Liz Strauss is an engaging, intelligent, and profoundly relevant speaker, retreat producer, and business coach. She has built authority where personal development fuels business growth -- branding, community, content, and customer relationships. Liz leads by distilling complex (and seemingly disconnected) human business data into elegantly simple concepts and then helping leaders apply those concepts to focus in on the next best steps to meet their goals.​Liz Strauss speaks softly and carries a lot of street cred. Recognition by Huffington Post as one of The Top Ten Influencers Alive (next to Oprah and Warren Buffet) and further recognition as an accomplished social marketer by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and others.has made Liz a sought after executive coach, team trainer, and keynote speaker. Liz learned leadership early. At 10, a first grade teacher asked Liz to be a teaching assistant. By 17, Liz had gone from assisting to teaching the whole class. In college Liz majored in Education. Senior year, when Liz presented her honors thesis, the Dean of the School of Education introduced Liz by saying, "I've met five master teachers. This is one." Liz loved teaching, but needed to do more. So she moved to educational publishing, building products for students from pre-K to graduate school at MIT and working with C-suite publishers on four continents.. Liz ​founded ​GeniusShared and SOBCon -- the game-changing​ business ​retreats​ that have fueled business growth since 2007. Liz designed the deeply collaborative format that challenges participants to use everyone's expertise as they build an action plan custom fit to their goals.Bring in Liz to help you and your team break down silos and accelerate your business growth. Hire Liz to coach a new manager, plan strategy with the C-suite, build a game-changing team retreat, or help you build communities of fiercely loyal employees and customers who bring their friends.