Lisa Wolfson, Program Director
“By the time I was a kid, I already knew I wanted to work with people in any capacity. That’s when I’m most comfortable: giving to others, helping and solving problems.”
For Lisa Wolfson, volunteering at You Can Thrive! is a perfect fit. As anyone who has worked with her knows, she is a skilled people manager, able to analyze and implement the overall needs of the organization while listening with warmth and empathy to the individual in front of her.
Lisa’s college background includes marketing and systems applications. After graduation, she got a job working as a payroll manager. Her professional role included integrating and overseeing many projects from payroll to benefits to resources. Her talent is an innate ability to balance the needs of the group and the needs of the individual, showing a skill that is very rare.
With a son in college and a fulltime job, Lisa came to You Can Thrive! through her own and her mother’s experience with breast cancer. “I’ve always done things for other people, she says. “Service is a family tradition. Beyond that, my mother had breast cancer and I’ve always supported breast cancer causes.”
After her diagnosis and treatment, Lisa took an online course at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. It was there she found a link to You Can Thrive! and quickly signed on, starting somewhere between limited nutrition counseling, scheduling appointments, and office manager. In time, she found her role evolving to overseeing programs, volunteers, and reaching out to new clients. Now, she has the title: Program Director, and has been instrumental in strengthening the huge expansion and growth of programs at You Can Thrive!
“I have the opportunity to make these connections and I see the results,” she says. “I experience a sense of fulfillment. I’m the go to person, able to facilitate a change. That is the most meaningful to me.”
Calm, centered, focused, intelligent, Lisa is exactly where she is most needed and where she needs to be.