Meet Your Book Writing Coach
Lisa Tener is a Book Writing Coach, published author, Book Writing trainer and speaker. She has appeared on national television — on ABC World News with Peter Jennings, NiteBeat, New Morning, HealthBeat, and PBS-TV. She has been quoted in Glamour, Family Circle, The Boston Globe and WebMD, and interviewed on dozens of radio shows throughout the nation.
Lisa serves on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School continuing education course on writing and publishing books. She appears monthly on Positive Living Radio with Patricia Raskin, offering a segment on Writing. She is a regular columnist for Aspire Magazine and serves on the magazine’s advisory board, as well as the advisory board of the International Association of Writers.
Her clients have appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, CNN, Fox News, New Morning and in countless magazines and newspapers. Her clients include doctors, consultants, company presidents and managers, success and life coaches, people with unusual true stories, musicians, university professors, therapists, holistic practitioners, healing professionals, moms and others.
As a book writing coach, she assists writers in all aspects of the writing process—from developing a book proposal and getting published to finding one’s creative voice, prioritizing projects, promoting one’s work, setting clear goals and developing a system for creative success. She teaches 8 week classes on book writing and workshops on writing in the zone: her five step system for inspiration and success for writers, a sure fire way to eliminate writer’s block.
Lisa is part of Aspire Media’s Inspiring Women Speaker’s Series for 2009. She served as a panelist for the International Women's Writing Guild's Meet the Authors Conference and the Festival of Rhode Island Authors. She presented at the highly successful Boston Social Forum and has taught a writing workshop to professors at the University of Rhode Island.
She is co-author with Peaco Todd and Jane Middelton-Moz of The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Anger: Dynamic Tools for Healthy Relationships (Health Communications, 2005). She originated the concept of Anger-obicsSM, and developed many of the Anger-obicsSM exercises in the book .
She has taught writing and creativity workshops throughout New England and in the Caribbean since 1994. She has also taught Anger-obicsSM workshops since 2003 with co-author Peaco Todd at conference centers, such as Learning Connection (Providence) and All That Matters (Wakefield, RI) and for corporations and organizations such as New Balance Athletic Shoes, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Ocean State Association of Residential Resources.
Lisa Tener has studied writing with Frank Conroy, during his tenure as Director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts (he is now Director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop), Broadway Playwright A.R. Gurney, Jr., and award-winning poets Jean Valentine and Gjertrud Schnackenberg. She earned her Master's degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management where she concentrated in marketing. She earned her Bachelor's degree from MIT. Anger-obicsSM was inspired by her studies in alternative and complementary healing modalities.
Prior to becoming an author, trainer and coach, she served as Executive Director of Hospitality Homes in Boston, an organization that provides housing for the families of patients who visit Boston for medical treatment. The housing is in the homes of volunteer hosts. During her tenure, the organization increased services by more than 300% and increased income by over 400%.
