Industry: Risk Management & Leadership Consulting
Designation: Founder, Unearth | Creator, Risk Rebel Leadership Pathway
Country: Australia / Global
Company: Unearth
Impact: A best-selling author and speaker, she redefines risk as a strategic advantage, empowering leaders with frameworks like PROTECT and S4R, and inspiring global leaders to build organizations rooted in courage, care, and resilience.

Lisa Sisson | Redefining Risk Management into Strategic Advantage

A multifaceted expert, Lisa Sisson is a best-selling author, international speaker, founder of Unearth, and the creator of the Risk Rebel Leadership Pathway. Lisa is breaking boundaries in leadership and redefining what it means to lead with courage and conviction. As the founder of Unearth, her mission is simple: empowering leaders to see risk not as something to avoid, but as something to embrace and lead through boldly. She believes, “The leaders who master risk don’t just protect the house — they build its legacy.” 

Risk management is often reduced to tick-box compliance, creating barriers for innovation and engagement. But when leaders embrace a people-centric approach, risk shifts from a burden to a strategic advantage. “Risk is not a problem to solve — it’s a conversation to lead,” Lisa reflects. 

With frameworks like the PROTECT Framework and System4Risk (S4R), Lisa helps organisations turn uncertainty into strategic opportunity — creating environments where people feel safe to succeed. Her mission is grounded in care, courage, and conviction: to create a safer world, one organisation, one community, and one person at a time. “Risk management is leadership — the courage to act, the wisdom to adapt,” she adds. 

Lisa’s Amazon bestselling book “Risk Starts and Ends with People” became a rallying cry for leaders seeking to challenge outdated, compliance-heavy mindsets. And now, through her Risk Rebel Leadership Pathway program and forthcoming book “The Risk Rebel Playbook,” Lisa is taking her movement global — showing leaders that it’s not just about breaking the glass ceiling, it’s about rebuilding the room entirely.