Food can change society. Born in London, U.K. to adventurous foodies who cooked meals at home from scratch with ingredients sourced from around the world, Lianne started cooking for the family, at 14 years old with skills learned from her parents and experimenting with recipes from cookery writers and chefs such as Elizabeth David, Robert Carrier, and the Roux Brothers. Lianne has a deep understanding of what extraordinary food tastes like and believes it is a fundamental human right to eat exceptional high-quality food. Through her work with Soil2Service she hopes to make this attainable by anyone in the United States.

We can change the environment. We can share our diverse cultural stories through food, building empathy and community, and change social inequalities such as poor nutrition, health outcomes, and unemployment. “The greatest gift I can give is lovingly preparing a meal for friends and family.”

Lianne is passionate about helping people develop Mental Toughness – a significant factor in enhancing performance, creating wellbeing, and developing positive behaviors. She employs theories, principles, and techniques from humanistic psychology, positive psychology, and, as a practicing Buddhist, mindfulness to help her clients achieve long-term positive shifts in their performance by gaining a deep understanding of the way they experience the world and get to the very core of their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Through her company, Mind Tough, Lianne has coached global executives in top 20 Fortune 500 companies, leadership teams of startups, and everywhere in between. Her clients want to expand their thinking way beyond the limitations they set and the stories they create about their experiences and want to deeply examine and challenge their own conscious thoughts and feelings to attain significant, life-changing results.

“Food is our common ground. A universal experience.” James Beard