Lisa Scott
Communication strategist. Executive communication coach.
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Lisa helps scientists, engineers, researchers, and technical leaders communicate complex work with clarity and authority when decisions are on the line.
30+ years of clinical and strategic experience • CCC-SLP
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 Lisa Scott is a nationally certified speech-language pathologist, communication strategist, and executive communication coach based in Knoxville, Tennessee. She brings more than 30 years of experience in communication, and since 2009 has worked with technical and clinical leaders at national laboratories, research institutions, and healthcare organizations.
Her work brings together speech science, cognitive neuroscience, and strategic communication to help complex expertise become clear, credible, and actionable.
Lisa began with accent clarity, helping internationally trained professionals be understood without asking them to erase who they are. As her work expanded into technical presentations, executive briefings, grant defenses, and leadership communication, the same pattern appeared again and again: important expertise was not fully reaching the people responsible for acting on it.Â
That is the problem her frameworks, coaching, and workshops are built to solve.Â
Lisa B. Scott
Communication Strategist & Executive Coach
CCC-SLP (ASHA) • Certified Compton P-ESL Accent Modification InstructorÂ
Speaking Engagements
- PharmSci360
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
- Â Women in Statistics and Data Science
- American Society for Engineering Management
- Project Management Institute
- DIA Global - Drug Information Association
- TeamHealth
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The nautilus has been one of Lisa’s symbols since childhood. Its layered form reflects a belief that communication is judged from the outside in, while real development happens from the inside out.Â
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The work and the travel are the same practice.
Noticing what others walk past.Â
Knowing what to do with it.
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She studies the way people communicate as closely as she examines a doorway: for the detail that changes the whole picture.
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Outside the office, Lisa is grounded by contrast. Travel and new cultures light her up, and so does sitting quietly by her koi pond with morning coffee before the day begins. She grew up in Virginia Beach, where she once literally sold seashells by the seashore. These days she is landlocked in Tennessee, but the ocean still calls her back.
