Executive Certificate in Organization Development Consulting & Change Leadership
Lisa Silverberg

Lisa Silverberg, ODCCL Assistant Program Director, is the founder and principal of Process Matters, LLC. She is an OD consultant, facilitator, and coach. Lisa Silverberg, ODCCL Assistant Program Director, is the founder and principal of Process Matters, LLC. She is an OD consultant, facilitator, and coach who brings passion and experience to her work with organizations advocating for justice. More than 20 years ago, Lisa started working to build capacity of activists and organizations so they might be both more humane and impactful people and organizations. Lisa helps clarify personal and organizational goals, co-creates conversations and processes that move people into action, and supports people so they can bring their most creative and resourceful selves to the hard work of advocating for social, economic, and racial justice. Technically, Lisa brings skills in capacity building, leadership development, planning, facilitation, and coaching; personally, she brings contagious optimism, steadfast commitment, heartfelt honesty, and abundant humor. Lisa also leverages recent findings in neuroscience and somatics to help leaders focus not only on what they are DOING as leaders, but who they are BEING as leaders. Lisa has a diverse client base, including The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Women’s Refugee Commission, The Veterans Administration, The American Society for Clinical Oncology, The Partnership for Working Families, The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, the Human Rights Campaign, and many more local, state and national groups, including multi-stakeholder coalitions. She has coached leaders all over the country, including those at the NEA, MoveOn, the Ford Foundation, and the Equality Federation. Lisa has served on the faculty of the leadership development program at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and as a coach with the Novo Foundations Move to End Violence program. Lisa practices reflective work on white privilege in caucus spaces in SEIU, Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ), and Georgetown University. Lisa is a graduate of the Georgetown University certificate program in Organization Development and served as ODCCL Program Director from 2020 to 2023. She has completed coaching training through both the Coaches Training Institute and the Presence-Based Coaching Program. She holds a graduate degree in Sociology from American University and is certified in several self-assessment instruments including MBTI, ILS, FEBI, and The Polarity Navigator.