(Translation) In difficult economic conditions, we had to orient ourselves to make progress quickly in unfamiliar markets. Without a doubt, the session you led helped our managers face our change more positively and also to help them along the majority of their employees.  The techniques taught in French by Ms. Koss and her colleague are simple and effective. They are now part of our DNA.

Dans une conjoncture économique difficile, nous avons dû nous réorienter rapidement pour progresser dans de nouveaux marchés.  La formation a permis sans aucun doute à nos cadres d’affronter de façon plus positive ce changement de direction et aussi d’entrainer le plus grand nombre de nos employés avec eux. Les techniques enseignées par Mme Koss et son collaborateur en Français sont simples et efficaces. Elles font aujourd’hui partie de notre ADN.

Francois Audo, Président Directeur Général
Director, Europe South Region
Xylem Inc.

We engaged Ontos to work with us to design a unique session for a group of leaders in the midst of a cultural shift in our organization.  Throughout the planning and design of the session, Ontos was an excellent partner who got to know us and our culture, to understand us and challenge us.  Most appreciated beyond their expertise is their active collaboration to find the right solution and flexibility to respond to changing circumstances.  They provided a dynamic facilitation team for each session.  Participants left feeling energized and engaged in taking the next steps forward in our culture journey.

Leadership Learning Leader
Fortune 10 Company

We asked you to coach a female, Senior Manager who comes from a different culture with the goal of catapulting her to her true potential and performance level to achieve Partner status at our firm.  The outcome of your coaching and advice led to a transformational change.  Her executive presence improved dramatically, improved and she now comes to work ready to conquer the world and she is consistently functioning at a stepped level of improvement.

Kevin Asher, Partner,  Assurance Services
Ernst and Young

Thunderbird Learning Consulting Network reached out to Lisa Koss because it needed Spanish-fluent consultants who were comfortable traveling to Latin America to conduct critical organizational and process-oriented interviews for one of our premier clients.Lisa’s superb interpersonal and cross-cultural skills allowed her to quickly master the performance and morale challenges facing the client’s Latin American division, gather the required information first-hand discretely, and help us compile the results in a methodical manner.She proved very effective in working seamlessly as part of our core team, both in helping to design interview approaches and in face-to-face meetings with the client in headquarters and in the field. Our findings drew strong reviews from our client, which has already engaged us for a follow-up assignment. Lisa’s contribution garnered specific praise from the client, who has asked that she be included in the follow-up.Lisa is very quick on her feet, has great facilitation skills, and is a strong team player who is always looking for winning solutions for the client. If you are looking for a deployable consultant who has strong cross-cultural and facilitation skills, you can’t do much better than to contact Lisa.

Thunderbird School of Global Management

I worked with Lisa for 13 months under an executive coach program. Lisa has been an exceptional coach who took the time to understand me as an individual, and helped identify areas to prepare me for the next level in my career. An important part of being a partner at EY is recognizing one’s personal leadership style as well as a personal brand, and for both of these, Lisa worked acted as my sounding board and helped guide me in taking small but very valuable steps towards the kind of leader I want to be. She invested the time in providing me feedback that I sought and was always very balanced in doing so which I appreciated very much. She was persistent and coached me on how to experiment in taking risks that required me to be outside of my comfort zone. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and learnt tremendously from each session.  By the end of our work together, I was also promoted to Partner level in the firm.

Anvita Sahai, Partner
Ernst & Young