About | CEO at Heart®
About CEO at Heart®

I built this because I was tired of waiting for someone else to.

CEO at Heart® was not born in a boardroom. It was born out of frustration, and a deep conviction that women building businesses deserve better than what existed.

Who we are

We are not a startup. We are not asking for permission. We built the thing that should have existed already.

CEO at Heart® is a community, a platform and a membership for female founders and women entrepreneurs building service-based businesses on their own terms, with limited resources and a lot of determination.

Most women building businesses are either paying fortunes for tools they cannot figure out, or doing it entirely alone. We are here to change that. Not with charity. With a proper support system that actually works.

What we stand for

Three values. Every decision.

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Kindness

Not as a soft concept, but as a daily practice. How you show up for yourself sets the ceiling for how you lead your business.

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Knowledge

Everything we teach has been tested, researched and lived. The tools and frameworks inside the Studio come from real-world experience.

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Commitment

To our members first. We show up week after week in the sessions, in the community, in the platform. That consistency builds real results.

CEO at Heart® in numbers

Founded in 2020 in Lund, Sweden.
Growing across Europe and beyond.

Started as Lisa Maria Coaching and grown into a full platform, community and membership for founders who refuse to figure it all out alone.

2020 Year founded
Lund, Sweden
140+ Members across
Europe and beyond
CEO at Heart® community
2x Live coaching sessions
every week
4 Courses in every
Studio membership
10+ Countries represented
in our community
Local In-person events
in Skåne, Sweden
CEO at Heart® event
Lisa Padilla, founder of CEO at Heart®

Lisa Padilla — Founder, CEO at Heart®

The founder

About Lisa

I have always been an entrepreneur.

  • Age 7Organised a book trading club in my neighbourhood.
  • Age 8Played violin in the streets. Best paid job I ever had.
  • Age 10Started dog sitting and running my own schedule.
  • Age 12Organised events for local families.
  • Age 14Designed jewellery for my father's business.

I never needed anyone to teach me how to spot an opportunity. What I needed was someone to show me how to build something that lasts.

I studied business and marketing, worked at an international school, raised two kids in a country far from our family, and eventually ended up at a corporate desk wondering how I had walked into the exact hamster wheel I had promised myself I would avoid. So I left.

I trained as a coach, built two businesses from scratch, and figured out every tool, system, platform and strategy largely alone. And somewhere in the middle of all that, I kept meeting women doing the same thing. Paying too much. Working too hard. Doing it in isolation.

That is when CEO at Heart® became something real. A community built by someone who has been where you are, knows what it takes, and decided that women building businesses deserve proper support without the fortune, without the overwhelm, and without the loneliness.

Qualifications

Business, marketing, sustainability and coaching.

The combination of disciplines shapes every decision inside CEO at Heart®, from how the platform is structured to how the community is led.

Lisa Padilla
"A world where the founder building her business on her own terms, with limited resources and a lot of heart, has access to the same quality of support, tools and community as anyone else."

That is what CEO at Heart® is here to be. A place where heart and business are not in conflict, where community comes first, and your business can carry you long-term rather than burn you out.

Everyone who resonates with that vision is welcome here, regardless of where you are or how you identify.

Built with and alongside

Partners, experts and collaborators

CEO at Heart® grows through real partnerships, with guest experts, local organisations and the people who show up to build with us.

This could be you
Become a partner
Send us an email
Let's support each other
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How can we collaborate

Want to collaborate? Explore partnership opportunities.

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Based in Skåne, Sweden?

We also meet in person. Regular networking and mingle events in Lund, for members who want real people in a room. Check our upcoming local events.

Ready to find your place?

Start free in the community, or explore the Studio to see what it feels like to have everything in one place.

Want to go deeper into Lisa's story? Read the full biography on lisamariacoaching.com

Enskild Firma Lisa Padilla (Org. nr. 880409-2842), trading as Lisa Maria Coaching and CEO at Heart®