Lisa Shalett
Founder
Extraordinary Women on Boards
Education
Harvard University
B.A., East Asian Studies
1988Harvard Business School
M.B.A.,
1993Podcasts
32:41172: What It’s Like To Work in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs w/ Lisa Shalett, Brookfield Asset Management [Main T4C episode]
Lisa Shalett is a Managing Partner & Head of Strategic Innovation at Brookfield Asset Management, a position she took after a year-long ‘retirement’ during which she advised startups and worked as an angel investor. Brookfield is an alternative asset management firm that focuses on long lasting investments in areas such..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“I ended up going to Japan and living just outside of Tokyo with a family that spoke no English. I spoke no Japanese, and it was a cross-cultural, phenomenal eye-opening experience that changed my life.”
Best Career Advice
“You set the tone …. And I think when people are in an organization, they always feel like they have so many layers to look up to and don’t necessarily feel like they’re an empowered leader.”
Career Challenge
“There was this one client that it took me a year to actually speak live to. And every day I would leave a voicemail for this client. The voicemail was limited to 60 seconds. You could rerecord it if you screwed up and inevitably got cut off mid-sentence, but I had to find a way to succeed with this client. So every day I would come in and try to leave the perfect 60-second voicemail.”
Skills
Board of Directors
Professional Interests
Tom Gardner, Larry Fink, Brené Brown, The Walt Disney Company, Goldman Sachs, Google, Risk, Audit, and Compliance Executives (RACE), SHRM Executive Network, Women on Boards (TGL), Harvard Innovation Labs, Harvard University, Harvard Business School
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