Drew Weissman
2023 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine | Co-Inventor of mRNA Vaccine Technology | Director, Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
Liz Wiseman
CEO, The Wiseman Group | Thinkers50 Leadership & Talent Award Winner | Bestselling Author of Multipliers & Impact Players | Leadership & Talent Expert
Liz Wiseman is the leadership researcher who introduced the world to Multipliers, the leaders who make everyone around them smarter. CEO of The Wiseman Group, a Thinkers50 award winner, and author of four bestsellers, she gives senior audiences evidence-based frameworks to unlock team intelligence, develop high-impact contributors, and lead through constant change. Her keynotes turn research into tools leaders use immediately.
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Liz Wiseman biography
One of the world’s most influential voices on leadership, Liz Wiseman is a researcher, executive advisor, and CEO of The Wiseman Group, a Silicon Valley leadership research and development firm. Her work has shaped how executives at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Disney, Nike, Tesla, Salesforce, Coca-Cola, and Netflix think about talent, intelligence, and performance. Leadership speaker Liz Wiseman turns rigorous research into frameworks that senior teams can put to work immediately.
Wiseman is best known for the concept of Multipliers, leaders who amplify the intelligence and capability of the people around them, as opposed to Diminishers, who drain energy and suppress talent. First laid out in her New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, the framework now anchors executive development programs at many leading organizations. Her later books, The Multiplier Effect, the Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work, and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact, each broadened her focus from how leaders lead to how people contribute at their highest level.
Before founding The Wiseman Group, she spent 17 years as an executive at Oracle Corporation, where she served as Vice President of Oracle University and global leader for Human Resource Development. That mix of sustained executive experience and field research gives her a credibility few management thinkers can claim. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s degree in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University, and lectures regularly at BYU and Stanford University.
Thinkers50 Recognition and Global Impact
Thinkers50, described by the Financial Times as the Oscars of management thinking, has consistently ranked Wiseman among the world’s top management thinkers. She won its Leadership Award in 2019 and its Talent Award in 2023, and Impact Players was named to the Thinkers50 Best New Management Books list. Inc. Magazine also named her to its Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts. She writes regularly for Harvard Business Review and Fortune, and executives across industries cite her ideas among the most practically useful in the field.
As a speaker, Liz Wiseman brings the same rigor and clarity to the stage that define her research. Her keynotes convert complex data into frameworks that leaders can apply the next morning, whether they are high-potential managers or C-suite executives. Audiences leave with practical tools to unlock team intelligence, recognize high-impact contributors, and lead with curiosity rather than authority. For organizations facing rapid change, talent pressure, or the demand to do more with less, her work turns insight into measurable results.
Liz Wiseman Speaking Videos
Liz Wiseman - The Power of Not Knowing
Liz Wiseman - Living and working with child-like wonder
Liz Wiseman Keynote Topics
The best leaders don't simply attract talent, they multiply it. Drawing on her landmark study of Multipliers and Diminishers, Wiseman lays out the disciplines that separate leaders who shrink their teams from those who stretch them. Audiences see how small changes in everyday leadership, the way work is assigned, questions are asked, and mistakes are handled, can sharply raise a team's output, innovation, and engagement. Leaders leave with a way to audit their own habits and a practical path from diminishing to multiplying.
Why do some professionals create outsized value while equally capable colleagues plateau? Based on a study of 170 standout contributors and interviews with the executives who manage them, Wiseman identifies the mindsets and practices that set high-impact people apart. This session helps individual contributors and their managers understand what genuinely valuable work looks like, and how to build a culture where that kind of contribution becomes the norm.
When disruption is constant, certainty becomes a liability. Wiseman makes the case that the curiosity, hunger, and resourcefulness of a beginner are exactly the qualities that drive breakthrough performance, and that leaders who hold onto them keep outperforming those who don't. This keynote invites senior leaders to treat not-knowing as an advantage, and gives teams a framework for staying adaptive and relevant as their environment keeps shifting.
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FAQs on Booking Liz Wiseman
Why Liz Wiseman?
Booking Liz Wiseman is a strategic investment in how your leaders develop talent. Ranked among the world's top management thinkers by Thinkers50, named to Inc. Magazine's Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, and author of four bestselling books, she delivers research-backed insight that leaders can apply at every level. Her Multipliers framework is already in use inside executive teams at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many other global companies. Whether your audience is emerging managers or a senior leadership team, she leaves them with concrete tools to unlock talent and lead with greater impact. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to check Liz Wiseman's availability for your event.
What is Liz Wiseman's Multipliers concept?
Wiseman's Multipliers research describes two kinds of leaders. Multipliers amplify the intelligence and capability of the people around them, while Diminishers drain energy and keep teams dependent on them. Across interviews with hundreds of leaders in many industries, she found that Multipliers get roughly twice the output from their teams as Diminishers, without adding headcount or budget. Introduced in her New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, the idea has become a cornerstone of leadership development programs at some of the world's most respected organizations.
What is Liz Wiseman's book Impact Players about?
Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact shifts the focus from how leaders lead to how individuals create real value. Drawing on research with 170 top contributors and interviews with the senior leaders who work with them, Wiseman identifies five practices that set high-impact people apart: they figure out the job that actually needs doing, step up without waiting to be asked, and finish what they start. The book became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and earned a place on Thinkers50's Best New Management Books list.
What topics does leadership speaker Liz Wiseman cover?
Liz Wiseman speaks on leadership development, team and talent performance, the Multiplier and Diminisher framework, high-impact contribution, and building cultures of learning. Her talks are grounded in original research and illustrated with real examples from her work with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other global companies, and she tailors each one to executive audiences, HR and people leaders, or high-potential manager programs. To bring Liz Wiseman to your event through Aurum Speakers Bureau, send us your details and we will respond within 24 hours.
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