The Leader's Toolbox
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The Leader's Toolbox
Leadership Nuggets with Special Guest, Lisa Blanton
Lisa Blanton brings over 30 years of experience in corporate leadership roles such as COO, CFO, and CHRO, and 13 years as the owner of an architectural engineering firm before founding Austin Alliance Group in 2018. Her expertise spans strategy, integration, and building strong people relationships, with a focus on driving exceptional results across financial, operational, and organizational aspects of business.
Throughout her career, Lisa has consistently guided leaders in building effective business functions—operations, finance, accounting, and human resources—while empowering them to focus on delivering outstanding products and services. She is passionate about helping leadership teams cultivate thriving organizations by creating environments that inspire excellence and foster a positive culture.
Lisa equips leadership teams with simple yet effective tools to achieve clarity, alignment, and cohesion. Her approach ensures teams execute their vision with focus and discipline while cultivating healthy and collaborative dynamics that drive success.
Dedicated to giving back to the HR profession, Lisa serves as Co-Director of Certification for Texas SHRM and has played an instrumental role on the board of SHRM Austin. Her leadership includes positions as Treasurer, Co-VP of Conference, President-Elect, President, and Immediate Past President, where she provides advisory guidance to volunteer HR leaders.
Lisa holds a Senior Certified HR Professional (SHRM-SCP) certification, a Training and Facilitation certification from the Association for Talent Development (ATD), and an MBA in Organizational Studies. Outside of her professional endeavors, Lisa enjoys cheering on Texas A&M sports, traveling, and unwinding solving true crime stories from her recliner.
Guided by her core values—help first, do the right thing, keep promises, grow or die, and be humbly confident—Lisa specializes in strategic planning, ownership transition, change management, operations, HR management, professional development, and management advising.
Links:
Website: https://austinalliancegroup.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisawatryblanton/