About Alisa

Where Executive Experience Meets Coaching Precision

The Numbers Behind the Impact

7,500+

Coaching
Hours

Coaching Hours

250+

Workshops
Delivered

Across sectors nationwide

30+

Years Leadership Experience

Fortune 100 leadership depth

06

Leadership
Awards

Corporate & Community

04

Global Coaching Regions

US · Nigeria · Norway · China

150+

Global Coaching Regions

US · Nigeria · Norway · China

Alisa Atkinson McDonald

Transformational Executive Coach · Leadership Consultant · Founder, Renew Your Perspective LLC

Alisa Atkinson McDonald is a transformational executive coach and organizational leadership consultant who helps leaders turn strategy into sustained performance.

With more than 30 years of Fortune 100 leadership experience and a national consulting footprint, Alisa partners with leaders to navigate complexity, strengthen culture, and drive measurable results. She has led multiple departments, managed multi-million-dollar budgets, guided enterprise transformation. Today, she brings that executive depth to coaching and consulting engagements across government, healthcare, nonprofit, and corporate organizations.

As Founder of Renew Your Perspective, Alisa designs leadership academies, facilitates engagement initiatives, and provides executive coaching to accelerate clarity, accountability, and alignment. A Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), she equips leaders to lead with confidence, emotional intelligence, and strategic focus.

Her work builds high-trust cultures where people thrive — and performance follows.

How Alisa Is Wired to Lead

As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Alisa brings her own strengths DNA to every engagement creating deeply authentic partnerships grounded in how she naturally thinks, works, and leads.

Achiever [Executing]

Intense drive, stamina, and a profound need for accomplishment. Alisa works hard and takes deep satisfaction in doing so — modelling the standard she expects.

Relator
[Relationship Building]

Intense drive, stamina, and a profound need for accomplishment. Alisa works hard and takes deep satisfaction in doing so — modelling the standard she expects.

Discipline [Executing]

Intense drive, stamina, and a profound need for accomplishment. Alisa works hard and takes deep satisfaction in doing so — modelling the standard she expects.

Focus [Executing]

Intense drive, stamina, and a profound need for accomplishment. Alisa works hard and takes deep satisfaction in doing so — modelling the standard she expects.

Learner
[Strategic Thinking]

Intense drive, stamina, and a profound need for accomplishment. Alisa works hard and takes deep satisfaction in doing so — modelling the standard she expects.

What Clients Are Saying

Hear from those who have transformed their lives and businesses

Dahlia Sutrisno

Executive Coach & Senior Organizational Development Consultant

Alisa is the real deal — a trusted advisor, always organized yet never limited by convention. There is no fluff — just genuine commitment to shared success.”

Jennifer Spitzer

TMM Direct – Full Service Direct Mail

Her coaching is insightful, practical, and powerful. She is the kind of leader who not only gets things done but uplifts everyone around her.”

Dahlia Sutrisno

Executive Coach & Senior Organizational Development Consultant

Alisa is the real deal — a trusted advisor, always organized yet never limited by convention. There is no fluff — just genuine commitment to shared success.”

Jennifer Spitzer

TMM Direct – Full Service Direct Mail

Her coaching is insightful, practical, and powerful. She is the kind of leader who not only gets things done but uplifts everyone around her.”

Certifications & Credentials

Professional Certified Coach

International Coaching Federation

Certified Strengths Coach

Clifton Strengths

Listening
Intelligence

Certified Coach

Certified Master
Executive Coach

Executive Coaching

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Whether you are stepping into a new leadership role, guiding your organization through change, or ready to build the leadership culture your team deserves — this is where the next chapter begins.