Room 04 · Organizations

The same patterns that run families run organizations.

Because the same human beings are in both rooms.

Lisane Basquiat is a keynote speaker who brings two decades of corporate executive experience to leadership development, organizational culture, and team dynamics, helping organizations recognize the inherited patterns shaping leadership behavior and decision-making.

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23+years Corporate organizational change management the final 13 as an executive
21years Co-administering the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate
King Pleasure© Co-curator and co-executive producer of the landmark exhibition
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what she brings

Lisane Basquiat brings two decades as a corporate executive in business transformation, and more than twenty-one years managing one of the most complex legacy operations in the world, the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, into every keynote, panel, and workshop. The translation is direct: organizational culture as an inherited behavioral system, leadership defaults installed long before a title, and the undercurrent beneath team conflict that surface-level training doesn’t reach.

Six signature talks.

One throughline runs under all six. starts where the patterns do, because long before anyone hands you a title. From there it opens out: for the drive that is costing more than it returns, for what actually sustains a career, as a standard rather than an apology, and for whoever inherits the room after you.

Plus fully custom talks built for a specific organization. Every engagement is shaped to your room, inquiry first, then a scoping call.
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Lisane Basquiat seated, executive presence
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Why we repeat inherited patterns, and how to interrupt them.

Rooms she has already been in.

Global Exchange · Atlanta Building a Life of Purpose
March 2026
Julius Baer · Lausanne Family Legacy and Next-Gen Leadership
February 2026
JP Morgan Miami Summit Legacy, Branding, and the Human Side of Stewardship
January 2026
Vanguard Culture Mashup · San Diego Opening Keynote
November 2025
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Shaping the Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat
October 2025
St. Albans School · Washington, DC
October 2024
TD Securities · Martha’s Vineyard
August 2024
Jenesse Center Youth Summit
January 2024
“It was a truly inspiring, cozy, and intimate chat, and we are very appreciative of you sharing your perspectives and experiences so authentically. More than two-thirds of the audience rated your session a 9 or 10 out of 10.”
The Julius Baer team · ELEVATE Family Excellence
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