Lisa Tener Bio

Lisa Tener is a Stevie-award winning book coach, author and creativity catalyst, known for helping entrepreneur-authors, experts and visionaries easily access creative flow, free their voice, and write life-changing—and award-winning—books.

Her latest book, Breathe. Write. Breathe.: 18 Energizing Practices to Spark Your Writing and Free Your Voice, won 9 book awards! Lisa shares, "I wrote Breathe. Write. Breathe. to share the powerful mindful movement and breathing practices that have opened me, my clients and students to instant creative flow and inspiration to produce our best writing. It works for professional writers, executives, novices, creatives and anyone who wants—or needs—to write."

The book has a 5 star rating on Amazon, with 35 reviews, many from entrepreneurs, including 5-time founder, impact investor, and published book coaching client, Coco Sellman, who wrote, Breathe. Write. Breathe. by Lisa Tener is a game-changer for women writers and entrepreneurs like me," favorably comparing it to one of the most famous creativity books of all time, The Artist's Way.

Lisa served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s CME publishing course for over a dozen years, establishing her as a leader in writing and publishing books by a wide range of well-known doctors and health care experts, hundreds of whom became successfully published authors! Over the years at the Harvard course, Lisa taught advanced workshops on book proposals, book writing, platform building, creativity and blog writing. Dozens of participants went on to work with Lisa and secure agent representation, 5- and 6-figure publishing deals. and appearances on the likes of “Good Morning America.”  

Lisa's clients have signed 5- and 6-figure publishing deals with dozens of publishers, including Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette—and they have appeared throughout national media: Today, Good Morning America, Oprah, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

Lisa has been quoted in the New York Times, Vice, Market Watch, Organic Spa and has appeared on national and local TV, including CNN’s HLN Weekend Express, ABC World News, PBS TV, Fox News, PIX 11 News NY and dozens of podcasts and other media.

Lisa holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management from MIT. Lisa incorporates Qigong and Polarity Yoga for creative flow and is certified by RP Qigong to teach Empowerments and Happiness Qigong. She studied Polarity Therapy and Polarity Yoga at the former Polarity Therapy Institute in Watertown, MA.

Lisa Tener's previous book, The Joy of Writing Journal, helps people connect with their creativity, purpose and wellbeing through journaling. The book won five prestigious awards including the Nautilus, IPPY and Benjamin Franklin Book Awards.

For major media contact Melissa Sones at melissasonesconsulting at gmail dot com or 917-806-4072 . for other inquires contact Geri Lafferty at geri at lisatener dot com (addresses spelled out to prevent harvesting by bots) or 415-706-0120.

If time-sensitive, contact Lisa Tener by email here, or 401-477-0886.

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