PROFILE
Lisa Leong is an acclaimed ABC broadcaster, author and skilled facilitator. Her superpowers are curiosity, creativity and delivering key messages by way of song.
A former Intellectual Property, Technology and Wine lawyer (yes, there is such a thing!), Lisa caught the radio bug in 2001 volunteering on Hospital Radio in London (yes, this is also such a thing!!). Lisa was accepted into the Australian Film Television and Radio School and then followed her radio dream, doing a stint on commercial radio stations on the Gold Coast and Adelaide, before joining the ABC 20 years ago, presenting the breakfast show for the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Lisa currently presents Sundays on ABC Radio Melbourne and hosts This Working Life on ABC Radio National.
Lisa is a Zen Meditation & Qi Gong Practitioner, and draws on her unique career experiences combined with Design Thinking and mindfulness practices to bring a fresh approach to conversations and connection. Her work has been the subject of a Harvard Law case study, received numerous awards, and inspired Lisa's TEDx Melbourne talk, "Can robots make us more human?"
Previously, Lisa was a non-executive director for Radio Lollipop Australia, a children’s charity providing radio for sick children in hospital – and is currently on the board of Ormond College, at the University of Melbourne.
(Photograph credit to Rebecca Taylor)
