Our Speaker
Lisa M. Ong, PCC, CPA, is an award-winning diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) strategy consultant, speaker, and professional certified executive coach. As a widely-known "talent gardener" and "inclusion connector,” organizations hire her to co-create and support momentum for their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and to serve as an executive coach for their leadership development programs.
Before launching Wishing Out Loud LLC, she was a national diversity director in PwC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, an HR director, and an audit senior manager. She earned her BBA in Accounting from UT Austin and her MS in Management from UT Dallas. D CEO Magazine named her to The Dallas 500 in their directories as "one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW" for three years. She led Team Wishing Out Loud to be recognized in Forbes as The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Dallas 2023 Visionary of the Year. Lisa serves on numerous boards in the CPA, coaching, infusion nursing professions, and organizations promoting DEIB.