About Dr. Lisa


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Human
Capital
Protection
Strategist.

Dr. Lisa Richardson studies how organizations unintentionally overload their most dependable people.

Her work focuses on The Reliability Trap, a structural pattern where responsibility repeatedly routes to the same contributors until capacity becomes fragile.

Professional Background


Aspiring Dean of Students (or Director of Distance Learning) slips into web design and marketing while working on online education programs and faculty development. 15 years and a successful agency later, she returns to research and guiding people with her partner coaches at BestieFinder. Taking it a step further, she digs into how individuals who form the backbones of organization break under the pressure of being reliable.

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BestieFinder, myGiftsID™ &
Gift Intelligence™

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Why this Work Matters


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Why am I so into this?

I’ve watched too many business owners with great ideas go broke throwing money at problems they don’t understand. Hiring the wrong contractors for the way they work, dropping balls when they’re too overwhelmed to stay connected with clients, mistaking work ethic for leadership capability – the list goes on.

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Designing Teams that Don’t Break their best people


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The people who hold organizations together are often the ones most at risk of being overwhelmed by them.

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