Lisa Schott

Founder, Owner, President, and Principal Acoustical Consultant
Quietly Making Noise, LLC.

Lisa Schott is the President and Principal Acoustical Consultant at Quietly Making Noise, LLC, a company she founded in 2002. She is an entrepreneur with over 40 years' experience in the energy and building construction industries and has started several successful businesses. She has partially retired to allow plenty of time for philanthropic pursuits.

Lisa received a Bachelor's degree with highest honors in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, National Council of Acoustical Consultants, Acoustical Society of America, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an Emeritus Member of the Advisory Board for the Georgia Tech George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. She holds U.S. Patent 7,562,743 for an Acoustical Window and Door Covering.

Lisa was twice named the Engineer of the Year by the Florida Section of ASME and was appointed to the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni of Georgia Tech. She received the Orlando Women's Executive Council Achievement Award in Science and Technology.

Lisa received a scholarship from the Mercury 7 Foundation from 1987-1990 (now Astronaut Scholarship Foundation). She has stayed involved throughout her life and is Vice Chair of the ASF Board of Directors, Chair of the Board of Trustees, serves on its Executive Committee and Scholarship Selection Committee, is Founder of the Astronaut Scholars Honor Society, and has served as Chair of the Strategic Planning Task Force and Program Committee.

In addition to ASF, her philanthropic endeavors include membership in the Henri Landwirth Society of Give Kids The World (GKTW) and the Foundation for Seminole State College Weldon Society. She and her husband, George, are founding donors of the Jennifer Lynn Schott Childhood Arthritis Clinic at Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida and the Schott Family Endowment for Pediatric Rheumatology Advancement. She and George were named the 2024 Philanthropists of the Year for Central Florida.