Workplace Solutions

Specialties

Workplace Solutions is a career consulting and executive coaching firm. I help people make career decisions, become better professionals, determine what they want to do for second careers and what they want to do to add meaning and purpose in their lives. Everyone has a purpose in life and I help people find out what that purpose might be.

Resume Design | LinkedIn Profiles | Interview Boot Camps | Intensive Interview Preparation

Confidence Building | 360 Feedback Surveys | Executive Coaching | Job Decisions | Networking Strategies | Career Fair Strategies

History

Established in 1998.

In 1998, I left GTE Telecommunications (Verizon) to start my own human resources consulting practice. I needed more flexibility while raising a family. After nine years, I felt pulled towards Positive Psychology — the scientific study of positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement.

This degree (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) and my hands-​on business experience as a certified HR professional, uniquely qualifies me to help others make thoughtful career decisions.

Meet the Business Owner

Lisa J.

Business Owner

After 15 years in the world of corporate human resources, I founded Workplace Solutions (1998) as a solution to my own career issue: the need for balance and flexibility in my professional and family lives. I’m a natural entrepreneur and successfully transitioned my HR career at Verizon (GTE) to launch Workplace Solutions, a human resources consulting practice. My consulting services was supported by anchor clients such as Bell South International and Coca-​Cola Enterprises and Florida Progress. Nine years later, I grew restless with HR consulting and began to investigate yet another career change.

At 49, I made a pivotal turn in my career trajectory. I commuted from Tampa to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program. This master level degree focuses on the study of what makes life worthwhile. With the addition of this credential, my career consulting business was born of years of practical business experiences, multiple p