Present in the moment. Honest in the room. Humble enough to mean it.
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Real-Time Feedback
Feedback belongs in the moment — not the annual review, not a carefully worded email three weeks later. The most useful truth is the one delivered right now, while it can still change something.
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Authentic Leadership
The best leaders aren't the ones with the most polished answers. They're the ones honest enough to show up as themselves — consistently, under pressure, and in front of the people watching most closely.
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Leading with Humility
Humility isn't weakness. It's the intelligence to know what you don't know, the confidence to ask, and the character to give others the credit they've earned. It's also what makes feedback land.
01 — Hosting / Speaking
Own the room. Every room.
From headline keynotes to full-day conference hosting — Lisa brings unforgettable energy, inimitable intelligence, and a humour that works in the most serious of rooms.
Lisa speaks and hosts across corporate and enterprise — keynotes on authentic leadership, real-time feedback, and the future of talent, alongside MC work for sales conferences, leadership summits, and awards ceremonies across the US, Asia, and Europe.
STAGE
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Keynote SpeakingReal-time feedback, authentic leadership, leading with humility — tailored to your audience, every time.
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Sales Conferences & Kick-OffsEnergise the room, set the tone, hold the momentum across a full day.
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Leadership ConferencesUnforgettable energy and inimitable humour — even in the most serious of rooms.
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Awards CeremoniesPace, warmth, and presence. The host who makes the evening, not just fills it.
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Panel FacilitationDraws out the real answers. Not afraid to push back on stage.
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Global EventsHigh-profile events across the US, Asia, and Europe — cultural sensitivity built in.
Lisa, Real
"A sales conference MC has one job: make the room believe the year ahead is worth showing up for. A leadership keynote has a different one: make the room honest enough to admit what needs to change. I've done both. Sometimes on the same day."
— Lisa Forrest
Who this is for
Leaders & event teams who need certainty.
Lisa speaks to C-suite and senior leadership audiences, HR and talent professionals, and large-scale conference audiences in financial services, professional services, and corporate enterprise.
She gives both speakers bookers and event organisers complete confidence — in London, New York, Singapore, or anywhere in between.
What to expect
Prepared. Never scripted.
Every keynote is researched and tailored. Every event is thoroughly briefed. Lisa will know your speakers, agenda, objectives, and audience before she arrives.
Keynotes from 20 minutes to 90-minute interactive sessions. Event hosting from half-day conferences to multi-day summits.
200+
Keynotes & events delivered
3
Continents — US, Asia, Europe
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Off-the-shelf decks. Ever.
Ready to book Lisa?
02 — Voice Over
A voice that sounds like a person.
🇬🇧London-educated. Unmistakably global.
Clear. Warm. A London-educated, globally recognised accent that carries genuine intelligence — not borrowed gravitas. From corporate narration to live TV, Lisa's voice is built for the moments that matter.
Lisa provides voice over for corporate narration, e-learning, explainer videos, brand campaigns, live TV, and internal communications. Clients come to her when they want content that sounds like it was written by someone who means it — and read by someone who does too.
VOICE
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Corporate NarrationAnnual reports, company films, brand stories — with credibility.
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E-Learning & TrainingModules that hold attention because the voice earns it.
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Explainer VideosClarity, pace, warmth. No filler, no fuss.
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Brand CampaignsA London-educated accent that carries authority without alienating.
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Live TVBroadcast experience — present, clear, and composed under pressure.
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Internal CommunicationsLeadership messages that actually land.
Lisa, Real
"Most voice over sounds like someone reading at you. I sound like someone talking to you. There's a difference — and your audience will feel it within the first three seconds, even if they can't explain why. The accent helps. So does actually understanding what you're saying."
— Lisa Forrest
The voice
London-educated. Unmistakably global.
Lisa's is a London-educated, globally recognised accent — clear and warm, with the authority that international audiences trust and domestic audiences recognise.
AccentLondon-educated, globally recognised
Tone rangeWarm · Conversational · Intelligent
Best suited toCorporate, financial, leadership content
FormatsE-learning · Narration · Campaigns · Live TV
TurnaroundFast. Home studio available.
Who this is for
Brands & broadcasters who mean it.
Lisa works with corporate communications teams, content production agencies, e-learning developers, and broadcasters — particularly well-suited to financial services, professional services, and leadership-focused content.
Scripts are interpreted, not just read — fewer revision rounds, and a final product that sounds like it means what it says.
The most powerful thing a leader can say isn't "I have the answer." It's "I don't — and I want to find it with you." That takes humility. Lisa helps leaders find it.
Lisa coaches individual leaders and executive teams ready to lead authentically — through real-time feedback, genuine self-awareness, and the humility to have the conversations most leaders keep putting off.
LEAD
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Real-Time FeedbackLearning to give it, receive it, and act on it — in the moment it matters.
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Leading with HumilityThe confidence to not have all the answers. The wisdom to ask better questions.
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Authentic PresenceLeading as yourself — consistently, under pressure, when people are watching.
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One-to-One & Group CoachingTailored to you. Honest about what's actually getting in the way.
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Blunt to be KindThe methodology behind delivering hard truths with real care.
Lisa, Real
"The leaders who change things aren't the ones with the loudest voices or the most polished answers. They're the ones humble enough to ask, present enough to listen, and honest enough to act on what they hear. That's what I coach."
— Lisa Forrest
Who this is for
Leaders done performing.
Lisa coaches senior leaders, directors, and executives in financial services, professional services, and corporate enterprise — anywhere the pressure to perform a version of leadership is high.
Also works with HR leaders who want to model the real-time feedback culture they're trying to build.
The approach
Present. Direct. Real.
Lisa's coaching is grounded in the same values as everything she does: real-time, authentic, and humble. She will tell you what she observes. She will challenge what isn't serving you. And she'll do it with the care that makes challenge feel like a gift.
Engagements from single intensive sessions to ongoing monthly programmes. In-person and virtual.
15+
Years of leadership experience behind every session
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Core belief: feedback given now changes everything
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Sessions where nothing real was said
Ready to lead for real?
04 — Talent Acquisition Consulting
Hire for the future. Not the past.
The next generation of talent doesn't want spin. They want authenticity, real conversations, and leaders humble enough to admit the organisation is still figuring it out. And with AI reshaping the skills organisations need to hire for, most are figuring out more than they'd like to admit.
Lisa has spent 25 years working with investment banking clients, helping them reimagine how they attract the next generation of talent. She advises organisations ready to be honest about what their hiring says about who they really are.
TALENT
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Talent Strategy AdvisoryFuture-focused thinking at board and leadership level.
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Next-Gen AttractionReaching a generation that sees through spin — and understands AI better than most hiring managers.
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AI & Skills StrategyHow AI is reshaping the skills you need — and what that means for how you hire.
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Hiring Process DesignRebuilt from the candidate's perspective. Honestly.
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Employer Brand ConsultingWhat you say you are, what you actually are, and how to close the gap.
Lisa, Real
"The next generation of talent is the most discerning hiring market that's ever existed. They can tell within three minutes of an interview whether your values are real or wallpaper. Most organisations are still showing them wallpaper."
— Lisa Forrest
Who this is for
HR leaders ready to be honest.
Lisa works with CHROs, talent acquisition directors, and in-house hiring teams — particularly in financial services, investment banking, and professional services.
Also available to organisations outside financial services wanting to apply 25 years of hard-won experience to their own hiring challenges.
The expertise
25 years. One honest truth.
Lisa has spent a quarter of a century inside investment banking talent — including the defining challenge of this moment: how AI is changing the skills organisations need to hire for.
Consulting engagements from single-day strategy sessions to multi-month advisory partnerships.
25+
Years in investment banking talent
1st
Question: what does your hiring say about who you really are?
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Off-the-shelf frameworks that actually work
Time to rethink how you hire.
05 — About Lisa
Present. Honest. Real.
Three words. One way of working. Across every culture, every continent, every boardroom. Everything Lisa does is built on the belief that being real is both the hardest and the most useful thing a leader can be.
With over 25 years working with investment banking clients on talent strategy, Lisa has worked across all major global regions — splitting her time between the UK, US, and Asia. That breadth of experience has given her a unique understanding of the cultural nuances that shape how leadership lands, how feedback is received, and how talent decisions get made differently around the world.
She leads every engagement with the same three convictions: feedback belongs in the room, not the review. Leadership is most powerful when it's most human. And humility isn't a weakness — it's the thing that makes everything else work. Wherever in the world she's working, the truth remains: real-time feedback is the single most powerful tool a leader has.
LISA
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25+ YearsInvestment banking talent strategy and next-generation attraction.
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Global ReachUK, US, and Asia — deep understanding of cultural nuances that make leadership land differently.
Leadership CoachReal-time feedback, authentic leadership, and leading with humility.
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Voice OverLondon-educated. Unmistakably global. Corporate, e-learning, live TV.
Lisa, Real
"I built this around three things I genuinely believe: that feedback given now is worth ten reviews given later; that the most powerful leaders are the ones who lead as themselves; and that humility — real humility, not performed humility — is what makes people actually want to follow you."
— Lisa Forrest
The career
Built in the hardest rooms.
Having worked across the UK, US, and Asia, Lisa brings a unique understanding of how cultural nuances shape leadership, feedback, and talent decisions. What motivates a team in Singapore is not what motivates one in New York or Manchester — and Lisa knows the difference.
That experience gives her something most coaches and consultants don't: genuine global credibility, and the scars to back it up.
The three convictions
Present. Honest. Humble.
Real-time feedback, because the moment passes and so does its impact. Authentic leadership, because performing a version of yourself is exhausting and nobody's fooled. Leading with humility, because the leaders who change things are the ones willing to say "I got that wrong" in public.
Whether on stage in New York, coaching in Singapore, or in a boardroom in London — these three things are always in the room. Feedback, given in real time, changes everything.
25+
Years in investment banking talent
200+
Events, talks & coaching sessions delivered
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Convictions that run through everything Lisa does
Beyond the brief
When Lisa's not working.
An avid theatre-goer and reviewer, Lisa brings the same critical eye to a first night as she does to a leadership session — looking for what's authentic, what's performed, and whether the audience is genuinely moved or just politely applauding.
She's also a musician and speech writer — which explains why her words, whether spoken from a stage or written for someone else's, always land with rhythm and precision.
The arts, like leadership, reward honesty. Lisa has never been able to separate the two.
A philosophy worth asking about
Ask Lisa about her Sun & Wind approach to leadership.
Inspired by Aesop's fable of the North Wind and the Sun, Lisa's Sun and Wind philosophy sits at the heart of everything she teaches about leadership, feedback, and influence. A deceptively simple idea — and one of the most powerful frameworks she brings to her coaching and keynotes.
You'll have to ask her about it in person. Some things are better said out loud.
Ready to work with Lisa?
Get in Touch
Let's talk. For real.
Whether you're booking a keynote, exploring coaching, or just want to ask about the Sun and Wind approach — this is the right place to start.
Lisa works with corporate and enterprise clients across the UK, US, and Asia. Fill in the form and she'll come back to you directly — no PA, no holding page, no waffle.
HELLO
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Speaking & KeynotesAvailable for conferences, summits, and off-sites globally.
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MC & EventsSales conferences, leadership forums, awards ceremonies.
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Voice OverCorporate narration, live TV, e-learning, and brand campaigns.
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Leadership CoachingOne-to-one and group. In-person and virtual.
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Talent ConsultingStrategy sessions to multi-month advisory partnerships.
