Lisa Zweber-Smith serves as the Vice
President, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy for MGM Resorts International
where she uses her Organization Development expertise and systems thinking to
drive behavior change leading to increased engagement, customer satisfaction
and profitability. She is passionate about driving productive change through
the application of cutting edge approaches that produce lasting impact. After
spending more than a decade working in a variety of multi-national
organizations all over the world, Lisa launched her own consulting firm that
she successfully ran for more than 10 years, consulting to a variety of Fortune
500 companies on building leadership capability and increasing organizational
efficiency and effectiveness.
As co-author of the Implementation Effectiveness Handbook, Lisa
shared her expertise on implementing large scale change projects and building
change capability. In her current role at MGM Resorts International, she brings
her extensive OD, change management and leadership development experience to
the field of Diversity & Inclusion where she is focused on building an
inclusive environment where leaders attract, select, develop, evaluate and
retain diverse talent.
Lisa holds an MSOD from the
Grazadio Business School at Pepperdine University, an MA in HRD/OD from the
University of St. Thomas and a BS in Business Administration. She is currently
pursuing her PhD in Organization Behavior, where the focus of her research is
building an inclusive environment. Lisa has taught Change Leadership in the
Executive MBA program at Notre Dame, Diversity & Inclusion at UNLV and
currently serves as adjunct faculty for Pepperdine University, helping to
prepare the OD consultants of the future.
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