Advisory Council

Lisa Meyer earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Northern Iowa and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa before starting a marketing and marketing communications career that set her among the top of her peers.

McCall’s, in association with Adweek magazine, named her one of the “10 Best Women in Advertising” in 1994.

From 1985 to 1999, Meyer worked from an account executive to chief operating officer and senior partner at Carmichael Lynch in Minneapolis.

During that time, she worked with clients as varied as American Express Financial Services, Cargill, Gateway Computers, Harley-Davidson, the Minnesota State Lottery, Samuel Adams, Target Stores, and United Healthcare.

From there, she became part of the senior management at the Marquette Financial Companies, and then managed and directed Hi-Wire and River Road Entertainment, a $10 million state-of-the-art post production facility serving the advertising, television and film industry.

She is a board member for the Minnesota Citizen’s League, the MacPhail Center for Music, Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education, and the advisory board of the University of Northern Iowa School of Music.

Meyer most recently become a consultant to the Pohlad Family Charities for philanthropic activities and integration into other Pohlad businesses, an offshoot of her growing involvement in the area of strategic philanthropy.

She recently completed a week-long residency at Stanford University playing jazz piano in the Stanford Jazz Workshop.