1. Dr. Lisa Ann Haeseler, MSED, BA, BSW, LSWA
Educational Community Outreach Consulting: President, Leadership Advocacy Group
Oakville, ON Work Cell: (905) 330-5658 Linked In Email: drlisaann@gmail.com
LEADERSHIP ADVOCACY GROUP: As the sole founder and president of LAG, and as a true
survivor of abuse, I am dedicated to enhancing leadership qualities and organizational
development. I advance awareness, prevention, and sensitivity training for professionals in
understanding the ecological coping issues for women and children of domestic violence abuse.
As a consultant, I advocate for leadership improvement of service delivery by helping various
professionals in various arenas to more thoroughly ascertain the multi-faceted, complex needs of
women and children coping with trauma, both in and out of the workplace and at school. My
workshops are based on all of my own research publications. Workshop topics could include:
reinvigorating workplace vision, missions, team-building, culture, climate, strategic planning,
leadership styles, reflective practice, organizational structure and transformation. I help
organizations via coordinating community sponsored service events such as the Clothesline
Projects, Literacy, Anti-bullying, and Safety day campaigns. I demonstrate my diverse expertise
to social service agencies, learning organizations, law firms, businesses, and public and private
corporations. I showcase my extensive, multi-skilled knowledge, background, and experience in
leadership practices, strategic planning, organizational development, and program assessment. I
engage with varying professionals based on agency, school, or corporate needs, including
enhancing organizational alignment of values, missions, by-laws, and service contributions.
Through my motivational teachings I inspire leaders to advance their understanding of women
and children coping in the spectrum of abuse including staying in, leaving, or returning.
For any workshop session, professionals are afforded an organic giving opportunity contributing
to their charity of choice delivering non-perishable foods, toys, books, and household items.
URGENCY: Family abuse is a major risk factor of safety for women and children. As numerous
women of trauma are seeking employment or are already employed in various occupations, and
are reliant upon stable work, every employer and organization from every workplace arena and
school district have a vested moral, ethical imperative and law abiding obligation to identify
abuse and report it appropriately through proper channels and procedural protocols. Any
employer has a fiscal responsibility to aid families at risk due to bottom-line financial
accountability and shareholder, stakeholder transparency. Numerous companies are under police
investigation by law enforcement, being charged with criminal, felony-level indictments due to
negligence, incompetence, cover ups, or abandonment of women in abusive situations while in
the workforce. All senior administration must engage in dutiful acknowledgement and make
proper initiatives for the safety of their female employees at risk. Through my sensitivity
trainings, professionals will understand more thoroughly the issues surrounding women of abuse
with which they cope including medical and mental health, economic, child-rearing, and
schooling stressors. From my workshops, professionals will show transparency, accountability,
and demonstrate more empathy and advocacy for deserved women and children of abuse.
CREDENTIALS: Invited Member: Oakville Chamber of Commerce, BIA, Who’s Who of
Canada/International; Master’s in childhood education and literacy; certified elementary school
teacher; Bachelor’s and licensed social worker; Published research author of extensive studies
surrounding advocacy for women and children at risk and how to improve service care; Doctorate
in inter-disciplinary Leadership and Organizational Development; Doctorate dissertation
investigated how leaders and organizations can improve advocacy for women and children coping
with domestic violence abuse; 20 years of experience as an advocate, counselor, teacher, and
resource advisor for women and children of at risk; 15 years of experience teaching adult learning
professionals, both under graduate and graduate, including at the college and university levels.

2. ALL PEER REVIEWED/REFEREED, ORIGINAL SCHOLARSHIP
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:
“Supporting Families Coping with Issues of Domestic Violence Abuse”. This research
examines the experience of familial trauma for women and children from a leadership lens and
organizational improvement stance, detailing how educators and social work practitioners can
advance service delivery of care to women and children by providing an open-channels,
inter/intra agency networking collaboration of community resources. Located are techniques
helping professionals can utilize to advance care to families. (The Exchange Press, 2016).
“Solutions to Minimizing Biases Between Educators and Parents: Enhancing Home-School-
Community Connection”. This study includes both qualitative and quantitative data about
educational professionals’ solutions, with the survey also originally created. Results from
elementary school professionals provide interesting insights regarding parental attitude of
education, teaching concerns, child performance issues, perceptions of colleagues, administration,
and the overall aspects of care interwoven into the community. (The Exchange Press, 2015).
“Innovative Strategies to Help Women and Children of Domestic Violence Abuse”. This
research study focuses upon detailing precise leadership strategies and classroom techniques
educational professionals can utilize in and out of the classroom, in order to better aid women and
children of domestic violence abuse. Early childhood/elementary teachers, assistants, and
administrators are able to engage in these strategies to advocate for diverse families, including
those with child abuse and adult domestic violence abuse. (The Exchange Press, 2014).
“Stopping Child Bullying: Educators’ Diverse Approaches for School Improvement”.
Educational professionals from elementary and high school levels, answer original survey
questions and detail particular bullying problems they see while serving in their own unique
leadership capacity role and what initiatives they have modeled/participated in either individually
or collectively to stop bullying. Teaching professionals detail existing policies or potential
procedural guidelines to be implemented. (Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2014).
“Team Building Strategies for Early Childhood Teachers”. This action-driven focus research
investigates how teachers of young children can improve upon relations with parents, guardians,
and family members in order to provide enhanced quality care in teaching to young children.
Located are precise leadership team strategies to implement. (Exchange Journal Press, 2014).
“Organizational Development Structure: Improvements for Service Agencies Aiding Women of
Abuse”. Qualitative data was collected through interviews with leaders of different agencies.
Results of agency models indicate systems-based structures are a most beneficial design to
enhance service to women of domestic violence as they require simultaneous, complex, and
multifaceted care. Inter-agency and intra-agency initiatives provide women with the effective,
comprehensive and collaborative care. (Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2014).
“Themes of Coping in the Spectrum of Domestic Violence Abuse: A Review of the Literature”.
Women’s coping experiences in the spectrum of domestic violence abuse are complex,
interwoven, and multifaceted. The spectrum stages of abuse include when a woman is in, out, or
returning to the abuse situation. Discussed are the obstacles with which women cope regarding
obtaining needed services. Themes of women’s coping include psycho-physiological, economic,
education, family and childcare factors. Included are suggestions for professionals as women
utilize multiple services simultaneously. (Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2014).

3. “Community-centric Techniques for Early Childhood Educators”. This research provides
specific innovative ideas as to how teachers of young children can utilize community
professionals’ expertise in community outreach initiatives in order to both call upon them for aid
and also contribute to the neighborhood with positive collaboration between community
providers. Detailed are outreach directives for the workplace. (Exchange Journal Press, 2013).
“Practitioner Perspectives of the Economic Coping Experiences of Women of Abuse ”. This
original research is part of a dissertation study. This research details how women of abuse cope
with detrimental economic hardship, as expressed and interpreted by the social work providers
who daily aid these women of abuse. Practical social service initiatives are suggested in order to
better service women of domestic violence. (Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2012).
“Improving Service Practices: Collaborative Care for Women of Abuse”. This research details
how to enhance an interdisciplinary systems-based, inter-agency and intra-agency framework in
order to advance service delivery of care. Social workers, educators, and community outreach
practitioners must engage with each other more collaboratively and more often in order to
provide improved service networking of care. (Human Behavior in the Social Environment,
2012).
“Women’s Coping Experiences in the Spectrum of Domestic Violence Abuse”. This article
dissects the multifaceted mental, medical coping mechanisms displayed by women of abuse, as
expressed by the social work providers aiding them. This phenomenological case study
investigates the ecological experiences of coping. Women cope with many factors
simultaneously in their lives as there are numerous and diverse issues that comprise abuse. Eight
providers from four different agencies, two providers per agency, described women’s coping in
and out of the abusive situation. Study results demonstrate that women’s coping in the spectrum
of domestic violence is unique, complex, and interwoven. (Evidence-Based Social Work, 2011).
“Leadership Styles of Service Professionals Aiding Women of Abuse: Enhancing Service
Delivery”. This study details varying kinds of leadership qualities, attributes, or characteristics
are most appropriate for social service, educational, and community outreach professionals in
order to advance their daily therapeutic initiatives when aiding women and children of familial
trauma regarding professional development practices. (Evidence-Based Social Work, 2010).
“Biblio-therapeutic Book Creations by Pre-service Student Teachers: Helping Elementary
School Children Cope”. This article details this author’s own literacy graduate pre-
service students’ biblio-therapeutic books and corresponding lesson extension activities.
My education college students created their own children’s book about how to positively
cope with tough social issues or circumstances on tough topics of their choice, expressed through
creating their own children’s books. Some of the social issues included domestic violence, child
abuse, disabilities, poverty, and death and dying. (Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2008).
“Promoting Literacy Learning for Children of Abuse: Strategies for Elementary School
Teachers”. This article discusses children of domestic violence abuse, the cognitive and
developmental aspects that influence learning. Detailed are specific literacy techniques
to aid them, including how cultural diversity and social class distinctions play roles in
evaluation of abuse in the classroom. (Journal of Reading Improvement, 2006).
“Children of Abuse and School Discourse: Implications for Teachers and Administrators”. This
article discusses children of abuse and the implications of protocol and procedural accountability

4. initiatives involved specifically for school leaders, and the importance of community
collaboration for recognizing and preventing familial abuse. (Journal of Education, 2005).