Lisa A. Smith, MBA is a business strategist, transformational speaker, coach and founder. After more than a decade of coaching individuals through transformation in their health, businesses, and lives, Lisa came to recognize a common thread beneath many of the challenges people were trying to solve: chronic stress created by the way they were thinking, living, deciding, and responding to circumstances they no longer felt free to change.

Her work challenges the conventional idea that stress is simply something successful people must learn to manage. Lisa believes chronic stress can be eliminated, and that doing so requires more than better time management, stronger boundaries, or another self-care routine. It requires addressing the beliefs, perceptions, emotional patterns, and decisions that continually recreate stress in the first place. 

At the center of her work is Radical Obedience®, Lisa's philosophy for pursuing divine instruction and purpose with complete surrender rather than fear, resistance, delay, or the need to control the outcome. She teaches that much of chronic stress is created in the space between what we know we are being called to do and our attempts to negotiate, postpone, partially obey, or control what happens next.

For Lisa, Radical Obedience® is the antidote to chronic stress because surrender eliminates the exhausting responsibility of trying to control what was never ours to control. It invites people to exchange fear for faith, indecision for clarity, resistance for alignment, and the relentless pursuit of certainty for the freedom of obedience.

Lisa A. Smith, MBA is a business strategist, transformational speaker, coach and founder. After more than a decade of coaching individuals through transformation in their health, businesses, and lives, Lisa came to recognize a common thread beneath many of the challenges people were trying to solve: chronic stress created by the way they were thinking, living, deciding, and responding to circumstances they no longer felt free to change.

Her work challenges the conventional idea that stress is simply something successful people must learn to manage. Lisa believes chronic stress can be eliminated, and that doing so requires more than better time management, stronger boundaries, or another self-care routine. It requires addressing the beliefs, perceptions, emotional patterns, and decisions that continually recreate stress in the first place. 

At the center of her work is Radical Obedience®, Lisa's philosophy for pursuing divine instruction and purpose with complete surrender rather than fear, resistance, delay, or the need to control the outcome. She teaches that much of chronic stress is created in the space between what we know we are being called to do and our attempts to negotiate, postpone, partially obey, or control what happens next.

For Lisa, Radical Obedience® is the antidote to chronic stress because surrender eliminates the exhausting responsibility of trying to control what was never ours to control. It invites people to exchange fear for faith, indecision for clarity, resistance for alignment, and the relentless pursuit of certainty for the freedom of obedience.

Lisa is currently writing a book on Radical Obedience®, making the case for complete surrender in a world obsessed with control. She is also the creator of The H.E.R. Method™, her proprietary framework for eliminating chronic stress through three interconnected phases. The method begins by healing and regulating the body and mind, progresses into identifying and eliminating the root circumstances and thought patterns perpetuating chronic stress, and ultimately equips individuals to live from a place of greater alignment, clarity, and Radical Obedience®.

Lisa's approach is grounded not only in theory, but in lived transformation and more than a decade of coaching experience. Her work has helped thousands of people improve their physical and emotional health, challenge limiting beliefs, make courageous decisions, and create lives that more closely reflect who they believe they are called to become.

Her clients have included some of the world's most influential leaders, including Eric Thomas, Ph.D., widely known as the world's #1 motivational speaker, whom Lisa helped identify and eliminate sources of chronic stress while maintaining the extraordinary demands of his leadership, speaking, and business career.

As a sought-after speaker and facilitator, Lisa has brought her work to audiences and organizations including Microsoft, Intel, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Wayne State University, the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and other corporations, universities, organizations, and leadership communities across the country.