Lisa Hellmann

Lisa Hellmann is the Chief People Officer of Kotter International, a firm with a vision as bold as it is simple: Millions leading, billions benefiting. By teaching others to transform their organizations, we create more leadership from more people – unlocking the potential for a thriving world.

Her passion for leading change through dynamic growth spans a career beginning in Global Change Management at Accenture. Early success in consultative leadership fueled Lisa’s ability to drive organizational excellence through more than two decades of human resources leadership roles in global, high-growth medical technology companies. Before joining the Kotter team, Lisa led enterprise people strategies for Hologic Inc., a global medical technology provider focused on women’s health and medical devices as Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources and Corporate Communications. Prior to her role at Hologic, Lisa led Human Resources for organizations facing transformational change: Navican Genomics enabling the precision cancer therapy organization to scale from 5 to more than 200 professionals in six months; Cytori Therapeutics Inc. a clinical-stage organization challenged to grow in anticipation of a commercial launch and later retrenching in response to disappointing clinical trial outcomes; Millennium Health, a fast-growing, founder-led start-up requiring leadership development, processes, and systems to enable the company to thrive at scale; and Gen-Probe/Hologic a global medical technology company formed through a transformational integration of two distinct cultures and businesses.

Lisa earned the Global Executive Master in Human Resource Leadership Certificate from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology, with a concentration in Psychology of Learning from Stanford. Lisa has a lifelong commitment to the power of education; she has lived in San Diego for 25 years, raising her two children and enjoying the outdoors and involvement in the community.

City Heights Preparatory Charter School