CEO, Douglass Screen Printers
Lakeland, FL

Lisa Kaiser Hickey is president and CEO of Douglass Screen Printers,  a screen and digital printing company based in Lakeland, Fla. The Tampa  Bay Business Journal has ranked Ms. Hickey as a Top-75 Woman-Owned  Business in the Tampa Bay area for seven consecutive years. The firm  was named in DiversityBusiness.Com’s 2007 Top 500 Women-Owned  Businesses in Florida, and is a Top 50 Printer to the U.S. Government  Printing Office.

Ms. Hickey writers frequently for the Polk County Business Journal  and has appeared in articles on entrepreneurial women in national  publications including the New York Times, USA Today and Entrepreneur’s  Exchange magazine as well as in local media publications.

Ms. Hickey is the Immediate Past President of the National  Association of Women Business Owners, the North American Regional  Commissioner for FCEM (a global association of women entrepreneurs) and  the Chair of the First United Methodist Church Long Range Planning  Committee. She also serves on the Executive Committee and Board of  Trustees of the Polk Museum of Art, University of South Florida Public  Broadcasting Advisory Board, Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Board,  and Lakeland’s TEC Advisory Council. She is a member of the USF  President’s Advisory Council, the Lakeland Economic Development  Council, and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP). She is a Life Loyal  member of Delta Delta Delta as well as a lifetime Girl Scout.

Ms. Hickey began her career in 1975 as an artist with Douglass  Screen Printers. Former positions include Production Manager at Atlanta  Creative Graphics and Production Manager of ACG Enterprises as a  licensee of the Mead Corporation. She served at the invitation of the  White House on a steering committee for the 2003 Women’s  Entrepreneurial Summit in Tampa. She was a member of The Executive  Committee (TEC), an international organization of CEOs, for nine years.

Ms. Hickey holds an MBA from Florida Southern College and a BA in  Fine Arts from Florida Southern College. She is a graduate of  Leadership Lakeland Class XIX.