disruption.

Her work has been featured on PBS, NBC, and New Jersey Spotlight News. Her insights have impacted organizations such as Mondelez, Wawa, the U.S. Army, the New Jersey Department of Education, and many others.

The innovation your organization needs is already abundant, but it has often been stifled. Alisha helps leaders create a culture where people feel free to bring innovative, edgy, and future-forward practices to the forefront. Through her keynotes, workshops, and coaching sessions, audiences learn to infuse aliveness back into their work, strengthen corporate culture, and amplify the solutions already alive within their organizations.

## Hire Alisha De Lorenzo

Alisha is a high-performance coach and dynamic speaker with a proven track record of helping individuals and teams break through barriers, boost productivity, and achieve their highest goals.

Whether it is a keynote at a conference, a motivational seminar for employees, or a custom workshop tailored to a team’s needs, Alisha delivers practical and actionable insights that drive real results.

### How to Hire Alisha De Lorenzo

To inquire about Alisha De Lorenzo’s availability and speaking fee, contact The Mollie Plotkin Group.

When booking Alisha De Lorenzo, it is helpful to provide:

- Event type
- Venue
- Event location
- Proposed date and time

Alisha De Lorenzo is a popular choice for:

- Corporate events
- Private events
- Virtual events
- Conferences
- Festivals
- Private events and special gatherings

### Booking Price

Alisha De Lorenzo’s booking fee depends on the type of event, format, and location.

## Contact for Availability

Fill out the form to find out when Alisha De Lorenzo is available.

### Form Fields

- Date of Your Event
- Time of Your Event
- Type of Event
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- First Name
- Last Name
- Email
- Additional Comments

## Key Audience Takeaways

If the suggested topics do not fit your needs, her keynote can be tailored to your event and audience goals.

## Speaking Topics

### Unleashing a Culture of Aliveness: The Path to Getting More People More Engaged

The way to fight feeling overwhelmed, burned out, and disengaged is not simply less work. In fact, the only way to do more with less is by unleashing the next level of aliveness in your people.

Thriving in today’s uncertain and demanding workforce requires unlocking 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, innovative, and future-forward practices to the forefront in a way where everyone thrives.

This keynote leaves audiences inspired and equipped with practical insights to infuse creativity and aliveness back into an overwhelmed and underperforming workforce while amplifying what matters most.

#### Key Takeaways

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

### Unlocking the Power of Positive Disruption: Discovering the Solutions that Drive Success

Solutions are supposed to be outside the box, so people often assume they must come from outside the organization. But what if the answers to your biggest challenges are already alive within your team, simply waiting to be discovered?

Organizations today face disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change, and ineffective leadership strategies. With many employees feeling invisible or miserable at work, leaders need tools to challenge conventional thinking and allow new behaviors and mindsets to emerge through positive disruption.

Positive disruption consists of outlier practices that are often suppressed by conditioned cultural norms, but once discovered, they can lead to remarkable results.

When leaders commit to discovering solutions, the possibility of a new reality appears. This keynote helps organizations uncover positive disruption already in their midst and use it to unleash the next level of aliveness.

#### Key Takeaways

- A framework for moving employees from disengaged to corporate ambassadors
- Four steps to discover and scale solutions hidden in plain sight
- How to galvanize teams to take action now
- Strategies for leadership that unlock differentiation, growth, and high performance
- How to shift your focus from problems to solutions

## Workshops

After the keynote, Alisha offers customized workshops that take teams deeper into the work.

### Workshop Topics

- Well-Being and High-Performance
- Leading Through Positive Disruption
- Unleashing Aliveness in Mental Health, Diversity, and Inclusion

## Testimonials

> “Alisha’s keynote was a highlight of our annual summit. Her passion, expertise, and ability to communicate complex ideas in a relatable manner left a lasting impact on the entire audience. Alisha’s emphasis on creating cultures of connection and well-being was a refreshing reminder that the solutions are already alive within our organization.”
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> **Jerri Kemble**, National Academic Advisor, ClassLink

> “Alisha De Lorenzo takes us on a transformative journey each time she works with our team and members. Through her magnetic presence and skillful creation of nurturing and inclusive spaces, Alisha cultivates healing, wellness, and a profound sense of belonging that resonates long after the sessions end.”
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> **Chrissi Miles**, Director Professional Development and Instructional Issues, NJEA

> “Alisha’s command for transforming organizational culture and her ability to thoughtfully and empathetically share emergent leadership strategies is astounding. It has profoundly changed the way we carry out our mission.”
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> **Doug Eagles**, Chief Executive Officer, Boys and Girls Clubs

> “Enlightening!! In just one hour she managed to deliver a message that changed the way we perceive inclusivity and connection within our teams. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for us this year!”
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> **Terriann Procida**, CEO, Innovative Benefit Planning

## Media Kit

### Press

- NJEA: *Spike Lee, Ani DiFranco, Danya Ruttenberg, and Alisha DeLorenzo to headline NJEA Convention*
- PBS: *One-on-One | Joseph Nappi; Alisha De Lorenzo*
- Burlington County Times: *Here's what a return to school means for student mental health and what to do to help*
- NJEA: *Equity Alliance Weekend builds collaboration for social justice*

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