Lisa Morgan specialises in helping individuals and businesses
build creative strategies for the future. The guiding principle
of her work is that imagination plays a vital role in creating
our lives and the world we live in.
She has a rare combination of high-level international business experience and teaching expertise. Using a range of thinking tools including neuro linguistic programming (NLP) and creative visualisation, Lisa helps people solve problems and find winning strategies. She has done this for more than fifteen years, running workshops in many parts of the world. She has trained personnel in companies in brand and business planning, creative problem solving and communication skills. A published author in Japan and Taiwan, she has documented the dreams of teenagers in 'VOICE in their own words, teenagers predict the future.' She has run FUTURE SEEING projects for leading companies,
exploring emerging consumer attitudes, fashion trends, children’s
products, entertainment, food, drinks and developments in
branding.
Lisa’s background is as a strategic planner and researcher
working principally on behalf of marketing departments. She worked in research companies and in advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson where
she was a Senior Consumer Planner in London and Warsaw.
In 1994, Lisa was appointed Planning and Research Director,
Asia Pacific, for United Distillers in Hong Kong. In 1995
they sent her to Tokyo, which she made her base until 2004.
As she explored ways to innovate in business, Lisa became
interested in the power of the imagination to shape a company’s
fortunes. She studied creative thinking in a variety of applications, including Creative
Problem Solving at the University of New York, Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming
(becoming an NLP Master Practitioner) in the UK, visioning in the USA and shamanic studies in Hong Kong and Tokyo. It was the insights
she gained from these studies that helped shape her FUTURE
SEEING approach.
From 1998-2001, Lisa ran a series of international workshops
– The
17s Project – in collaboration with photographer, Caroline Parsons. It was an experimental documentation of visions of
the future and involved working with over 130 teenagers across Asia and the UK.
The results have been recorded in a video documentary, Voices
From The Future, and a bilingual (English and Japanese)
book, VOICE in their own words Teenagers Predict the
Future.
Working to help individuals fulfill their
potential and create the lives they desire has long been
an important feature of her work - she also a qualified
high-school teacher and early in her career taught in London
and in Jamaica. Since 1992, Lisa has also held workshops
for individuals wishing to develop a personal vision.
Lisa’ has run research projects and held workshops in the
UK, Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Japan, India, Indonesia, Korea,
China, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia,
Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand. Lisa holds creative
thinking skills seminars for companies and individuals and is available
for public speaking.
In April 2004, she returned to live in Britain to set up
a residential workshop centre, Green Lane Farm, dedicated
to imagining the future. She continues her international
consultancy work, collaborating with a network of researchers
and communication specialists around the world.
