Lisa Foster: Emotional Intelligence Training and One-on-One Meeting Tips for Managers
Lisa Foster is a business coach, speaker, and author of Bag Lady: How I Started a Business for a Greener World and Changed the Way America Shops. In this episode of the Environmental Transformation Podcast, host Sean Grady talks with Lisa about her journey founding 1 Bag at a Time, Inc., one of the first reusable grocery bag companies in the U.S., and how she scaled it to sell millions of bags. Lisa shares insights on leadership, emotional intelligence, and building high-performing teams. She also previews her free one-hour training on one-on-one meetings and her upcoming six-week leadership series.
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Lisa Foster
Leadership Coach
Lisa started her career as a high school English teacher. Then, in 2005, with no business training but a powerful purpose, she launched a business to disrupt the plastic bag industry. In her first year, she sold a quarter-million reusable grocery bags. In her second year, 2 million. By year three, 8 million. Each bag could replace up to 1,000 plastic bags—cutting usage by billions. Over the next 12 years, she remained a top supplier and led a team of 200+. Then she sold the company, published a book, and gave a TEDx Talk. The key to that success wasn’t luck or technical training—it was emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helped her build, lead, and succeed—and now she helps leaders like you do the same.
