ENTREPRENEUR, PODCAST HOST, & KEYNOTE SPEAKER
meet liz
Liz is an entrepreneur, executive coach, best-selling author and Forbes Top 20 speaker who will surprise, challenge & inspire your community into action.
WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
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“Liz Bohannon is a delight to work with! She tailored her talk to meet our Global Leadership Summit audience needs while at the same time making it a unique and creative expression of herself. Liz is an amazing storyteller, communicates with passion, and shares wisdom that is applicable. Her talk was among the highest rated from our entire event and one of the most requested by our global community. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone more inspiring!”
-Lori Hermann, Executive Producer of the Global Leadership Summit
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“Liz is a speaker who is NOT to be missed. She is known for her fun and dynamic speaking style and her personal stories about taking risks, building a brand with purpose, and striving for gender equality and social enterprise at universities, conferences, and gatherings across the globe.” -Brian Rashid, Forbes
-Brian Rashid, Forbes
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“In addition to being an incredibly gifted communicator, Liz Forkin Bohannon is truly a transformational leader. Her belief that each person was created for a purpose is evident in the way she leads, inspires and motivates others to build a life of passion and purpose. Her honesty, grit, and commitment to justice ignites others to create a positive impact in the world and be a part of something bigger than themselves.”
John Maxell
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“Liz Bohannon will inspire your audience. Her story is powerful, and she can connect with young and old, CEO or entrepreneur and bridges the gap of not just inspiring, but also providing practical lessons that can be applied immediately.”
Brad Lomenick, President & Executive Director of Catalyst
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"Liz is everything I could ask for in a keynote speaker: Engaging, informative, innovative, fun, and inspiring. Her smart and actionable content was only surpassed by her genuine humility and desire to connect with our audience. Amongst world-class speakers, Liz’s presentation was rated at the top of the charts by our audience. Don't hesitate to book Liz for your next event."
Joe Boyd, CEO of Leadercast
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“Our retail leaders were touched, inspired and motivated to action because of the power of Liz's words. The power in your talk is not just that she is a terrific public speaker – which she is. No, what makes herr communication powerful and special is the depth of her character, the clarity of her conviction and the purposefulness with which she conducts her work. Liz's content is smart, fun, intellectually rigorous and delivered in an endearing and compelling manner. All in… spot on and pitch perfect.
-John Venhuizen, President & CEO, Ace Hardware Corp
Book Liz to Speak
Signature Keynotes
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In addition to being a Forbe's Top 20 speaker, Liz Bohannon is a founder and entrepreneur. By sharing her unique story of applying a Beginner’s Mind to everything she does, Liz shows how this powerful mindset shift leads to innovation, creativity and growth.
By exploring some of the key principles from her Bestselling Book, Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose & Impact Now, Liz gives her audience permission to dream small (with BIG DREAM ENERGY.)
She sets the stage for the audience to take a personal journey down the ultimate path of success by weaving passion & purpose into their every goal.
Funny, inspiring, deprecating and MOTIVATING, this talk will help move your community of our waiting and into creating. -
In addition to being a top 1% VC-backed female founder, Liz has become a leading expert and authority in one of the single most valuable investments leaders can make to create massive impact: Connection and community.
Liz Bohannon's forward-thinking and time-tested strategies inspire audiences with her lived experiences of building global and local communities as well as actionable principles that will help your community feel more connected to their purpose, to one another, and to your shared mission so you can reach new heights of impact and success, together.
Funny, accessible, impactful and deeply inspiring, this talk will help transform "community consumers" into "community co-creators."
Submit an inquiry and a member of Liz’s management team will contact you within 1-2 business days →
It’s time to move out of waiting & into creating.
In addition to being the founder and CEO of socially conscious fashion brand Sseko Designs, Liz Bohannon is a world-class communicator, named a “Top 20 public speaker in the U.S.” by Forbes. By sharing her unique story of applying a Beginner’s Mind to everything she does, Liz shows how this mindset will help to escape the normal constraints that hold people back and give them new pathways to pivot, innovate, and accomplish their goals. The power of her personal story of building a multi-million dollar, socially conscious brand with purpose and impact will inspire you and motivate you to take action.
(P)luckily, you don’t have to stay there…there is a better way to think (and build!) a life of purpose, passion & impact….
What if…
I’m Liz, an entrepreneur, community builder & storyteller
What if the ubiquitous “inspirational messaging” like “Dream Big!” and “Find Your Passion!” are actually contributing to leaders and their people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and afraid?
Accomplished social entrepreneur and best-selling author Liz Bohannon challenges everything you think you know about success and passion and teaches you and your team the mentalities, mindsets, and principles that will actually launch you out of waiting and into creating while embracing the importance of community.
INTERESTING ideas
Backed up with IRL experience
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Beginner’s Pluck: Crushing Goals with A Beginner’s Mindset
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Choosing Collaboration Over Competition
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It’s Lonely at the Top. (But it doesn't have to be.)
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Subscribe TO THE PLUCKING UP PODCAST
Hosted by founder and social entrepreneur Liz Bohannon, Plucking Up is a podcast that talks about failures beyond the platitudes and how celebrated authors, entrepreneurs, artists and leaders in their own field moved past mistakes and wrong turns, in order to build lives of purpose, passion and impact.
EP. 28 Matthew McConaughey on Guilt, Shame, and Freedom
THE MOST POPULAR EPISODES
NO. 24
Arianna Huffington on failure…
NO. 28
Matthew Mcconaughey on guilt, shame…
NO. 1
Liz Gilbert on trusting your intuition…
LEARN ON YOUR TIME, IN YOUR WAY
A #1 NEW RELEASE NAMED BY FORBES AS A “MUST READ”
In her signature tell-it-like-it-is fashion, entrepreneur Liz Forkin Bohannon shows you how to cultivate the mindsets that will help you live like you were made on purpose and for a purpose. Sharing the hilarious and heartbreaking stories of her own screwups and successes, Liz shows you how to
⚡️ Embrace your Inner Beginner
⚡️ Dream small
⚡️ Choose curiosity over criticism
⚡️ Own your average
⚡️ …and so much more
It's within your power to build a life of purpose, passion, and impact. All you need is a little bit of PLUCK!
BOOK REVIEWS
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“Brave, practical, and true, Liz shares her magical journey for anyone brave enough (and generous enough) to want to go on the journey of a lifetime.” - Seth Godin
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"The transformative force that Liz Forkin Bohannon is fiercely shines on every page of this book. Beginner's Pluck is the catalytic push and heart check we need to boldly choose purpose over popularity and to live our lives not to impress but to make impact--REAL, lasting impact. Liz shares invaluable insights that cleverly disrupt norms so prevalent throughout culture today, exposing stale perceptions of success while freeing us to thrive in purposeful lives built with intention, gut-honest truth, and creativity. Liz's story will no doubt fuel an unleashing of world changers disbanding fear, owning average, and accomplishing the extraordinary." Kanita Benson, founder of She Saves a Nation
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“Beginner’s Pluck is a thoughtful book about what Liz has been strategically doing in the world, not merely optimistically hoping for. As you flip these pages, you won’t want to be more like Liz. Instead, you’ll want to figure out what your next steps are to release your passions, hopes, and love into the world which is in desperate need of someone just like you to engage it.” - Bob Goff, hon. consul for the Republic of Uganda and author of New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always.
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“I am so very glad this book exists. We have long needed Liz’s expert voice speaking into the mind of dreamers and doers, the ones who have the ideas and want to execute, and the ones who are exhaustedly executing. We want purpose in our day, and Liz does it with her life and teaches it here.” -Annie F. Downs, bestselling author of 100 Days to Brave & That Sounds Fun
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“Witty and full of brilliant insight, Liz Bohannon delivers a much-needed antidote to a Western mindset careening between youthful entitlement and shame/fear-based inertia. Most of us who dream to be extraordinary have never learned first to be ordinary.” -Wm Paul Young, International bestselling author of The Shack.
-John Maxwell
