Where it began
Lisa Christen and Michelle Holmes are Executive Advisors to chief executives and executive teams. It is what brought them together over a decade ago: a shared understanding of critical leadership transitions, organisational transformation, and the moments where the answer is not yet obvious.
Lisa Christen
Lisa helps leaders solve what strategy can’t, elevating them at crucial moments like executive team performance and organisational transformations.
She has spent over a decade working with leaders at the top of global organisations, across Europe, the Middle East and the US, and knows what separates the leaders who deliver from the ones who don’t. Her work is grounded in neuroscience and the science of human performance. She has spoken in Davos during the World Economic Forum.
American-born and Zug-based, Lisa is known for her upbeat energy and continuous pursuit of innovation, which is why she’s excited to create the dynamic Unscripted space.
Professional Fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean / Harvard Medical School · 2026 Best Performance Coach by Spear’s Magazine · Forbes Coaches Council · Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen
Michelle Holmes
Michelle works alongside leaders at moments when the answers are rarely obvious: leadership transitions, strategic pivots, organisational tension and the conversations that determine what happens next.
For almost two decades she has worked with senior leaders across global organisations in Europe, Asia and the US, building long-term advisory relationships that give her a front-row seat to how leadership really happens, beyond the board paper, the town hall and the prepared answer.
Scottish-born and internationally minded, Michelle is known for asking the question others are thinking but have not yet put on the table, and for making the uncomfortable productive. That is precisely the kind of conversation she is bringing to Unscripted.
Founder and Managing Partner, Hercules Coaching · Keynote speaker · Certified HBDI practitioner · IMD