Lisa Messenger
Best selling author, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Collective Hub
Profile
Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub, an international speaker, best-selling author, and an authority on disruption.
She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013, with no experience in an industry that people said was either dead or dying. Within 18 months that print mag was in 37 countries. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and education – all of which serve to ignite human potential.
Current Work:
Five years and 54 issues into the print magazine Lisa made the courageous move to “break” the very thing that she started enabling her to iterate and pivot into something far more sustainable and vast reaching. Lisa’s experience has seen her produce over 400 custom-published books for companies and individuals as well as having authored and co-authored 28 herself.
Most notably, Lisa chartered her ride to success with her bestselling book Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur and its sequels Life & Love: Creating the Dream, which reached number-one on Booktopia; Money & Mindfulness: Living in Abundance, that shot to best-selling status within the first month; Breakups & Breakthroughs: Turn an Ending Into a Beginning. She then wrote Purpose and Risk & Resilience – the Breaking and Remaking a Brand.
In 2020, Messenger is again bucking the status quo to explore how you can be at the top of your game – without an office or a cubicle in sight. Her eighth book in the series Work from Wherever: How to set yourself free (and still achieve) details in her classically candid style how the entrepreneur and fast-talking founder of the Collective Hub has rebounded and rebranded, after breaking and remaking the business of her dreams. She is currently highly sought after as she is about 730 days ahead of most who have been turbocharged unwittingly into this new “work from home” lifestyle.
Ultimately, Lisa’s passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to get out of their comfort zones, find their purpose, change the way they think, and to prove there’s more than one way to do anything. She encourages creativity, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit, and lives life to the absolute max. Most mornings she wakes up and pinches herself at how incredible her life is, but is also acutely aware and honest about life’s bumps and tumbles along the way.
With fans including Sir Richard Branson and New York Times best-selling author Bradley Trevor Greive, and a loyal fan base of close to a million followers across her combined social channels, Lisa’s vision is to build a community of like-minded people who want to change the world for the better. She leads by example, using herself as a conduit and everyday living her life out loud showing that anything truly is possible.
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Feedback
“Lisa Messenger is the best speaker we have ever had here in Townsville, ridiculously amazing! She was authentic and genuine, spent so much time getting to know each and every person who wanted a photo or book signed and was so easy to deal with. Everyone was super impressed with her and learnt a lot from her presentation.”
I have been a fan of Lisa’s since the beginning of Collective Hub I am proud to say, so it was my goal to get Lisa to AFF one way or the other, mainly to expose the Adelaide business and creative audiences to who I see as one of Australia’s leading female powerhouse game changers. The greatest thing about spending time with Lisa is she is real, raw, honest and fun, but mostly she walks the talk. It was the best start to AFF16 we could have hoped for and have had such brilliant feedback, SO next year we hope to have Lisa here longer!
Lisa recently opened our inaugural innovation hack and was nothing short of inspiring. Lisa spoke with genuine passion and from the heart, and gave a candid insight in the highs and lows of the life of an entrepreneur. Her energy was contagious and she had the room captivated. Lisa was without doubt a highlight of the event and perfectly set the tone for the day.
It was such a pleasure having Lisa speak at the breakfast launch of Love Mercy Foundation’s 20x2020 initiative at The Star in March. Lisa brought energy and enthusiasm to the morning and was a great ambassador for the women we seek to empower in northern Uganda. I’m looking forward to working with Lisa again in the future so that together we can empower 20,000 women to create their own livelihoods by the year 2020.
Lisa Messenger was the first speaker up at our event and was fantastic at motivating and engaging the audience. Her presentation was singled out by the attendees as getting them to question their why and purpose as they progress in their careers.
The women of C3 Church and beyond were thrilled to host and hear from Lisa Messenger at this year's Everywoman Gathering.
Lisa's words challenged, inspired, amused and educated our ladies on entrepreneurship - a world with which she is very familiar after bringing her now-nationally renowned magazine, The Collective Hub, from conceptualisation to actuality.
With smarts and style in spades, her appearance at our annual gathering proves that she remains a force to be reckoned with!
Lisa is a sassy and engaging speaker, who is gifted in storytelling. Her ability to create a narrative for csuite executives, clearly demonstrating how her unique story provides learning for all types and sizes of businesses, is to be commended. We can't wait to leverage Lisa again in future events.
Lisa's energy, professionalism and knowledge was a winning combination to making this one of the best events we've had. Her passion to do more, try more and never give up was an inspiration to many in the room. Everyone was captivated by her positive energy!
We have used Lisa Messenger as a speaker & host at a number of our events. Lisa has amazing energy & brings a wonderful level of enthusiasm & professionalism to all of her engagements.
