Introducing My New Title: Flourishing Strategist

For many years, I have carried many titles.

School Nutrition Director. - K-12 Foodservice Industry Professional
Cancer Survivor.
Daughter - Grandaughter - Sister - Mother. - Grandmother - Partner - Friend.
Founder.
Author.
Speaker.
Positive Psychology Practitioner - Holistic Health Practitioner - Metaphysical Scientist.
Ordained Minister.

Each one shaped me.
Each one refined my understanding of resilience, systems, leadership, and sacred responsibility.

As I step fully into this next chapter, I have chosen a title that integrates all of it:

Flourishing Strategist.

What Does “Flourishing Strategist” Mean?

Flourishing is not accidental.

It is designed.
It is structured.
It is cultivated.
It is sacred.

As a Certified Applied Positive Psychology Practitioner (CAPP), metaphysical scholar, and ordained interfaith minister through the Alliance of Divine Love, I have studied what allows human beings not simply to survive — but to thrive in body, mind, spirit, and community.

Flourishing integrates:

• Positive emotion

• Deep engagement

• Meaningful relationships

• Purpose

• Accomplishment

• Vitality

(My beloved PERMA-V framework 💜)

But strategy matters too.

Strategy means:

• Infrastructure

• Measurable outcomes

• Sustainability

• Systems thinking

• Intentional implementation

A Flourishing Strategist bridges inspiration and execution.

I do not simply offer encouragement.
I build containers that hold transformation.

Through Let Us Play Series™, retreats, workshops, speaking engagements, and leadership development experiences, I design environments where people reconnect to joy, reclaim meaning, and reimagine what is possible after adversity.

The Leadership Foundation Behind the Work

My decades in school nutrition leadership and food system management were not a detour — they were training.

As a US Foods School Bid Manager and K–12 Food Brokerage Leader, I learned to navigate:

• Large-scale procurement systems

• Regulatory compliance

• Vendor negotiation

• Budget accountability

• Cross-functional collaboration

As a School Nutrition Director, I oversaw operations serving thousands of children daily.

Those experiences taught me something critical:

Flourishing does not happen by accident inside institutions.

It requires design.

It requires structure.

It requires leadership.

Today, that operational expertise informs how I build healing frameworks for hospitals, nonprofits, schools, and community organizations.

Because joy without structure fades.
But joy supported by structure transforms culture.

The Spiritual Foundation

My ordination through the Alliance of Divine Love grounds my work in an interfaith, love-centered philosophy.

I believe:

Healing is holy work.
Joy is a discipline.
Play can be prayer.
Flourishing is sacred alignment.

My work honors the whole human being — emotional, relational, and spiritual — without imposing doctrine.

It is inclusive.

It is trauma-informed.
It is dignity-centered.

And it is rooted in love.

Why This Title Now?

After retiring from my long career in school nutrition leadership, I am stepping fully into:

• Writing and publishing

• Speaking on joy-centered healing

• Facilitator training and certification

• Cancer survivorship and trauma-informed programming

• Leadership transformation rooted in humanity

Flourish Strategist captures the integration of:

My lived experience as a Stage IV colon cancer survivor.
My Positive Psychology training.
My metaphysical studies.
My interfaith ministry.
My institutional leadership background.
My devotion to community.

It reflects not just what I do, but also how I do it.

With structure.
With soul.
With strategy.

Who I Serve

As a Flourishing Strategist, I work with:

• Cancer survivors navigating life beyond treatment

• Caregivers who need space to breathe

• Leaders who want to humanize performance

• Organizations seeking culture transformation

• Women stepping into their next chapter

• Trauma survivors ready to reclaim joy

I help people move from:

Survival → Stability → Expansion → Flourishing.

Rooted. Radiant. Reimagined.

To flourish, we must be rooted.
To flourish, we must allow ourselves to shine.
To flourish, we must be willing to become.

Flourishing is not indulgence.
It is alignment.

It is courageous.
It is intentional.
It is sacred.

And I am honored to serve in that work.

With intention and joy,
Lisa Caughman, MSc, HHP, CAPP
Ordained Minister, Alliance of Divine Love
Flourishing Strategist
Founder, Let Us Play Series™ - Lee Lees Life Lessons