Actor, improviser, instructor, corporate facilitator, Lisa Merchant has been improvising/performing for over 24 years and teaching for 20 years. Currently, Lisa is a senior core faculty member at The Second City and Bad Dog Theatre training centres. She also delivers corporate workshops focusing on communications, teambuilding, innovation, change and creativity with both The Second City Communications and Bad Dog Theatre.

Lisa taught Strategic Communications – The Art of Improvisation at the University of Toronto's School for Continuing Studies, was part of the faculty at The Haliburton School of the Arts, is an occasional instructor at the Humber College Comedy Program and the Living Arts Centre.

She is a three time Canadian Comedy Award winner for Best Female Improviser. She created and produced Toronto's longest running comedy festival, March of Dames, for 10 years. Some of Lisa's television credits include: Train 48, Listen Missy, Go Girl!, Just For Laughs Improv Championships, to name a few.

Lisa was a founding member of the comedy troupe, The Chumps, who improvised a weekly radio show on the CBC. For 7 years she performed bi-weekly in Monkey Toast, the live improvised talk show with such esteemed guests as: former Mayor David Miller, Mark Tewksbury Olympic Gold Medalist, leader of the NDP Jack Layton, to name a few. She was a guest contributor on CBC Radio One's Saturday morning show GO! with Brent Bambury.

Lisa performs weekly in various shows in and around the Toronto area.

Lisa presents at the following IRC program(s): Organizational Learning