Luisa Surma

“Luisa is truly one-of-a-kind. Throughout your career you will come across few people who are truly exceptional, but Luisa hits the mark. Not only is she an incredibly likable and kind person, she has an energy that radiates and can completely fill a room almost instantly. I first met Luisa during an onboarding training for a sales position at a start-up company. I could tell she was an educator at heart by the way she listened and presented material and ideas. She wasn't just training new employees, she was helping each of us individually build a pathway to success. Luisa is a true innovator. She excels at taking complex ideas and breaking them down so they are digestible and accessible. She can tackle any complex problem by simplifying it and making the task of addressing the issues feel totally manageable. She can focus on the tasks at hand while also thinking forward and beyond "right now" to "what could be". She believes that we all have room for growth, and finds positive ways to nurture that desire to be better. This makes her special, and is a level of social and emotional awareness that elevates her ability to communicate to an exceptional level. I'm fortunate to have met and worked with Luisa, and still implement her tips, tricks, and advice in my professional and personal life today! If you're looking for someone to level-up your organization, bring fresh ideas to the table, identify opportunities for growth and help you work towards them, and bring a positive and fun energy to your company culture, Luisa is your gal!”

“I have had the pleasure to work with Luisa at two vastly different companies and she always brings her absolute best to every high stakes decision, meeting, project and priority we’ve worked on together. When Luisa is at the table, everyone eats - all voices are heard - work is optimized - outcomes are exceeded. Luisa is a do-er! She builds, owns, influences, guides, commits, and reflects on every aspect of her programmatic work, always looking to elevate and improve the processes and people around her. She is unquestionably one the strongest, most charismatic leaders I have ever worked with throughout my career. She knows how to motivate teams and get the best from all she works with, not without a joke or a teachable moment to boot. Moreover, Luisa is acutely aware of her own strengths and the superpowers of others, making her a masterful choreographer of talent who can drive teams to execute any daunting milestone with velocity. Coupled with her leadership skills, Luisa is the ultimate coach and teacher. In our work together, Luisa deconstructed the most complex of cross-team projects to build a scalable solution and scaffold the work in a way that anyone from the newest team member to the most seasoned leader can understand and execute against in record time. Luisa is a pace-setter, a phenomenal coach, a brilliant communicator, and an outcome-oriented leader, but what Ms. Surma lacks is ego. Luisa asks nothing that she isn’t willing to do herself, always getting her hands dirty with an outcome in mind, and a twinkle in her eye. I can only hope to get a third opportunity to work with such a rare talent and truly remarkable woman.”