Meet our founder
Lorissa Garcia
Assembly Culture Founder and Head Culture Crafter.
Driven by values and fuelled by feelings (oh, and coffee – but only the good kind).
Lorissa Garcia
Founder, Assembly Culture. MBA. Certified Emotional Culture Specialist. Certified and Qualified Leadership Coach.
Lorissa Garcia is the Founder of Assembly Culture and Co-founder of the Workplace Rituals Deck.
With over 20 years working with leaders and teams across infrastructure, government, NGO and corporate sectors, Lorissa has worked with organisations including DFAT, DT Global, Red Cross, CARE Australia, Coles, NBN, Brother Australia, Automattic (WordPress) and Envato.
The work has always been about the same thing. Helping leaders understand the culture they’re building, often without realising it, and helping teams find the patterns they’ve lived inside for so long they can no longer see them. When both shift together, the change is lasting.
Lorissa draws on positive psychology, strengths-based practice, the science of how emotions drive behaviour, and data-led leadership assessment – weaving these into a process that is built around each organisation’s people, context and direction.
She is also the co-founder of the Workplace Rituals Deck, a methodology and card deck designed to help teams build deliberate, human ways of working together.
In twenty years she hasn’t found a shortcut to that. But she has found a way through it.
Qualifications & Certifications
Lorissa’s approach is built on a genuine depth of training, not a single framework applied everywhere.
- Master of Business Administration— Leadership and Innovation
- Diploma in Coaching and Human Resources
- Certified in Organisational, Business, Leadership & Performance Coaching
- Gallup-trained CliftonStrengths Coach
- Certified in the Leadership Circle Profile 360 Leadership Assessment
- Certified as an Emotional Culture Deck Expert Culture Consultant
- Soon to be Certified as an Emotional Agility Practitioner (with Susan David)
Qualifications and certifications
“Lorissa is an engaging, thoughtful, empathic, and skilled facilitator who skillfully guided the team through the workshop, moving from one topic to the next seamlessly. I really enjoyed the whole workshop, but I particularly enjoyed the way that the questions and topics generated thoughtful and engaged responses from the participants.”