To make real change, you need someone who naturally draws outside of the lines.
I help solve big picture problems using disruptive strategy, collaborative partnerships, and web technology. A higher purpose is the icing on top.
My Books
Disrupt Your Now, whether you want to change the world or
just your own life.
So, Lisa, how can you help me do that?
I combine my decades of deep & varied experience with a love for solving puzzles and a secret weapon I got from my father being blind…
Every day I watched him do things that you would think he shouldn’t be able to do. Things like mow the grass, operate a lathe, and ride horses. I literally never heard him say “I can’t do that.”
I absorbed a different way of thinking & wasn’t even aware of it.
Now you can benefit from that unique insight.
That and my decades of experience as an internet entrepreneur and web developer (along with a background in strategy, economic development, marketing & design, and accounting) are a combination you won’t find in anyone else.
For Kolbe people, I’m 4-2-9-3. If you’re not familiar with Kolbe and don’t know what that means, it’s ok! It just means I’m:
- able to cut through complexity
- very flexible & adapt with ease
- innovative & creative, love to brainstorm, and don’t mind chaos or ambiguity
- able to imagine how things *could* work together
And I communicate with no gobbledygook, guaranteed.
Lisa is a real technological visionary and, yes, unstoppable.
~ Michael Hingson, author of Thunder Dog
Blind 9/11 survivor who escaped the WTC with his guide dog
Dennis Yu, CEO of Blitzmetrics
Roland Frasier, co-founder or principal of 5 different Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies
Jeffrey Madoff, author of Creative Careers, & real life Wizard of Oz Steve Sims
Greg Reid, award-winning author, speaker, filmmaker
Brian Smith, founder Uggs
Steve Sims, author of Bluefishing & founder of Sims.Media
Dan Fleyshman, youngest founder of a publicly traded company in history
Tim Larkin, author Surviving the Unthinkable
The business strategist behind the history-making,
disruptive NASCAR cause marketing campaign.
Get Ready to Disrupt Your Now!
In a world full of gurus who throw jargon around like candy, you don’t need more gobbledygook.
You need someone who:
- has decades of entrepreneurial & internet business experience but can still use real words that make sense;
- is a strategic, high-level thinker;
- will help you clarify your goals & develop a strategy to reach them;
- will bridge the communication gap between you & those who grew up on the web (digital natives);
- and can help you build strategic relationships with potential for long term collaboration.
I’ve been a pioneer in business use of the web since 1996.
That’s the year I started my web development & business strategy company. A time when few people knew what Amazon was. Two years before Google even existed. Yet I was already using the web to reimagine businesses. I even sold an online business right before the dot-com bubble burst. You know, back when they said the internet was dead?
For over 27 years I’ve been using the internet to enable living life on my own terms.
Now I’m all about using that experience & insight to help you get what you really want out of life and business.
Forbes 30 Under 30-listed blind PhD chemist Dr. Hoby Wedler calls me a “cognitive powerhouse” because of my talent for creating disruptive strategy & valuable collaborations.
Steve Sims, author of Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen, says I’m a unicorn.
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My Entrepreneurial Journey & Project Highlights:
- 1990: started my first business when my kids were 4-months and 24-months old.
- 1991-1999: cared for my Father-in-Law with Alzheimer's while running my businesses & raising my kids.
- 1993: sold the first business and started my second business, which I sold in 1995.
- 1996: started my web & business strategy company.
- 1997: Began selling books on Amazon.
- 1998: Transformed a print product into a digital subscription service to free the owner up from the costs of buying and storing inventory, and the hassles of fulfillment.
- 2000: Took a business on the brink of bankruptcy to sale at 20x investment in less than 2 years. It wasn’t even on the market when it sold just before the .com bubble burst. You know, back when the naysayers said “the internet is done."
- 2003: Transformed what had been expenses into a profit center for a pro athlete’s foundation by developing an online marketplace for other nonprofits.
- 2005: Developed an online reservation platform for B&B's and small campgrounds.
- 2007: Developed the first-gen online assessment tool for a best selling sales book.
- 2008 - 2012: Board member for an Economic Development organization.
- 2011: Developed an iPhone app for a radio network, live streaming all of their stations through a single app.
- 2010 - 2014: Cared for my mother with Alzheimer's until her death while still runing my business.
- 2015: Developed a Shop Local online marketplace that gave a 10-county economic development region a way to offer local products for sale online and let customers pay multiple vendors in one transaction.
- 2017: Wrote Boomer Cashout: Increase the Value & Marketability of Your Business to Sell For Retirement book for entrepreneurs.
- 2019 - present: Developed the disruptive strategy behind history-making pro race car driver Colin Garrett’s 11/11 Veteran Project.
- 2019: Helped a nonprofit develop strategic partnerships that gave them a national platform.
- 2020: Developed the first crowdfunding campaign for a NASCAR Xfinity Series team, raising enough to also pay for stem cell treatments for a veteran with MS.
- 2020: Developed a Matching Gift Card Program that tripled CARES Act funding & got over $2.7M into 2 rural communities for COVID economic recovery.
- 2020: Started my multi-platform live streamed show for entrepreneurs.
- 2021: Wrote Disrupt Your Now: The Successful Entrepreneur's Guide to Reimagining Your Business & Life book.
- 2023: Wrote Disrupt My Now, companion workbook for Disrupt Your Now.
Lisa is an amazing partner, in part because she seeks to understand who you are and what you value. Her strategic insight is specifically designed to produce the result that each client is seeking. Everyone says that…she really does it. I work with her in the for profit and nonprofit arenas. She is a dedicated long term partner and helps get things done. With Lisa you get her heart as well as her head.
~ Ryan Garrett
co-founder of 11/11 Veteran Project
If you’re not afraid of challenging the status quo, Lisa Kipps-Brown can help you build a business that’s sustainable and means more than money. Her ability to maneuver in the world of business, NASCAR, Veteran Suicide awareness and unquestionable professionalism… has helped propel my beverage company to be accepted into major retailors like Walmart, COSTCO and Whole Foods. There is no one better fitted, who cares, who is passionate and who delivers results.
Founder of Body Aqua