Soaringwords’ mission is to inspire ill children and their families to take active roles in self-healing. Soaringwords provides fun, creative and educational activities both in person and online based on Positive Psychology concepts that enhance well-being. Each year, 22 million children in the U.S. suffer from chronic or serious illness. Soaringwords is unique as the only organization to motivate ill children and families to “pay it forward” to help others. Soaringwords also leads programs to benefit adults grappling with challenges. To date, Soaringwords has embraced more than 500,000 people who are grappling with illness. Soaringwords codified its unique approach into a scientific model called SOARING into Strength in order to enhance the well-being of patients, families and caregivers. This evidence-based model has been tested among thousands of patients worldwide. Lisa has pioneered a best-in class, award-winning employee-engagement model that has been shared with more than 150,000 professionals at Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Eli Lilly, Facebook, Google, JetBlue, Johnson & Johnson, New York Life, Sony, Verizon, and Viacom. Lisa is the author of SOARING into Strength a memoir that details Lisa's three experiences with death and illness that occurred in her family in ten-months. Each chapter showcases compelling stories of people who best embody the SOARING into Strength approaches.