As an environmental scientist, Lisa is fulfilling her childhood dream of working in and with nature. She weaves her newly minted MBA skills and passion for sustainability into permitting and resource reports for wetland, wildlife and other critical-area projects.

Lisa enjoys helping clients solve their environmental and permitting problems, tackling the challenges of developing new markets and niches and attracting new clients and projects to GeoEngineers. “I am very concerned about the environment and our stewardship of it. I also love business development. I am innately curious about people and what makes them tick.”

When asked about a memorable GeoEngineers project, Lisa recounts, “There was a mountain of field work to do on Puget Sound Energy’s Sedro Woolley Horse Ranch project—including a cabinet full of documents to prepare and a roundtable of stakeholders to satisfy—in order to allow PSE’s largest new transmission line to be designed, permitted and built in a very short time frame. Meeting that schedule seemed an unsurmountable goal at the beginning, but through incredible hard and long work by all of our team members, we were able to pull it off. I am very proud of that.”

It’s no surprise that Lisa spends most of her free time outdoors. In the summer she seeks out choice spots in the world to climb and hike, and in the winter, she backcountry skis.

Recent Field Notes

New Approaches to Business for a New Year

By Lisa Berntsen, Jan 23, 2012

Every December when we are spending time being grateful for our families,...

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Strategic Planning for a Changing World

By Lisa Berntsen, Jan 17, 2012

For a company, strategic planning refers to the mechanism by which the...

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BA or BE, What’s the Difference?

By Lisa Berntsen, Jan 13, 2012

People both inside and outside the company ask me at least a dozen time a...

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