She captured some of these insights in her book Where the Action Is: The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization, and today she leads the team at Lucid Meetings as they work with organizations worldwide to help them implement a system of successful meetings that drives performance and brings teams joy.Įlise lives in Portland, OR with her husband, two of their five kids, and a curly-haired Lagotto puppy named Mabel. Since then, she’s worked to understand what makes meetings work well and what happens when teams run consistently successful meetings.Įlise discovered that nearly every business expert, leadership coach, sales executive, marketer, and influencer has a cherished set of “meeting hacks” that power their success, and that when you look at these practices in the aggregate, clear patterns emerge. There, she discovered plenty of real-life drama, intrigue, and opportunity every day, often in meetings. When it became clear that the waitressing part of the story was going to last a bit too long for comfort, Elise swapped her acting dreams for another kind of fantasy world. This inspired her to get a degree in the performing arts, after which she embarked on a post-collegiate quest to live out a real-life “Pancake House Waitress Turns Superstar!” fantasy. Growing up, Elise did well in school but had an incredibly difficult time staying awake in any of her classes except for band, theatre, and gym. She’s the eldest of between 2 to 4 siblings, depending on how you count it all up, and happy that her family’s predilection for multiple marriages resulted in a generous extra helping of loving grandparents for her children. Despite moving over 15 times before the age of 20, she ended up settling in Portland just over 100 miles to the north. Now, she teaches others systems and practices to conduct more successful meetings.Įlise Keith was born in Eugene, OR. As part of her efforts to improve she learned she needed to spend more time connecting in meetings instead of being impatient and direct. Elise Keith found herself leading teams that fell apart.

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