Lisa Griffiths

Lisa is a healthcare advisor and non-profit leader who lives in Ojai, California, with her wife and two children. She is passionate about social justice, customer experience and patient safety, health equity, and non-profit operations.

Lisa has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management with a thesis in transformative leadership, a BS in Conservation & Resource Studies from UC Berkeley, 20 years of project and team leadership, and has completed Coach U’s executive and life coach training program. She holds a Certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University (2020).  She loves engaged leadership, strategic planning, relationship-based process improvement, culture change, project management, being a part of the Ojai community and raising goats, chickens and happy kids.

Lisa’s professional experience includes corporate strategy and operations management with Deloitte Consulting, where she recruited and managed teams of up to 20+ and led complex process and operations improvement initiatives. Locally, Lisa works with Ventura County’s safety net providers of OB and Midwifery Services, Santa Paula Midwives and the Ventura County Health Care Agency where she previously served as Senior Administrator for Quality, Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance and Risk. Lisa founded and co-led the Ventura County Medical System’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) task force, initiated in 2020, aimed at improving health equity for patients and inclusive culture for the healthcare workforce. She has also been a long-time employee, volunteer and board member of local Planned Parenthood Affiliates, serving as Director of Change Initiatives and Administration for PPLA.  Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Lisa launched and operated Thrive Family Care Ojai, a licensed assisted living “board and care” home for seniors, founded in 2017.  She has led strategic planning projects for domestic organizations such as the MS Society, and Planned Parenthood, and International  organizations in rural Uganda (Kyetume) and Israel (MEET). 

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