Speaker Spotlight: Lisa Ghisolf

Lisa Ghisolf is Gizmo Creative Factory, with 20 years in print, web & email design, and 14 years in business. She’s worked with big and small companies, publications and organizations alike, creating print and digital for Kraft, the National Retail Foundation, Bridgestone, the National Safety Council & many others. Aside from putting out fires, she has designed and built robust WordPress sites since 2008, starting nostalgically with HTML back in 1996. Lisa also offers training and maintenance and likes to work as a technology and design partner to her clients.

Lisa will be giving a talk titled “From zero to launch: A walk-through of the website process“.


What is your favorite improvement to WordPress this past year?

JetPack UI overhaul; hoping for the best on the text editor…

Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Montreal?

Want to go to Montreal (duh) and meet Canadian WP nerds!

What is your talk going to be about?

A roadmap for working with clients that touches on the important pieces to creating a lasting site rather than a “get ‘er done” mentality. Also for potential clients to know what they should be looking for in a project.

What is the one thing you want people to walk away with from your talk?

New ideas to incorporate into their workflow or touchpoints for working with developers.

Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?

Everybody! Vladimir Prelovac, John James Jacoby, Joost de Valk, Mika Epstein, Boone Gorges

What new feature would you like to see in the future?

Not so much a feature but… make BuddyPress less buggy? Please?

WordCamp Montréal 2017 is over. Check out the next edition!