Episode Details

"I realized I was allowing other people to be my source of confidence."

Lisa Shalett, co-founder of Extraordinary Women on Boards, joins host Alissa Hsu Lynch to talk about a career that spans equities, compliance, crisis communications, and the boardroom. A former Goldman Sachs partner, she spent twenty years at the firm reinventing herself across roles most people wouldn't have the courage to take, including managing Goldman's brand through one of the worst crises in Wall Street history. When she left, she turned her attention to a problem she kept hearing from women in boardrooms everywhere and, with her co-founder Lisa DeCarlo, built a 1,000+ member community to solve it, which grew entirely by word of mouth.

Don't miss this conversation about reinvention, confidence, and what it means to stop waiting for permission.

💡 Key Takeaways:

• If you don't tell your own story, others will tell it for you

• Agility is a skill, and steep learning curves are worth running toward

• The most important shift in Lisa's career came when she stopped looking to others for approval and became her own source of confidence

Connect with Lisa and EWOB:

Lisa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisashalett/ 

EWOB's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/extraordinary-women-on-boards/ 

EWOB's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewobnetwork/ 

Bruce Feiler's Book: A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World— and How It Can Save Us: https://a.co/d/0aTg2V9I 

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