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Liz Bohannon

Liz Bohannon helps organizations build belonging-driven cultures that reduce turnover and boost engagement. A Forbes Top 20 speaker and bestselling author, Liz works with leaders on workplace culture, employee engagement, and community building, backed by her proprietary Community Quotient framework.

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Liz Bohannon, Speaker | CEO & Belonging Expert
Liz Bohannon

Liz Bohannon

Portland, United States

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Liz Bohannon's biography

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  • CEO of a top VC backed company
  • Bestselling author of Beginner's Pluck
  • Forbes top 20 public speaker in the US
Liz Bohannon has built a career around a simple but powerful idea: that belonging at work is not a perk but a competitive advantage. Bohannon is the CEO of a top 1% VC-backed company and the bestselling author of Beginner's Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now. Forbes named her one of the top 20 public speakers in the United States, and her work has been featured in Vogue, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek, which recognized her as a top social entrepreneur. Her proprietary Community Quotient framework gives organizations a measurable way to assess and strengthen workplace connection. Drawing on her experience building a funded company from scratch, Liz translates research and real-world practice into tools that help leaders reduce turnover, increase engagement, and create cultures where people actually want to show up. Audiences leave her sessions with a working understanding of Community Agreements and how to implement them, a clearer picture of where their team's connection gaps are costing them, and practical steps to shift culture without overhauling everything at once. Her podcast, Plucking UP, has extended this work to thousands of listeners worldwide. Booking Liz means giving your audience frameworks they can use the following morning.

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Topics, sessions and talks

The Community Quotient: Designing Workplaces for Connection & Impact
Liz Bohannon explores how building connected workplace cultures drives collaboration, innovation, and resilience in the face of change. Drawing on her experience leading a global brand, she shares what it takes to create meaningful connection rooted in purpose and impact. Attendees will learn how to prioritise people-centric strategies, challenge traditional notions of success, and implement simple but impactful changes that nurture community and keep organisations moving forward.
Beginner's Pluck: Crushing Goals with A Beginner's Mindset
Liz Bohannon draws on her bestselling book Beginner's Pluck to challenge conventional thinking about purpose and ambition. She makes the case for dreaming small as a catalyst for real momentum, and explores how curiosity drives innovation far more than criticism ever could. Attendees will learn how to become better problem finders, why starting small leads to bigger results, and how to stop waiting to find their purpose and start building it instead.
Beginner's Pluck: Collaboration Beats Competition Every Time
Liz Bohannon is the founder of Sseko Designs, a brand that has generated tens of millions in impact revenue and created fair-wage jobs for thousands of artisans worldwide. In this talk, Liz shares how she led a complex M&A merger with competitor Noonday Collection to form the world's largest fair-trade social selling brand. Attendees will learn how to become a stronger collaborator, think creatively, and stay connected to their purpose even when partnering with a competitor.
Beginner's Pluck: Unlock Success with A Beginner's Mindset
Liz Bohannon draws from her bestselling book Beginner's Pluck to challenge audiences to stop dreaming and start doing. She explores how curiosity fuels innovation and how weaving passion into purpose creates real momentum. Attendees will learn how to become a problem finder, embrace a dream small mindset, and give themselves and their teams permission to act, building the foundation needed to achieve big things in the world.

Why we recommend booking Liz

Liz brings her Community Quotient framework directly to your leadership team, giving them a measurable read on where connection gaps are driving turnover. As a Forbes top-20 speaker and funded CEO, she earns the room fast. If retention and culture are on your agenda, she delivers tools your managers can use the week after the event.

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Testimonials

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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

Liz did an outstanding job on both her breakout session and closing keynote. She took care to interview all her breakout participants ahead of time in order to customise the session. Her keynote was powerful and more moving than we anticipated. It created a strong connection with the audience. She was outstanding.

National Systems Contractors Association

Liz killed it! Everyone loved her and her content to the point that there were happy tears because she connected with so many people in the audience. She is amazing!

Tina Tamondong

Simpson Housing

Featured Projects

Beginner's Pluck
Plucking Up Podcast

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Email liz.bohannon@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Liz's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
What is Liz Bohannon's speaking style like?
Liz Bohannon structures her sessions around proprietary frameworks, most notably the Community Quotient, which gives organisations a measurable method for assessing workplace connection. She translates this into actionable tools such as Community Agreements, enabling attendees to implement cultural shifts without wholesale organisational change.
What topics does Liz Bohannon specialise in?
Liz Bohannon speaks on workplace connection and community, beginner's mindset and purpose-building, and collaboration over competition in business growth. She is the bestselling author of Beginner's Pluck and was named by Forbes as one of the top 20 public speakers in the United States.
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