Her Story
About Lisa
Lisa Williams serves as a Senior Certified Pharmacy Technician at Walgreens, a role she has held for the past four years. In this position she manages daily pharmacy operations, processes prescriptions through billing and insurance systems, receives orders from physicians, and fills medications while seeking to connect personally with patients facing illness. Prior to this, she spent over 40 years in the beauty industry as a licensed cosmetologist, operating multiple salons, providing hairstyling, facial, and skincare services, selling hair products to businesses, and delivering skincare education and consultations to oncology patients in hospital settings. She graduated high school in 1983, attended beauty school, earned a bachelor's degree in cosmetology, and studied marketing and advertising at Tulane University. Lisa attributes her professional success to her faith, describing God as love and viewing her work as a reflection of that principle. She emphasizes values of honesty and loyalty in both her professional and personal life, advises young women entering the field to begin with education and build from foundational skills, and recommends putting one's heart into work rather than treating it solely as a job. Outside of her role she volunteers in her community through her church, assisting neighbors with groceries, food, and encouragement.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Lisa
01What do you attribute your success to?
My success is knowing who my creator is. See, God is love. And because we can imitate him, because he created us in his image, I'm allowing myself to present him in a different way. Myself. It's kind of like a reflection of a mirror. That's why I think I'm able to attribute my success to being able to know who he is.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Put your heart into it. Love what you do. And don't look at it as a job. Put your being into it. Love what you do. And if you love what you do, then you're gonna always be successful. Always find something that you love about what you do, and put your heart into it.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Education is definitely important. You have to start with education first. Get to know what you're doing, and decide from there whether you want to continue to do it, because you have to understand what you're doing first before you can be good at something. You have to start from the bottom, you have to start from the beginning. It's the elementary things that matter the most. If you can cultivate the elementary skill sets, then grow from them, develop yourself. And then the sky's the limit from there.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Getting people to feel the same way I do. It's hard to connect with people sometimes because you're dealing with illnesses, people are down. It's hard to connect with people sometimes. Because you have a job to do. And I think that sometimes creates a disconnect. Because it's not always about a task being driven, it's about the customer first, or the patient first.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Honesty and loyalty. You have to be transparent, you have to be honest. And then you have to stick to what you believe is the truth. So you have to first be honest. You have to be truthful. And then, you have to stick to what you know.
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