Lisa Camp

Lisa currently leads the Livingston Innovation Group, a consultancy she founded focused on applying over 30 years of university administrative experience in creating and implementing new initiatives and approaches to higher ed’s most complex challenges.  From ways to use co-design methodologies with multiple stakeholders, to strength-based innovation practices to help leaders move teams forward, the Livingston Innovation Group honors the unique cultures and practices of organizations in designing their solutions.

Prior to Livingston, she served for over 15 years in various leadership capacities at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  This included Chief of Staff and Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Provost.  In that capacity, she led the university’s ThinkBig strategic plan as well as worked with teams to realize a new set of General Education Requirements and ways to simplify approaches and structures in support of student advising. While serving within the Case School of Engineering, she led many multi-disciplinary and stakeholder initiatives including the establishment of the Great Lakes Energy Institute, the innovation & makerspace called Sears Think[box], the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, and the first Manufacturing USA institute, America Makes.

Lisa also led initiatives regionally in partnership with institutions such as Cleveland State University and Lorain County Community College as well as nationally through organizations such as MetroLab Network and the MakeSchools Alliance.

She has presented at numerous national conferences on a variety of topics, such as the role of strategy in research development; how to support student innovators in a regional ecosystem; managing industry, higher education, and nonprofit organizations on large projects; and the intersection of innovation, making, and manufacturing. She is co-author on a book entitled, The End of Academic Freedom: The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University.

Lisa continues to engage with undergraduate students each semester through her course called Making & Manufacturing Today: The Role of Innovation, an important activity for her understanding of the ever changing student body today.