07: Lisa Mulligan on using personal experience to achieve organisational change

In this episode, Helen chats with Lisa Mulligan.

Lisa Mulligan is playing an influential role helping create organisations where people can comfortably contribute and flourish.

She’s the founder and Director of The Culture Ministry, and The Culture Club and it’s her dream to build a pragmatic network of experienced D&I practitioners, offering D&I support to organisations to create successful and thriving workplaces.

Prior to starting The Culture Ministry, Lisa spent more than 20 years working in HR and organisational change roles in global businesses in Australia, the UK and Singapore.

Now based in Auckland, New Zealand, Lisa is also the host and presenter of the popular podcast ‘A Dog Called Diversity’ which has been rated by FeedSpot as one of the 20 best Diversity and Inclusion podcasts

In this conversation, Lisa talks about her experiences making big changes in her own life and how she leverages what she’s learned to support individuals and businesses create sustainable and inclusive workplaces.

Highlights:

• A series of imperfect steps: Realising early in her career that each role she took needed to be the perfect position, but could be an important stepping stone.
• Realising big dreams: Lisa explains how sometimes achieving a “big dream” can leave you feeling stuck once you get there because you haven’t thought about “what’s next?”.
• Journey from corporate to entrepreneurship: The building blocks Lisa put in place in order to transition from being in a corporate role to becoming self-employed.
• Lived vs organisational experience for a career in D&I: Highlighting the importance of bringing strong transferable skills e.g. communication, stakeholder engagement etc into the D&I space.
• Supporting organisational change: How Lisa leverages her own personal and corporate experiences to support businesses and community groups to make changes.
• Focussing on the gains, rather than the losses: Lisa shares the decision-making processes that led to moving her family internationally twice over recent years.

 

More about Lisa

If you’d like more information about Lisa and her work, you can find it here:

thecultureministry.com

Join the Culture Club here.

Listen to the A Dog Called Diversity podcast.

Connect with Lisa on -

LinkedIn - @lisa-ann-mulligan

 

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