Lisa Taylor is a sought-after expert, speaker, and columnist on today’s changing world of work. As Founder and CEO of Challenge Factory, Lisa offers invaluable leadership and insights about the Future of Work—with a focus on how talent equity, demographics, and new market dynamics present opportunities to gain strategic workforce and career advantage.  

After receiving her MBA in Strategic Management and Public Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University, Lisa held progressive roles at Deloitte and Hewlett-Packard. Lisa has been recognized by the Urban Land Institute as one of Canada’s Top 100 Women for her work in leadership, employment, and city building. She has also been named as one of Career Professionals of Canada’s Outstanding Career Leader. In 2022, Lisa was named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Women by WXN.  

With a successful career in the corporate sector under her belt, Lisa realized that she wanted to focus full-time on shaping the Future of Work and Canada’s approach to career development. She founded Challenge Factory and the Centre for Career Innovation to make her passion a reality, and quickly got to work helping her clients find creative solutions to today’s most pressing career and workforce challenges. A key part of Lisa’s success is her ability to blend together a variety of disciplines—including scientific inquiry, career and identity theory, and military crisis management—to identify the best pathways through crisis, disruption, and uncertainty.  

Lisa is the co-author of The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work, The Canadian Guide to Hiring Veterans, and author of the Career Development and the Future of Work: A Conversation Guide, and the Retain and Gain series of career management playbooks for small businesses, non-profits and charities, and the public sector. Her expertise is widely recognized in The Globe and Mail, The Wall Street Journal, CBC, TVO, and other major outlets.  

Lisa is an Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing, Toronto Metropolitan University, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Regiment Association.  

She is a member of the Canadian Council for Career Development’s Standards and Guidelines stakeholder committee, and a representative for Team Canada with the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy.