Liz Wiseman

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Liz Wiseman is the former VP of Oracle University and the global leader for Human Resource Development. Wiseman is the author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Liz Wiseman is president and founder of Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm operating out of Silicon Valley. Her services have been employed by some of the true global giants in business such as Apple, Nike, PayPal and Twitter. On the Thinkers50 rankings she is recognized as being one of the ten most significant leadership thinkers on the planet.

Liz Wiseman holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Masters in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. Wiseman originally developed her thoughts on leadership in her position as an executive at Oracle Corporation, where for seventeen years she was Vice President of Oracle University and the global leader for Human Resource Development.

Liz Wiseman’s wide-ranging research into leadership and collective intelligence has resulted in two books, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (a Wall Street Journal bestseller) and The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools. She writes for the Harvard Business Review among other respected publications.

As well as her global teaching activities and speeches, Liz Wiseman is in demand as a frequent guest lecturer at her alma mater, Brigham Young University, Harvard, the Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford and Yale.

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