Lisa Morrison Butler

Executive Vice President and Chief Impact Officer


Lisa Morrison Butler is Executive Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at Results for America. Lisa previously served as Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Family & Support Services in two mayoral administrations. During her tenure, she led organizational transformation aimed at greater overall impact, overhauling the department’s approach to contracting and improving performance, embedding a focus on outcomes across seven program divisions and encompassing 60 program models.

Earlier in her career, Lisa held senior positions in the non-profit and private sectors.

Morrison Butler holds a B.S. degree from Indiana University and pursued post-graduate studies at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

Read Lisa’s “Innovator Interview” with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab on her efforts to improve outcomes at Chicago’s Department of Family and Support Services.

Read in Government Technology about Lisa’s work at the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) to stand up the City of Chicago government’s first data warehouse.