Lisa M. Ong, PCC, CPA, welcomes opportunities to serve on for-profit Boards in addition to speaking, consulting, and serving with national and global non-profits that value her CPA, HR, and DEI+Belonging lens.

She is an award-winning inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility (IDEA), and belonging strategy consultant, keynote speaker, and International Coach Federation (ICF) professional certified coach. As a widely known “talent gardener” and “inclusion connector,” companies hire her to support momentum for their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and as an executive coach and speaker for their leadership development programs.

Before launching Wishing Out Loud LLC, she was a national diversity director in PwC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, an HR director, and an audit senior manager. She earned her BBA in Accounting from UT Austin and her MS in Management from UT Dallas.  She is a professional certified coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation and a Texas certified public accountant (CPA).

D CEO Magazine named her to The Dallas 500 in its directories as “one of the most powerful business leaders in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex” for four years.  She led Team Wishing Out Loud to win The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Dallas 2023 Visionary of the Year Award. Dallas Business Journal awarded her a 2022 Leaders in Diversity Award.

Lisa is a Plano resident and member of the Orchid Giving Circle, the AICPA, TXCPA, the International Coach Federation, and The Society for Diversity. She serves as a Workplace Programs Advisory Board member for the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Inclusion, member of the Texas Society of CPAs Board Nominations Council and Board Development Committee, a Public Member of the Global Infusion Nurses Society Board, Executive Advisor and Lifetime member of the North Texas chapter of Ascend Leadership, and coaching faculty for The Forum on Workplace Inclusion, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) and SHRM Linkage Women in Leadership Institute.