Founder of ConsciousWorks & KnightsCabin
Lisa Belanger, PhD, EMBA, CSEP-CEP
Dr. Lisa is the CEO of ConsciousWorks, a consulting firm that helps leaders apply the findings from leading-edge scientific research to maximize their mental capacity and performance. Lisa has a Ph.D. in Behavioural Medicine, an Executive MBA, and is a Certified Exercise Physiologist and High Performance Specialist.
Prior to COVID-19, Lisa was traveling the world (with her two month old baby) visiting companies to explore workplace culture, leadership, and the ability to destress from work. Pulling from the data and her lived experience she has created and hosts the popular podcast, Work Less, Produce More.
Lisa is also the founder of a national charity, Knight’s Cabin, offering wellness programming to cancer survivors and the author of Inspire Me Well: Finding Motivation to Take Control of Your Health and A Cup of Mindfulness: For the Busy & Restless.
Her greatest accomplishments include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with her father, running the Paris Marathon, and being a professional snack holder to two tiny humans.
At the beginning of Dr. Lisa’s career,
she spent countless hours speaking with people with a terminal illness while researching cancer, health behaviours and quality of life. These conversations and reflections motivated her to study and seek experiences on how to make the most out of life.
Dr. Lisa realized that our mental wellbeing is our most valuable asset and that our routines - the seeming small daily habits, work design and skills - improve how we work and how we view the world.
She became keen to translate the science on how we can be proactive with our mental and physical health, continuously learn, and perform at our best, into creating meaningful work and depth of experience in life.
