Lisa Nabors is a co-founder and partner with Strategic Performance Group and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a professional certified coach (PCC). Nabors is a sought-after speaker, presenting on the topic of coaching to industry and professional groups. She began coaching while pursuing a 16-year stint as a senior-level human resource and training and development professional in private industry. Her passion is optimizing individual, team, and organization performance across a diverse spectrum of professional environments. Her coaching clients include managers, executives, and teams in organizations such as AARP, American Institute of Architects, Council of Better Business Bureaus, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nabors’ expertise includes gathering and optimizing data to cut to the core issues, help clients consider choices, and create action plans designed to achieve measurable results.

Nabors is a certified user of all Center for Creative Leadership 360-degree feedback instruments, the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360, Leadership Practices Inventory, the Team Emotional Social Intelligence Survey (TESI), the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO-B, and many other customized instruments. Nabors earned her bachelor of arts and master of education degrees from the University of Maryland, where she also completed doctoral-level coursework on leadership effectiveness.

In 2007, she served as subject matter expert and editor for the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Coaching Certificate Program and co-authored its redesign in 2013. She has facilitated the program nationally and internationally and helped create the online version. She is an adjunct faculty member for Marymount University and she is the co-author of Dialogue Deck, Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model, and Organizational Coaching: Building Relationships and Programs That Drive Results.