SUCCESS STORIES

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The success stories of my clients is my reward! I’ve had the pleasure of working with some fabulous organizations over the years. If you’re looking for a vast array of experience from the coach you hire, look no further!

Western Avenue District

In 2001, I was the marketing director for a local Oklahoma City restaurant group. We had purchased a white tablecloth restaurant off of Western Avenue, and I was in charge of developing a marketing plan. We didn’t have a lot of money like most locally owned restaurants. So, I started researching the area and found that ALL the restaurants were locally owned as well. I had the idea of forming a restaurant association for Western Avenue and invited all the local restaurants to come to a meeting so I could pitch an idea of a restaurant row. The concept was pretty simple: if we could combine our marketing dollars as a collective group, we’d have more money to market the area.

Not only did the restaurants want in, phone calls started pouring in from local businesses and property owners in the area…they wanted to be a part of this idea too. That’s when the Western Avenue District was formed. Almost 20 years later, I’ve developed a business improvement district on Western Avenue that continues to reinvest dollars into the beautification, security and marketing of the area.

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Broken Arrow Public Schools

Broken Arrow Public Schools is home to the largest high school in the state of Oklahoma. In December 2019, I had the opportunity to work with the district superintendent and her leadership team to launch a comprehensive college and career readiness initiative branded Project Pathways. Students are connected to a possible career path based on their personal interests, abilities and strengths as early as elementary school. My role was to build the launch plan, work with key team members to ensure messaging and branding was consistent, and plan the official launch with the local chamber of commerce.

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Oklahoma Quality Foundation

The Oklahoma Quality Foundation is the stepping stone for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Baldrige Award is the only formal recognition of performance excellence of both public and private U.S. organizations given by the President of the United States. This award is kind of like the Grammy Award of organizational excellence. I had the opportunity to work with high performing businesses and organizations in Oklahoma and helped guide them through the awards process…which was an extensive, highly rigorous process. During my tenure at the Foundation, I developed multiple funding streams for the organization, a statewide board of directors and launched various PR campaigns to promote our participating organizations. These organizations ranged from massive hospital systems to manufacturers to the career and technology education school system in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma State Department of Education

I worked as the Chief of Public Affairs and a cabinet level leader under the administration of State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister (2015-2019). I launched the administration’s initial strategic plan working with various departments in the agency and developed cross-functional teams to address the objectives we identified in our plan. I led all public-facing, large-scale events which included the annual EngageOK educator professional development conference (6,000+ attendees), Oklahoma’s Teacher of the Year program, and more. I’m most proud of the trauma informed conferences I produced for educators statewide. I connected our school districts to resources by identifying and working with other government agencies, tribal partners, faith based organizations and statewide non-profit organizations. This was a first for the agency, and I couldn’t be more thrilled by the thousands of Oklahoma school children who benefited from their schools connecting with partners who provided countless resources.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

“Heather brought new energy and a sense of urgency to our organization as we struggled to implement our strategic plan. She helped us to eliminate outside noise so we could focus on the necessary steps to move forward. Additionally, she connected us to the correct decision makers within organizations needed for us to fulfill our mission. Heather was a pleasure to work with, highly encouraging and pulled us together to align our work for the better! ”

“I have worked with Heather Lisle for over 17 years. Heather has an amazing work ethic and can help organizations think strategically better than anyone I have ever worked with. She is a stealth organizer, both with projects and people. Heather gets things done! No matter the task Heather takes it head on and manages to both solve problems and complete projects. I highly recommend Heather to any group, company or organization – you will not be disappointed! ”

“Heather is your choice to streamline your business or organization’s productivity. With many years of organizational and strategic planning experience, Heather will be able to identify your strengths and weaknesses to help you achieve your overall goals.”

"Heather Griswold Lisle is one of the brightest, most energetic and passionate people I know. And as an added bonus she is a lot of fun to be around! I've known Heather as a collaborator on various projects through her position at the Oklahoma State Department of Education and you would be hard pressed to find a harder working, more dedicated collaborator. What she says she does, when she said it would be done and with excellence. If you have a challenging project, a difficult assignment, or you're just having a tough day, get hold of Heather. She will take on the project, finish the assignment, and brighten your day--all before noon!"

"I highly recommend Heather Lisle for project management and strategic planning for your school district or business organization. Heather is highly organized, experienced and most importantly, confident in success. This confidence leads to confidence for the team and all staff involved. She is able to break down a very complex project into manageable taste and keep everyone on target to completion. Her experience in public relations leads to success in managing diverse groups of people and producing an end product or message that is received well by all demographic groups. She does all of this with a positive attitude and a smile on her face, even in times of great pressure. We will definitely continue to use Ms. Lisle for project management in the future."

“Working with Heather was a game changer for me. I am not exaggerating at all. Her suggestions for marketing my business are saving me a ton of time and money."

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