{{Short description|New Zealand social entrepreneur}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2025}}
'''Lisa King''' is a New Zealand social entrepreneur.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LISA KING |url=https://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/jury/lisa-king |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=www.cartierwomensinitiative.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2016 she won the New Zealand Women of Influence Award for business enterprise.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Hire Lisa King for your next event. |url=https://www.celebrityspeakers.co.nz/speakers/lisa-king |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Celebrity Speakers NZ |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
== Biography == King's parents emigrated to New Zealand from China and ran businesses such as a restaurant and an acupuncturist clinic.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Entrepreneur Lisa King on what it takes to find business success |url=https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/06/18/entrepreneur-lisa-king-on-what-it-takes-to-find-business-success/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=1News |language=en}}</ref>
She spent 15 years working in corporate marketing in large businesses such as Unilever, Fonterra, Heinz Watties and Cadbury's.<ref name=":1" /> In 2015, King launched Eat My Lunch, a social enterprise which provides free lunches to children in low-income schools.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Lisa King |url=https://www.blakenz.org/person/lisa-king/#:~:text=Former%20corporate%20marketer%20Lisa%20King,learn,%20by%20filling%20their%20bellies. |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Blake NZ |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
In 2016, she won the New Zealand Women of Influence Award for business enterprise.<ref name=":1" /> In 2019, King was named New Zealand's Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baker |first=Glenn |date=2019-03-11 |title=Meet NZ's top female entrepreneur |url=https://nzbusiness.co.nz/news/meet-nzs-top-female-entrepreneur |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=NZBusiness Magazine |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
In 2020, she founded AF Drinks, an alcohol-free beverage company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LISA KING |url=https://us.af-drinks.com/blogs/alcohol-free-af-stories/lisa-king-af-drinks-founder |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Free AF |language=en}}</ref>
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