About Lisa Conradi, Psy.D.

Helping leaders and organizations build healthier, more sustainable systems under stress and uncertainty.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist, speaker, consultant, and former executive leader with more than 20 years of experience supporting leaders, organizations, and systems navigating trauma, complexity, burnout, organizational change, and high emotional demand.

My work integrates trauma-informed leadership, organizational psychology, nervous-system awareness, reflective practice, and systems thinking to help leaders and organizations strengthen belonging, psychological safety, trust, communication, and sustainable leadership within complex human systems.

As the creator of The Leadership House Framework™, I help leaders and organizations better understand how stress, uncertainty, trauma exposure, and organizational dynamics shape culture, communication, decision-making, and relational health over time.

Professional Background

Before founding Lisa Conradi, LLC, I served as Executive Director of the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego — one of the nation’s earliest and largest children’s advocacy and trauma treatment centers.  

Over the course of my career, I have worked extensively within child welfare, behavioral health, healthcare, multidisciplinary systems, and trauma-exposed organizations, supporting both direct service systems and broader organizational transformation efforts.

I have provided national training, consultation, and leadership support related to:

• trauma-informed systems
• workforce well-being
• organizational culture
• trauma-informed leadership
• implementation science
• psychological safety
• evidence-based practice implementation
• leadership under stress and uncertainty

I am also co-author of the book Trauma-Informed Assessment with Children and Adolescents: Strategies to Support Clinicians and have contributed to numerous publications related to trauma-informed systems, screening, assessment, and organizational implementation.

Why This Work Evolved

Over time, I became increasingly aware that organizations themselves carry stress, emotional load, and nervous system responses — particularly within human-serving systems exposed to chronic uncertainty, workforce strain, trauma, grief, urgency, and limited resources.

I saw how burnout, reactivity, communication breakdowns, mistrust, over-functioning, and emotional exhaustion were not simply individual issues, but often reflections of the larger conditions people were working within.

This realization fundamentally shaped my work.

Today, my work focuses not only on trauma-informed care for clients and communities, but also on how leaders and organizations create the conditions that allow people and systems to function more sustainably, relationally, and effectively over time.

How I Approach This Work

My work is grounded in the belief that:

• people function differently when they experience belonging and safety
• organizational stress responses are adaptive, not moral failings
• leadership nervous systems shape organizational nervous systems
• accountability and psychological safety can coexist
• sustainable leadership requires reflection, boundaries, and relational trust
• meaningful change happens through both practical implementation and human connection

I strive to bring warmth, clarity, reflection, and practical application into every engagement — whether I am working with an individual leader, a multidisciplinary team, or a large organizational system.

Organizations & Leaders I Commonly Support

My work is particularly relevant for:

• healthcare and behavioral health systems
• child welfare and advocacy organizations
• nonprofits and mission-driven organizations
• education and youth-serving systems
• trauma-exposed and multidisciplinary teams
• leaders navigating complexity, burnout, uncertainty, and organizational change

A Personal Note

I believe that meaningful leadership and sustainable systems are built through relationships, reflection, courage, accountability, and the willingness to remain human in environments that often push people toward exhaustion and disconnection.

Outside of my professional work, I continue exploring what it means to live and lead with greater steadiness, curiosity, purpose, and peace in an increasingly complex world.