Lisa Laporte's professional career spans over 35 years as a Corporate Controller, CFO, Consultant, CEO, and Founder in a wide variety of businesses, with an emphasis on startups. Throughout her career, Lisa has established expertise in growing startups, building successful and diverse teams, establishing robust and successful partnerships through business development, and in generating income. From very early on, Lisa approached her professional positions with a passion for learning and a desire to pull people together and help everyone succeed and grow.In any industry, Lisa Laporte worked hard to gather experience that she knew would help her in the future. Lisa has the drive to learn and achieve success, which pushed her to hone her skills, and always looks for the next opportunity to enhance her professional experience. While building her career, Lisa had the opportunity to create an extensive network, which benefitted her later.In her 30s, Lisa Laporte decided she wanted to become an entrepreneur and founded her own consulting business. During this time, Lisa tapped into her extensive network for referrals and hired her first employee within a year. Soon, Lisa was working with 30+ businesses, performing a variety of C-level tasks for them. Eventually, Lisa decided she wanted to take her career in a different direction, which was when she joined TWiT.tv.After, she worked her way up to the position of CEO at TWiT.tv, Lisa Laporte founded Artisanal Agency, which closed during the pandemic to allow Lisa to focus all of her energy on pivoting TWiT. Since she's added an ad-free club and diversified revenue streams to remain viable. TWiT is the first technology podcast network, established in 2005, and continues to thrive today under Lisa's guidance.Visit www.lisalaporte.ceo for her professional blog. Lisa Laporte's current venture is being the CEO of TWiT.tv.