As a leading publishing industry expert, Lisa Tener’s engaging and interactive style inspires audiences to engage their creativity, innovate, successfully write and publish, and succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavors.
A frequent speaker and trainer on how to write a book and get published, Lisa teaches on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s CME publishing course and women in healthcare leadership course. Lisa also guides audiences in nurturing creativity, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship and offers a wide range of options from keynotes and presentations to hands-on workshops and interactive webinars.
Lisa Tener Speaking at The Rhode Island Bar Association
Whether it’s a gathering of entrepreneurs, writers, healthcare providers, university professors, creatives, wellness practitioners or thought leaders, Lisa Tener offers an array of topics that can be adapted to your organization, group or company’s needs. Lisa brings clarity, hands-on creative empowerment and fun to writing, publishing, innovation, leadership, marketing and many of today’s hottest topics. To inquire about availability or discuss the needs of your organization, please contact us.
Popular Presentation Topics
Applying the TENER Method for Creative Flow and Innovation
Bring Your Book to Life®
How to Write a Winning Book Proposal
Secrets of 5- and 6-Figure Book Deals
Lisa Tener Presenting at Harvard Medical School’s CME writing and publishing course
Other Speaking Topics
Writing Your Way to Well-being
5 Ways to Sell More Books with Special Sales
Writing to Riches: Tapping the Power of Blogs, Books and Other Writing to Brand Your Work
6 Steps to Becoming a 6-Figure Writer
Beyond Your Book: How to Leverage Your Book for a Successful Business
How to Write a Book Based on Your Leadership Style
Additional Topics: Gold Stevie Award Winner and Marketer of the Year in Media at the American Business Awards, Lisa received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and speaks on additional business topics including entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation and work-life balance.
Selected List of Speaking Venues
Business and Professional Conferences / Organizations
- Harvard Medical School: Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare (2016 – present)
- Harvard Medical School CME Publishing Course: 2006 – present (speaker, panelist and advanced workshop leader)
- Business of Book Coaching Summit (2020, featured guest)
- Fall 2019 Nonfiction Writers Conference (2019, one of 8 featured speakers)
- Bryant University Women’s Summit 2018, 2015 (panelist, presenter)
- Rhode Island Bar Association 2017 (solo presenter)
- NIDA Business School, Bangkok, Thailand 2017 (solo presenter)
- NLP Top Coach, Bangkok, Thailand 2016 (solo workshop presenter)
- Newport Interactive Marketers (keynote)
- International Coach Federation New England, Featured Presenter: Write That Book! Get Started with the Right Book and Grow Your Coaching Business
- Association of Rhode Island Authors (ARIA) featured speaker
- San Francisco Writers Conference: workshop leader, panelist, consultations
- Ocean State Summer Writing Conference (Panelist and workshop leader, multiple years; subjects include Savvy Author’s Publishing Options, Social Media for Authors, Promoting Your Work with New & Traditional Media)
- Dozens of libraries and bookstores
- America Means Business Conference, NYC, sponsored by The Stevie Awards 10th Anniversary. Presenting on one of the two main stages on “How I Did It” (grew my business)
- Fire Up Your Business Conference (sharing the platform with these luminaries: T. Harv Ecker, Joe Vitale, Ken Foster, Penny Sansevieri, Arvee Robinson and more)
- Emerging Women in Business, Advancing Women Entrepreneurs (multiple years)
- Association of Image Consultants International (International Conference)
- New England Holistic Chamber of Commerce (keynote) (multi-year)
- Medical Fusion Conference
- Multiple summits and webinars on book writing and publishing
- All That Matters, Wakefield, RI (multiple workshops annually)
- Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference
- International Women’s Writing Guild’s Meet the Authors Conference (panelist)
- IGNITE! “Enlighten us but make it quick.” Wakefield, RI
- Festival of Rhode Island Authors
Presenting publishing strategies to professors at NIDA Business School in Bangkok, Thailand
Inspirational/Women/Yoga
- Harvard Medical School: Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare (2016 – present)
- Bryant University Women’s Summit 2018, 2015 (panelist, presenter)
- Gloria Gemma Foundation First Annual Passport to Survivorship Conference
- Women’s Club SWANS (Keynote)
- Inspiring Women Speaker Series sponsored by Aspire Magazine / Linda Joy
- All That Matters Yoga Center – Many writing workshops over the years
- Love, Light, Laughter event workshop leader (Writing in the Zone)
- Lotus Rising, Fall River
Corporations, Associations and Hospitals
- NLP Top Coach, Bangkok, Thailand 2016, 2019 (solo workshop presenter)
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute (3 presentations on “Anger-obcis)
- New Balance Shoes
- University Professional Development Center, Wakefield RI
Lisa also teaches privately in Narragansett RI and by webinar.
TV appearances include ABC World News, WCVB’s Chronicle (twice), WCVB’s Health Beat, PBS-TV RI, NiteBeat, Hallmark Channel’s New Morning, What’s the Alternative? and several news programs in Boston.
Lisa has been quoted and/or featured in The New York Times, Vice, Market Watch, the Boston Globe, Providence Journal, Glamour and many other media.
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