Alisha De Lorenzo is an acclaimed international speaker, award-winning educator, and Certified High Performance Coach. As the founder and CEO of Living Yes, she provides training sessions on workplace culture, leadership, and engagement. As a speaker, her keynotes focus on moving teams from standard engagement to "deepownership" using the "Power of Positive Disruption". Available for a range of services, including keynotes, interactive workshops, and high-performance coaching, Alisha encourages audiences to maintain their well-being and unlock their full potential.
With a foundation in education and counseling, Alisha holds a Bachelor of Science in Movement Sciences and Education from William Paterson University of New Jersey alongside a Master of Science in Professional Counseling from Monmouth University. After spending her early career as a teacher, student assistance counselor, and social-emotional learning coordinator, she became a Licensed Professional Counselor in the NJ Center for the Healing Arts. Drawing on this experience, Alisha shares informed insights on mental health, diversity and inclusion, leadership, and high performance within her sessions.
Alisha has shared her thought-leading insights and frameworks with audiences across PBS, NBC, and NJ Spotlight News. In 2025, she also appeared on the Q-Ed podcast, where she spoke about the power of positive disruption in learning. Additionally, she has been sought after by organisations like Mondelez, Wawa, the US Army, and several government officials. Most recently, in 2026, she delivered a people leader session for Storck USA, L.P. and a keynote for the NJASA and NJSA's Women's Leadership Breakfast.
Committed to reshaping how organisations address disengagement, disconnection, and declining morale, Alisha draws on her background in psychotherapy and counselling to share practical strategies that strengthen human connection, inspire positive change, and empower teams to thrive. Her 12-week high-performance workshop is particularly useful for leaders looking to improve their decision-making, productivity, and well-being. For events looking to unlock innovation and drive engagement, Alisha De Lorenzo is an outstanding addition!
Alisha De Lorenzo's speaking topics are listed below:
Unleashing The Power of Positive Disruption
Discovering the Solutions That Drive Success
We think solutions are found on the outside when what we really need to do is discover them from within. What if the answers to the challenges you face are already alive within your organization, just waiting to be discovered?
Now more than ever, organizations face a tyranny of disengagement, siloed innovation, resistance to change and ineffective leadership strategies. With staggering statistics like 43% of employees feel invisible and over 20% of people feel miserable at work, every leader needs the tools to challenge conventional thinking and make way for new behaviors and mindsets to emerge by turning to positive disruption.
Positive disruptions are the pockets of outlier practices otherwise quelled by the conditioned, cultural norms of the business that, once discovered, lead to remarkable outcomes.
When leaders are invested in discovering a solution, then the prospect of a new reality can appear. Together, we’ll unleash the next level of aliveness in your people by discovering the positive disruption in your midst.
Key Audience Takeaways:
- A framework for moving employees from disengaged to corporate ambassadors.
- 4 steps to discover and scale solutions that are hidden in plain sight
- Strategies for effective leadership that unlock differentiation, growth and high performance
- Shift your vision from looking at the problems to discovering the solutions
- Galvanize your teams to take action now
Unleashing A Culture of Aliveness
The Path to Getting More People More Engaged
The way to fight overwhelm, burnout and disengagement is not less work. 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 us to unlock 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, edgy, future-forward practices to the forefront. And, do so in such a way that we take responsibility for working with each other to create the conditions for everyone to thrive.
Leave inspired, equipped with actionable insights, and ready to empower an overwhelmed and underperforming workforce to infuse creativity and aliveness back into their work and amplify more of what you truly value.
Key Audience Takeaways:
- A framework for increasing employee engagement, productivity and attachment to the organization
- Build a culture of aliveness that drives innovation, creativity, collaboration and growth
- 4 steps to unleash aliveness in you and your teams.
- Strategies for uncovering shared problems and discovering solutions hidden in plain sight
- Compelling case studies that lead to remarkable outcomes
- Feeling fully alive!
Official Feedback From In-Person & Virtual Events:
"Alisha's command for transforming organizational culture and her ability to thoughtfully and empathetically share emergent leadership strategies with my staff and I has profoundly changed the way we carry out our mission." - Doug Eagles, Chief Executive Officer, Boys and Girls Clubs
"Alisha is a guiding force in reshaping the way we solve for the disengagement, disconnection and declining morale plaguing our organizations.” - Sean Spiller, President NJEA
"Human Connection is the pulse of the YMCA work. Alisha's message as keynote speaker for our All-Team Rally was a perfect sentiment for inspiration, and a reminder that every single team member brings something special and much needed in our mission to strengthen lives." - Laurie Goganzer, President and CEO, YMCA of Greater Monmouth County
"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." - Jerri Kemble, National Academic Advisor, ClassLink
“Alisha takes us on a transformative journey each time she works with our team and members. Her magnetic presence and skillful creation of inclusive spaces cultivate a profound sense of belonging that resonates long after the session ends." - Christine Miles, Director of Professional Development NJEA
"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." - Jerri Kemble, National Academic Advisor, ClassLink
"Enlightening!! In just one hour, Alisha 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!" - Terriann Procida, CEO, Innovative Benefit Planning
"Captivating and Compelling!! Alisha taps into her profound understanding of the human spirit and offers a roadmap for positive disruption that unlocks innovation, creativity, and cultures of collective efficacy." - Christian Fuscarino, Executive Director, Garden State Equality
- 2026 - Keynote Speaker at the NJASA and NJSA's Women's Leadership Breakfast: Transcending Boundaries in School Leadership event at Monmouth University
- 2026 - Delivered a people leader session for Storck USA, L.P.
- 2025 - Appeared on the Q-Ed Up Podcast
- 2019 - Interim Deputy Director of Garden State Equality
- 2019 - Appeared in the 2019 LGBT Power List published by Insider NJ
- 2016 - Founder and CEO of Living Yes LLC
- 2014 - Licensed Professional Counselor in the NJ Center for the Healing Arts
- 2005 - Teacher, Student Assistance Counselor, Social Emotional Learning Coordinator
- Master of Science in Professional Counseling from Monmouth University
- Bachelor of Science in Movement Sciences and Education from William Paterson University of New Jersey
How to hire Alisha De Lorenzo
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