After decades spearheading groundbreaking initiatives in education, Alisha De Lorenzo has emerged as a guiding force in reshaping the way schools cut through the noise, lean into positive disruption, and solve for the disengagement, disconnection, disparities, and declining morale plaguing our communities. Alisha has come to believe that the only way we fight overwhelm and burnout is not lowering our standards or doing less, rather, unleashing the next level of aliveness in our people. An acclaimed international speaker, award winning educator and therapist, Alisha has shared her thought leading insights and frameworks with over 250 thousand educators from the U to Africa. Her work has been featured on PBS, NBC and NJ Spotlight News, while her influence has earned her recognition from the NJ Department of Education, Monmouth University, community agencies and government officials. In 2003, she received the prestigious Ernest L. Boyer Outstanding Educator Award from NJASCD. Alisha’s profound understanding of the human spirit sets the foundation for schools to unlock innovation, differentiation, and growth to drive engagement, productivity and high performance. Stepping into the realm of the extraordinary requires all of us to create cultures where people feel seen, heard, and valued and this is the foundation to the aliveness we all seek.