Drawing out your best, leading to a better life and world.

Explore the world of Lisa Van Dusen. Lisa is a coach, practicing artist, and community leader. She’ll draw you out. She literally draws—she draws out your best as a coach and she draws out our community’s and world’s best as a social impact leader. 

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About Lisa Van Dusen

Lisa Van Dusen is community builder: a practicing artist, the creator and host of the interview series First Person, a civic engagement advocate and social impact innovator. As Executive Director of the Palo Alto Community Fund and previously as Chief Relationship Officer at SV2—Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, Lisa connects resources with opportunities so everyone can thrive. She is particularly passionate about the arts as a catalyst for social change and creating models and developing leaders for resilient communities in the face of climate change. 

A native Michigander, she has called Palo Alto home since the pre-internet era. Lisa first put down roots in Palo Alto as the founding executive director of Cable Co-op, and among other pursuits, went on to birth and lead Palo Alto Online, relaunch Leadership Palo Alto and hold numerous civic leadership roles in Silicon Valley. She serves on the board of WINGS Guatemala, is an advisor to WXR Venture Fund focused on women led Augmented/Virtual Reality, was a TEDx speaker in 2017 where she talked about "The Joys of Otherhood" and has been recognized as a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence in 2015. She graduated from Brown University.

Lisavandusen.com serves as a platform for her voracious curiosity, fearless question-asking, and desire to learn and leave things better than she found them. Find more about her non-linear career on LinkedIn. Lisa lives with her husband and loves hiking, gardening, drawing and spending time with their two adult sons and their families.

 
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