Liz Wiseman

Liz Wiseman is a leadership researcher, executive advisor, and keynote speaker, and the CEO of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research-and-development firm based in Silicon Valley. She teaches and advises executives around the world and is a guest lecturer at Brigham Young University and Stanford University. Before founding her firm, Liz spent 17 years at Oracle Corporation, where she was a vice president and served as the global leader for human-resource development at Oracle University. She left to study leadership directly, asking why some leaders seem to make everyone around them smarter while others, often unintentionally, shut that intelligence down. That research became _Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter_, a New York Times bestseller and the framework that distinguishes "Multipliers" from "Diminishers." She followed it with _The Multiplier Effect_ (applying the idea to education), _Rookie Smarts_ (a Wall Street Journal bestseller on why learning beats knowing), and _Impact Players_ (2021), on the mindsets of the highest-contributing team members. In 2019 she was ranked the #1 leadership thinker in the world by Thinkers50, and she has appeared repeatedly on the Thinkers50 list since. Her research is used inside many of the world's most admired companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Disney, and Tesla. She holds a bachelor's in business management and a master's in organizational behavior from Brigham Young University.