Marisa Keegan

Recognized as one of the top 100 employee engagement experts in the United States, Marisa is a Certified Executive Coach who has helped hundreds of vice presidents and C-suite leaders build strong, cohesive teams. She specializes in helping rapidly growing technology companies to scale to meet demand. Marisa leads Aspire’s Science and Technology practice.

Laser-focused on the intersection of culture and strategy, Marisa equips organizations to build accountability frameworks and attraction cultures that drive success and retain top talent.

Marisa’s background in Industrial-organizational psychology, coupled with a lifetime of exposure to small and quickly growing businesses, allows her to help leaders implement the frameworks required to systematically help everyone within an organization move in the same direction, communicate effectively, and advance toward a single, collective goal.

Marisa designed a Customer Experience Model that has transformed how organizations turn customers into Brand Champions. She scaled operations (HR, Recruiting, Facilities, and IT) for Webmail.us, a Fortune 500 email hosting company that grew 1000% in three years, and established and scaled operations, customer success, inbound sales, pre-production, and production functions for an online apparel company. Marisa has often served as the only female on the leadership team and has coached numerous CEOs on increasing diversity of thought on their leadership teams.

Through her work, Marisa partnered with the CEO of a 100-year-old organization to transform and strengthen their Board of Directors. The supporting handbooks, training, and materials were presented at a national conference and are now utilized by numerous Boards nationwide.

Marisa hosts the Utter Brilliance podcast and is the author of Culture: More than Jeans and Margarita Machines.