Liz Strauss, an accomplished business coach, speaker, and retreat producer, is renowned for her ability to distill complex concepts into easy-to-understand advice that helps individuals and companies meet their goals. Liz built her expertise by focusing on branding, community, content, and customer relationships. Liz has been recognized as one of the top ten influencers alive, alongside top names such as Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Virgin founder Richard Branson, by the Huffington Post. The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and others have also recognized her as an accomplished social marketer.

Liz learned leadership skills early and began by assisting teachers when she was only ten years old. She later majored in Education in college and was recognized as a master teacher. Her work in educational publishing involved building products for students from pre-K to graduate school and working with C-suite publishers on four continents.

In 2007, Liz founded GeniusShared, a business retreat that has fueled business growth worldwide. She also designed SOBCon, a game-changing business retreat, that has helped attendees build custom-fit action plans for their goals using everyone's expertise. Liz helps individuals and organizations break down silos, accelerate their business growth, coach new managers, plan strategy with the C-suite, build a game-changing team retreat, or create fiercely loyal employee and customer communities that bring their friends.