A native New Yorker, Lisa Miller Autry retired from a 32-year banking career in 2019 where she most recently served as Senior Vice President & Dallas Market Manager for a $38 billion banking organization. In that capacity, she led teams of commercial bankers in providing financial services to businesses, churches, and other non-profits in the Dallas Metroplex. Lisa now serves as a consultant to non-profit and for-profit organizations through her firms, Holy Borrowers, LLC and Acceleration Advisors, LLC. Lisa accepted her call to ministry in October 1998 and was ordained as a minister in January 2004. She has served in a wide range of leadership functions at Christ Community in Richardson, TX, where her husband, Dr. Terrence Autry, is the Lead Pastor. Lisa also preaches and teaches in churches and conferences nationally and abroad; was featured in Precious Times magazine as one of its 50 Faithful and was a contributing devotional writer to Aspire: The New Women of Color Study Bible. Lisa's educational background includes a Master's degree in Cross-Cultural Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary, an M.B.A. degree in Finance & Marketing from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA, and a B.A. degree in Economics from Brown University. She and her husband have been married for over 30 years and are the proud parents of two adult sons.
