Liz Wiseman
Liz Wiseman is a leadership researcher, speaker and author of Multipliers, Rookie Smarts and Impact Players who studies how people bring out the best in others.
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- Work
- Author, leadership researcher, speaker and executive advisor
- Based
- Silicon Valley, California
- Before the books
- 17 years at Oracle, including leadership roles at Oracle University
- Education
- Bachelor’s in business management and master’s in organizational behavior, Brigham Young University
- Breakout book
- Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (2010)
Mini bio
How it started.
Liz’s path into leadership teaching ran through Oracle. She spent 17 years there and became vice president of Oracle University and global leader for human resource development. Watching bright leaders bring out very different responses in their teams gave her a question to investigate: why do some people make everyone around them more capable?
The book that introduced her ideas.
Published in 2010 with Greg McKeown, Multipliers gave readers a way to recognize leaders who draw out other people’s intelligence and those who suppress it. The book drew on the experiences of 150 leaders across countries and cultures and became a New York Times bestseller.
Following the questions.
She brought that research into education with Lois Allen and Elise Foster in The Multiplier Effect. Rookie Smarts explored why being new can help people learn and perform, while Impact Players examined how individuals make themselves useful and increase their contribution.
Where fans meet her now.
As CEO of The Wiseman Group, Liz continues to turn leadership research into books, talks and practical resources. She writes for Harvard Business Review and Fortune and is a frequent guest lecturer at BYU and Stanford. Her interviews often return to a familiar concern: how to help people think, contribute and grow.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2021Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your ImpactAuthor
- 2017Multipliers, Revised and UpdatedAuthor
- 2014Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of WorkAuthor
- 2013The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our SchoolsCoauthor with Lois Allen and Elise Foster
- 2010Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone SmarterAuthor, with Greg McKeown
Awards
Quotes
Amazing things happen when you figure out what the agenda is, and then you work on it.Liz Wiseman, 2 Pages with MBS
Quoted on her official biography page from the Impact Players conversation, at 33:27.
Trivia
- Her first Multipliers book includes a foreword by Stephen R. Covey.
- The Multiplier Effect grew out of more than 100 interviews with school leaders.
- For her Everybody Leads appearance, she designated Ravenswood Classroom Partners as the charity to support.
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