Alisa Lewis is an HR Business Partner at eBay. In her role she partners with executives across the Platform Engineering and Global Finance teams to develop organizational strategies, improve employee engagement, and enable high performing teams to do their best work. She previously led both the University and Global Talent Engagement Programs teams.
Prior to joining eBay, Alisa enjoyed a very diverse career in a myriad of roles including MBA Admissions at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, management consulting, program leadership roles at a number of technology start-ups, and launched two companies of her own. Alisa received her BA from Stanford University and her MBA from the University of Southern California. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their 10 year-old son.
Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
02:25 – Alisa tells us about her career journey that began as a successful entrepreneur in high school and has brought her to eBay as an HR leader
07:04 – Alisa shares her reason for commuting to work by plane each week and how she integrated that grueling commute with family life.
12:35 – We learn about Alisa’s inventor-father and how her entrepreneurial spirit started at a young age.
25:22 – Alisa shares concrete advice on how to successfully manage multiple pivots over the course of a career.
35:11 – Alisa talks about things companies can do to make their environments more supportive of working moms.
43:01 – Alisa discusses the challenges of having a big job while raising a son.
47:24 – Brass Tacks— The lightning round of concrete advice and tips.
Quotable quotes:
- “I know there’s a lot of stigma for some people around having a nanny, but we’ve had amazing, amazing, really thoughtful, lovely women who we see as an integral part of our life, who showed our son so much love and happiness and took such good care of him.”
- “What I wished I had known back in the day…you have to take and own your career. You are the only person who knows what the right decisions are for you and what make you tick, what makes you love a job.”
- “I’m grateful that I didn’t take the linear path because I feel like I bring so much more to my work with these executives because of these experiences that I’ve had.”
- “So, I tell the younger people out there—really know why you love work. Think about the skills that you’re building and less about the title and the role.”
- “You need to be comfortable with your own decision and in your own skin.”
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