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Lisha Wentworth, a senior associate for O&A, first joined the firm in 1988 and trains and
consults nationally with O&A’s Fortune 1,000 clients. Lisha’s responsibilities also include
presenting at corporate IT retreats/events and facilitating O&A’s workshop certification
programs.

Lisha is an experienced IT instructor, course developer, and consultant in the areas of IT customer service, internal consulting, negotiating/communicating, and marketing. She has been a keynote speaker for companies such as American Family Insurance, Bayer Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, and New York Life, and has been a guest lecturer in England and Spain on topics relating to future IT strategies.

Clients invite Lisha back year after year because of her energy, humor, and ability to connect with and engage an audience. She effectively leverages her real-world IT experience and subject matter expertise to motivate IT professionals at all levels to change how they work and partner with
business partners (and each other).

Prior to joining O&A, Lisha served as a Project Manager at a nationally known health insurance provider. There, she coordinated and managed a company-wide initiative to strengthen the corporate data capabilities, resulting in the development of a new data warehouse.

Prior to that, she worked for a large New England insurance company, where she was instrumental in designing, implementing, and promoting an Information Center to support end-user computing throughout the entire organization. During her several years as an internal consultant, she worked with a broad range of clients using both mainframe and PC tools. Her major responsibilities included developing and delivering educational programs, identifying critical applications for clients, providing strategic consulting services, and developing several creative marketing efforts.

Lisha collaborated with other O&A consultants to write Leading IT Transformation: The Roadmap for Success, a must-read book for IT leaders, launched in September, 2008.

She has been quoted in a number of publications, including Computerworld
(“Negotiations” – 2007) and CIO Magazine (“Inside an IT Marketing Campaign” – 2006).