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Liz inspires & equips leaders to build lives (and careers) of purpose, passion & impact.

What clients are saying about Liz

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • "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

  • “Our retail leaders were touched, inspired and motivated to action because of the power of your words. The power in your talk is not just that you’re a terrific public speaker – which you are. No, what makes your communication powerful and special is the depth of your character, the clarity of your conviction and the purposefulness with which you conduct your work. Your content is smart, fun, intellectually rigorous and delivered in an endearing and compelling manner. All in… spot on and pitch perfect. Thank you for bringing your best to our convention. And thank you for being a difference-maker in this world. You’re a forcing mechanism for good!”

    -John Venhuizen, President & CEO, Ace Hardware Corp

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Signature Keynotes

  • 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."

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Let's talk about...

  • How Curious Cultures unlock progress, innovation and community.

  • How giving yourself (and your team!) permission to dream SMALL can launch your team out of waiting and into creating.

  • Your organizational Community Quotient™️. How connection and community drives healthy leaders & sustainable growth.

Liz’s signature keynotes

  • Investing in the future takes a good deal of conviction and purposefulness which many people are seeking as we emerge from the past few challenging years, but where to begin?

    Besides being the Founder and CEO of socially conscious fashion brand Sseko Designs, Liz Bohanan is a difference maker in this world who Forbes named a “Top 20 public speaker in the U.S.” 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 ultimately transform toward any goal. The power of her personal story building a multi-million dollar, socially conscious brand with purpose and impact will inspire you and motivate you to take action.

    By exploring some of the key principles from her Bestselling Book, Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose & Impact Now, Liz challenges participants to dream small so they can start doing instead of dreaming, and show how curiosity over criticism fuels innovation. 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. The three words she lives by are purpose, passion and impact and everyone can learn to make these a part of their everyday thinking!

    Key Takeaways

    • Become a Problem Finder: Turn your world inside out. By challenging your Inner Beginner, you'll become less overwhelmed with finding the solution and you find new power by first starting with identifying the most interesting problems facing your customers and your community.

    • Dream Small / Achieve BIG: Counterintuitively, when we give ourselves and our people permission to dream small and ACT on those dreams, we create the momentum we need to do BIG things in the world.

    • Collaboration Over Competition: the new approach to working smarter and better together

    • Build (or reconnect) With Your Purpose: Purpose is the “why” that should always be considered first and foremost. When unexpected curveballs are thrown your way, the strongest unifier and innovation-inducer is going back to the basics and embracing a renewed sense of purpose. You don't find your purpose, you build it.

  • Leadership can be an isolating experience. The daily pressure to perform, wrestle with gut-wrenching decisions, and drive hard conversations all weigh on a leader’s soul. Overcoming what can often become a self-fulfilling prophecy of the lonely leader is not only crucial to your survival but also to those you lead.

    Drawing on her experiences as a successful entrepreneur and founder of Sseko Designs, Liz Bohannon understands the pressures that leaders face to have all the answers and make hard choices in a complex and quickly changing landscape. She’s seen what a leader support system can provide: more educated decision-making, improved team dynamics, and increased mental health for leaders and society at large. Walk away from this talk ready to embrace vulnerability in a new way and build authentic connections and a community that can support you in the challenges ahead.

    Key Takeaways

    • Actively identify your personal “Board of Directors”: how to surround yourself with people that will support and inspire you

    • Learn the difference between community and culture and why both are important

    • Gain a new perspective on why positive mental health matters

    • Learn how to better manage the sacrifices you may be making in pursuit of success