Lisa Pinion
President, Founder & Chief Strategist
Lisa is a business leader with deep expertise in strategy, culture and organizational development. She has a strong track record creating award-winning cultures, bottom line impact and inspiring employee experiences. Notably, many of her clients have earned prestigious recognition as a best workplace in highly sought-after lists and rankings. Whether a client is award-winning or not—what drives her is helping so many good companies become the great workplaces they strive to be.
Clients engage Lisa for her tremendous insights into the inner workings of successful cultures and what it takes to create and sustain them. Prior to founding Pinion Solutions Group, Lisa spent seven years as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Assurance. There she developed innovative people strategies and programs that helped lead the company to national recognition as a great place to work. On the heels of this award, Best & Brightest Companies to Work For invited Lisa to join its Advisory Board and later head the organization’s Peer Affinity Group in Chicago. In this capacity, Lisa leads monthly leadership roundtables with Best & Brightest award winners across the Chicagoland area.
Her immersion within so many award-winning workplaces and their leadership affords her unique insights into a diverse range of businesses driving inspiring cultural change and business impact. As a result, she can draw upon a broad spectrum of creative problem-solving techniques, lessons learned, and recipes for success that she can bring back to her client work.
In her words, culture is a business strategy—and doing the right thing by your people is always the right thing for the business.
Beth Luther
Strategic Human Resources Consultant
A seasoned Human Resources and Organizational Development leader, Beth brings over 25 years of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation and cultural alignment. Known for blending strategic insight with hands-on execution, Beth integrates coaching, collaboration and data-driven practices to unlock individual and organizational potential.
Beth is passionate about developing people and building award winning cultures focused on exceptional employee experiences, wellness and EOS methodology. As a certified coach with a master’s in human resources, Beth has transformed workplace cultures using a values and mission driven strategy.
Beth has served in a variety of industries for both small, privately held companies and Fortune 500 organizations. She has a track record of creating award winning “Best Places to Work” and “Healthiest Companies in America”. As a progressive leader and coach, she uses emotional intelligence and empathy, creative problem-solving skills and decision making in very complex situations. This helps create a rich environment for people, limits risk and improves business results.
Melanie DeVos
Human Resources Consultant
Prior to joining Pinion Solutions Group, Melanie spent over 20 years in the insurance industry in client service and strategic leadership roles. Much of her focus was partnering with HR leadership to drive people processes and projects for this growing organization. Her love and passion of all HR things grew from this role and with the support of her family, she pursued a career in Human Resources.
Melanie’s expertise spans the employee lifecycle in performance management, employee engagement, career development and management, recruiting, training, coaching and mentoring.
Melanie holds the Senior Human Resources Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) designation from the Society for Human Resource Management.
Lindley White
Communications Consultant
Lindley White has deep experience in corporate communications—including strategy, internal and external communications, employee engagement, change management, and diversity & inclusion initiatives, and strategic events.
Lindley began her career in the White House working in the first Bush Administration and has continued to work with high-ranking executives and firms in the public eye—including McDonald’s and Ariel Investments. In working with the C-suite, Lindley has provided executive coaching, authored numerous speeches, and ghost written many columns for business magazines, including Forbes and Black Enterprise.
She has extensive experience working on large-scale corporate initiatives from the rollout of McDonald’s worldwide “i’m lovin’ it” campaign to global rebranding initiatives and mergers & acquisitions. As a consultant, representative projects include leading communications for a global insurance brokerage firm on its employee engagement survey spanning 33 countries and 24,000 employees—resulting in a 93% employee participation rate. She has served as a communications lead for a global professional services company during its largest integration, managing change management communications as the organization merged customer experience teams and technology platforms across North America. During the Sun-Times Media Group’s bankruptcy proceedings, she served as a spokesperson and handled a range of internal corporate communications.
Her collective experiences working within the political, financial, technology and manufacturing arenas, Fortune 500 brands, entrepreneurial environments, as well as distressed companies afford her unique insights into diverse constituencies and a wide array of communications challenges.