Series Host

Dr. Risa Ryger
Founder, 93% Consulting

About Dr. Ryger

Dr. Risa Ryger is a Clinical Psychologist and Founder of 93% Consulting. As an Expert in Change™, she specializes in helping people ignite and manage change at all stages of their professional and personal lives. With her background in psychology, neuroscience, business, and mindfulness, Dr. Ryger helps empower people to address, cope, and conquer change. Dr. Ryger believes that change can be our super power when we know how to harness it for positive growth. People who work with her learn that understanding and clarity are crucial steps that must be combined with implementation and action to help them move forward in their lives.

Dr. Ryger earned her Doctorate from Columbia University and has held academic appointments at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Cornell University Medical School. She has consulted and given presentations to professional, legal, financial, fashion, education, and event planner industries among others. Dr. Ryger serves on the Advisory Council of Mindfulness Without Borders. She is the proud mother of two amazing daughters.

Dr. Ryger knows that, “Positive change can happen at any point in your life. Be Heard. Be Seen. Be Valued”™

Featured Guest Speaker

Lisa Durant

About Lisa

It’s an interesting thing to be calm in the eye of the storm. To be able to perform better in chaos, under pressure, with high stakes, over everyday predictability.

Lisa is that person. Her life consistently put her under pressure. In sports, as a top ranked junior tennis player, the lone female on an all-boys little league, playing first base nonetheless, and as a lifelong distance runner.

Lisa worked for celebrities designing and producing events, and managed Martha Stewart’s events program. She’s worked in publishing and finance on deadline and negotiating deals. She traveled the world solo, often to dangerous places nobody advised she go alone. In her personal life, Lisa lost everything in a total loss house fire, and her marriage was marked by abuse. The way Lisa navigated highs and lows, and unpredictable change, including raising three children solo, is something people that know Lisa could hardly comprehend.

Lisa explains the challenges led her to see how she could help people on a large scale, consistently pushing the limits of what can be done as a person in life.

Life is complicated. Lisa takes the vast amount of experience and information she has, and whittles it down to practices to help people navigate change and disruption. She speaks of key skills needed, and how to develop them. She’s keen on practices that help ground and nurture a person at a base level to have a strong foundation from which to deal with life’s unknowns.

Lisa is an idealist and dreamer, and inspirer. With a strong hospitality and helping bent, Lisa says her job is to help bring joy and meaning to people’s lives, celebrating the steps along the way, including the hard ones.