Lisa Ong's guest appearances

Lisa Ong

Where Accountants Go - The Accounting Careers Podcast

BEYOND BARRIERS

Paid Vocation with Lupe Prado

Joey Ryan

Kara Goldin

Carrie Bradshaw

Eric Mack

Lisa Gates

David Peters

Stephen King

Ellen Bennett

Elisa Steele

Bill Schneider

Enrique Rubio

Steve Dawson

Ron Baker

Anthony Hanson

Jen Obermeier

OwlTail

Episode #24: This week on the podcast I am interviewing  Lisa Ong. Lisa is an award-winning diversity and inclusion strategy consultant, speaker, and professional certified executive coach.  As a widely-known "talent gardener" and "inclusion connector,” CEOs hire her to co-create their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy to cultivate belonging cultures as great places to work.  Before launching Wishing Out Loud LLC, she was a national diversity director in PwC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, an HR director, and a financial audit senior manager.  Dallas magazine, D CEO named her to The Dallas 500 in their 2021 and 2020 directories as "one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW" in the “Consultants” and "Corporate Diversity Officer" categories. She shares how she has been able to work in her vocation throughout her life and she also gives a lot of practical tips on how to stay connected with our network.   Lisa would also like to share her renewed purpose to ask others to help join efforts to stop bullying, racism and hate in all forms. The attacks and hate crime killings and abuse on the Asian community have been happening over a year in individual episodes and did not get wide attention until another killing spree. Please see the link to her recent LinkedIn Post. Can’t wait for you to listen! Connect with Lisa:  Instagram 

Episode #24: This week on the podcast I am interviewing  Lisa Ong. Lisa is an award-winning diversity and inclusion strategy consultant, speaker, and professional certified executive coach.  As a widely-known "talent gardener" and "inclusion connector,” CEOs hire her to co-create their diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy to cultivate belonging cultures as great places to work.  Before launching Wishing Out Loud LLC, she was a national diversity director in PwC’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, an HR director, and a financial audit senior manager.  Dallas magazine, D CEO named her to The Dallas 500 in their 2021 and 2020 directories as "one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW" in the “Consultants” and "Corporate Diversity Officer" categories. She shares how she has been able to work in her vocation throughout her life and she also gives a lot of practical tips on how to stay connected with our network.  Lisa would also like to share her renewed purpose to ask others to help join efforts to stop bullying, racism and hate in all forms. The attacks and hate crime killings and abuse on the Asian community have been happening over a year in individual episodes and did not get wide attention until another killing spree. Please see the link to her recent <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wishingoutloudllc_stopasianhate-ascendleadership-stopaapihate-activity-6778342709682855936-hKxX" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn Post</a>. Can’t wait for you to listen! Connect with Lisa: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wishingoutloud/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a></li> <li></li></ul>

The Art of Wishing out Loud | Lisa Ong

Do you secretly wish for things but don’t how to get them? Meet our guest, Lisa Ong, who shares the power of dreaming big and wishing out loud. Lisa Ong is widely known as a “talent gardener” and “inclusion connector”. Lisa is an executive coach, diversity strategist, and President &amp; Founder of Wishing Out Loud LLC. Lisa was formerly Diversity and Inclusion leader at PwC where she focused on minority retention and advancement, as well as growing inclusive leaders at all levels. In this episode, Lisa talks about how to discover your strengths, build your community of mentors and peers, and create opportunities to not only shine but, also to thrive in your career.   Highlights: [01:55] Lisa’s story [07:23] Switching lanes in your career [13:07] Showing up with confidence as a woman of color [18:05] Learning from failures and setbacks [23:56] Managing competing personal and profession priorities [28:54] The value of network and community   Quotes: “Knowing my top five strengths helped me determine whether I see myself in this current role in the future” – Lisa Ong “When I started to lean on the advice from my sponsors and really lean into it, I was actually able to accelerate my career.” – Lisa Ong “If you're thinking about what wild success would look like a year from now, you're more likely to achieve it. If you think the sky is falling, guess what, it probably will fall.” – Lisa Ong “When you ask for advice, you're appealing to your sense of gratitude for their wisdom and experience. And in the end, you will end up getting their help anyway.” – Lisa Ong “Turn off that negative voice in your head. And turn it up and say you're smart enough to figure this out.” – Lisa Ong “Confidence is how you show up.” – Lisa Ong  “If you're not having failures and setbacks, you're not learning and growing.” – Lisa Ong “A no is a no, not now. Not a no, not ever. But if you don't even ask, you're never going to get a yes.” – Lisa Ong   About Lisa Ong: Lisa Ong is an executive coach, speaker, diversity strategist and consultant. Lisa specializes in diversity and inclusion, leadership development, coaching and facilitation. Prior to founding Wishing Out Loud LLC, Lisa was a national diversity director in Diversity and Inclusion at PwC. She designed strategies to retain, develop and advance diverse talent. She focused on minority retention and advancement efforts as well as growing inclusive leaders at all levels. A widely known “talent gardener” and “Inclusion connector,” Lisa helps individuals to achieve goals with an emphasis on leadership skills leading to meaningful relationships. She shares her coaching approach with her clients to discover their strengths, dream big and keep strategically “wishing out loud” to create opportunities to shine and be their best. Lisa is a seasoned executive in business with a background in audits as well as senior human capital roles. Lisa earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Management degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a Texas Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by The International Coach Federation. She is certified in the Leadership Circle 360 tool. She also had her SPHR through 2015.  Lisa speaks on topics ranging from unconscious bias, bridging cultural differences, authentic leadership, building meaningful relationships, communicating with impact through storytelling and networking. Lisa serves on the board of the AICPA Council and the Texas Society of CPAs. She was past Chair of the Dallas chapter 2017-2018. She is an active Lifetime Member of Ascend, and served as an Executive Advisor to the North Texas Chapter from 2014-2019. She was named to The Dallas 500 in 2020 Directory by D CEO Magazine as “one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW” and awarded the 2019 CPA of the Year Award by the Dallas CPA Society. Dallas Business Journal also recognized her with a 2017 Minority Business Leaders Award for her leadership in business and the community. Wishing Out Loud LLC, 5760 Legacy Dr Ste B3-520, Plano, TX 75024 972-489-4576 www.wishingoutloud.com Instagram: @wishingoutloud   Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onglisam/ Website: http://wishingoutloud.com/ Instagram: @wishingoutloud Twitter: @Lisa_M_Ong

Do you secretly wish for things but don’t how to get them? Meet our guest, Lisa Ong, who shares the power of dreaming big and wishing out loud. Lisa Ong is widely known as a “talent gardener” and “inclusion connector”. Lisa is an executive coach, diversity strategist, and President &amp; Founder of Wishing Out Loud LLC. Lisa was formerly Diversity and Inclusion leader at PwC where she focused on minority retention and advancement, as well as growing inclusive leaders at all levels. In this episode, Lisa talks about how to discover your strengths, build your community of mentors and peers, and create opportunities to not only shine but, also to thrive in your career. Highlights: [01:55] Lisa’s story [07:23] Switching lanes in your career [13:07] Showing up with confidence as a woman of color [18:05] Learning from failures and setbacks [23:56] Managing competing personal and profession priorities [28:54] The value of network and community Quotes: “Knowing my top five strengths helped me determine whether I see myself in this current role in the future” – Lisa Ong “When I started to lean on the advice from my sponsors and really lean into it, I was actually able to accelerate my career.” – Lisa Ong “If you're thinking about what wild success would look like a year from now, you're more likely to achieve it. If you think the sky is falling, guess what, it probably will fall.” – Lisa Ong “When you ask for advice, you're appealing to your sense of gratitude for their wisdom and experience. And in the end, you will end up getting their help anyway.” – Lisa Ong “Turn off that negative voice in your head. And turn it up and say you're smart enough to figure this out.” – Lisa Ong “Confidence is how you show up.” – Lisa Ong  “If you're not having failures and setbacks, you're not learning and growing.” – Lisa Ong “A no is a no, not now. Not a no, not ever. But if you don't even ask, you're never going to get a yes.” – Lisa Ong About Lisa Ong: Lisa Ong is an executive coach, speaker, diversity strategist and consultant. Lisa specializes in diversity and inclusion, leadership development, coaching and facilitation. Prior to founding Wishing Out Loud LLC, Lisa was a national diversity director in Diversity and Inclusion at PwC. She designed strategies to retain, develop and advance diverse talent. She focused on minority retention and advancement efforts as well as growing inclusive leaders at all levels. A widely known “talent gardener” and “Inclusion connector,” Lisa helps individuals to achieve goals with an emphasis on leadership skills leading to meaningful relationships. She shares her coaching approach with her clients to discover their strengths, dream big and keep strategically “wishing out loud” to create opportunities to shine and be their best. Lisa is a seasoned executive in business with a background in audits as well as senior human capital roles. Lisa earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science in Management degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a Texas Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by The International Coach Federation. She is certified in the Leadership Circle 360 tool. She also had her SPHR through 2015.  Lisa speaks on topics ranging from unconscious bias, bridging cultural differences, authentic leadership, building meaningful relationships, communicating with impact through storytelling and networking. Lisa serves on the board of the AICPA Council and the Texas Society of CPAs. She was past Chair of the Dallas chapter 2017-2018. She is an active Lifetime Member of Ascend, and served as an Executive Advisor to the North Texas Chapter from 2014-2019. She was named to The Dallas 500 in 2020 Directory by D CEO Magazine as “one of the most powerful business leaders in DFW” and awarded the 2019 CPA of the Year Award by the Dallas CPA Society. Dallas Business Journal also recognized her with a 2017 Minority Business Leaders Award for her leadership in business and the community. Wishing Out Loud LLC, 5760 Legacy Dr Ste B3-520, Plano, TX 75024 972-489-4576 <a href="http://www.wishingoutloud.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.wishingoutloud.com</a> Instagram: @wishingoutloud Links: LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/onglisam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/onglisam/</a> Website: <a href="http://wishingoutloud.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wishingoutloud.com/</a> Instagram: @wishingoutloud Twitter: @Lisa_M_Ong

Episode 26: Dreaming Big And Wishing Out Loud with Lisa Ong

Lisa M. Ong from PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Office of Diversity joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting, The Where Accountants Go podcast.Career and so much moreWe started this interview as we always do – discussing our guest’s career journey from the time they decided to become an accountant up to the present day. However, I got much more than I anticipated with Lisa. We get into some depth on diversity and how it is truly more than just numbers.Lisa recounts the story of how she initially was interested in accounting because it is “the language of business.” She enjoyed learning how businesses worked and therefore audit seemed like it would be a good fit. After interviewing with all of the Big 4 firms, she chose to accept the offer from PwC because she felt it matched her interests the best.Harness the power of wishing out loudLisa attributes many of the opportunities that she has been fortunate to have to the practice of “wishing out loud”. You’ll need to listen to the audio interview to get the full meaning of this concept, but it obviously has worked well for Lisa. She’s had a variety of opportunities with PwC and has thoroughly enjoyed her career path.College credit for this podcast?Lisa gets into enough depth on topics such as the Gardenswartz &amp; Rowe Diversity Wheel and blindspots training that you’ll feel like you’ve attended a brief but interesting lecture. It’s clear that she truly is very knowledgeable in the area of diversity in the workplace. She shares PwC’s online resource on blindspots training with us as well – https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/blind-spots.htmlI hope you enjoy this episode! You can definitely tell Lisa has a passion for her role there at PwC.Mark Goldman CPAPresident – Where Accountants Gowww.WhereAccountantsGo.comEnjoyed the episode but haven’t subscribed? Click the orange ‘subscribe’ button – https://whereaccountantsgo.com/blog/ – to be notified first of new Life In Accounting content!

Lisa M. Ong from PriceWaterhouseCooper’s Office of Diversity joined us for this week’s episode of Life In Accounting, The Where Accountants Go podcast. Career and so much more We started this interview as we always do – discussing our guest’s career journey from the time they decided to become an accountant up to the present day. However, I got much more than I anticipated with Lisa. We get into some depth on diversity and how it is truly more than just numbers. Lisa recounts the story of how she initially was interested in accounting because it is “the language of business.” She enjoyed learning how businesses worked and therefore audit seemed like it would be a good fit. After interviewing with all of the Big 4 firms, she chose to accept the offer from PwC because she felt it matched her interests the best. Harness the power of wishing out loud Lisa attributes many of the opportunities that she has been fortunate to have to the practice of “wishing out loud”. You’ll need to listen to the audio interview to get the full meaning of this concept, but it obviously has worked well for Lisa. She’s had a variety of opportunities with PwC and has thoroughly enjoyed her career path. College credit for this podcast? Lisa gets into enough depth on topics such as the Gardenswartz &amp; Rowe Diversity Wheel and blindspots training that you’ll feel like you’ve attended a brief but interesting lecture. It’s clear that she truly is very knowledgeable in the area of diversity in the workplace. She shares PwC’s online resource on blindspots training with us as well – <a href="https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/blind-spots.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/blind-spots.html</a> I hope you enjoy this episode! You can definitely tell Lisa has a passion for her role there at PwC. Mark Goldman CPA President – Where Accountants Go <a href="http://www.WhereAccountantsGo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.WhereAccountantsGo.com</a> Enjoyed the episode but haven’t subscribed? Click the orange ‘subscribe’ button – <a href="https://whereaccountantsgo.com/blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://whereaccountantsgo.com/blog/</a> – to be notified first of new Life In Accounting content!

054: Lisa Ong, CPA – National Director with PwC’s Office of Diversity