The Body as Leadership Intelligence
Experiential keynotes for organizations navigating complexity, pressure, and change.
Liz is an experienced speaker and facilitator who creates engaging, activational experiences that invite audiences to think differently and lead with greater capacity. She has spoken for women’s ERGs, industry events, and private corporate audiences, and partners with event organizers to tailor each engagement to the needs, challenges, and context of their leaders.
Keynote: The Body Advantage
Leadership Intelligence for a World That's Changed Faster Than We Have
The world leaders are navigating today has changed faster than the way we've been developing them.
The complexity, the pace, the pressure to perform while keeping your people sane and your culture intact — none of this was in the leadership playbook written a decade ago. And the intelligence leaders were trained to rely on — sharp thinking, clear analysis, strategic frameworks — got them here. But it won't get them where they're going.
Because the capacities that define leadership today — regulating under pressure, building genuine trust, reading complex dynamics, making sound decisions in uncertainty, generating creative solutions to problems that have never existed before — don't live only in the thinking mind.
They live in the body.
In this experiential keynote, Liz Doyle Harmer introduces embodied intelligence — a source of leadership intelligence most leaders have never been taught to access. Drawing on neuroscience, her work coaching leaders from Google, Netflix, Marsh McLennan, BMO, and Yum Brands, and a landscape of how forward-thinking organizations are already building this capacity, she makes one thing clear: the leaders who will thrive in complexity are not the ones who think harder. They're the ones who access more of their intelligence.
This isn't a wellness talk. It isn't about slowing down or stepping back. It's about what happens when leaders stop leading from the neck up — and start leading with everything they've got.
Ideal for: leadership conferences, executive and senior leader offsites, HR and leadership development leaders, and organizations navigating change and complexity.
Keynote: Embodied Success
Breaking Through the Hidden Limits in Business Growth
Many entrepreneurs reach a point where their strategy, effort, and intelligence should be producing the next level of success — yet something keeps them circling the same level of results. Often, the body is still organized around a previous level of safety, visibility, or success.
In this experiential keynote, Liz Doyle Harmer explores how embodied intelligence shapes confidence, communication, risk-taking, and leadership in business. Participants learn how reconnecting with the body strengthens three critical capacities — Capacity, Connection, and Creation — allowing entrepreneurs to move beyond hidden internal limits and step into the next level of growth.
Ideal for: entrepreneur conferences, founder communities, startup accelerators, women entrepreneur networks, and small business leadership programs.
Keynote: Reclaiming the Body in Women’s Leadership
Women, Leadership, and Sustainable Power
Women leaders carry an additional layer of invisible work — managing perceptions, navigating expectations, and ensuring their voices are heard in environments that were often not designed with them in mind. Over time, this can create chronic over-effort and disconnection from a powerful resource: the intelligence of the body.
In this experiential keynote, Liz Doyle Harmer explores how reconnecting with the body strengthens three critical leadership capacities: Capacity, Connection, and Creation. Participants gain a new understanding of how embodied awareness supports sustainable leadership, clearer presence, and greater influence.
Ideal for: women’s leadership conferences, women’s ERGs, executive and senior-leader offsites, and organizations focused on retention, wellbeing, and sustainable leadership.
Media + Events
Women’s Leadership, Queen’s Women in Leadership
How to Manage Your Emotions in Business Succession, Turning the Page Podcast
Coaching Your Future Forward, Panel Discussion, Her Seat at the Table
Effectively integrating DE&I in your existing L&D program - Panel Moderator, Future of Work
Yogi, Podcaster, Leadership Coach, 29 Secrets
Yoga, Leadership and Chasing Your Dreams, Power in Heels
Three Ways Mindfulness Can Support High Performance, Women of Influence
Do You Need a Life Coach, Chatelaine Magazine
Moment for Gratitude, Ignition Creativity
Embodied Confidence for Women, Embodiment Conference
Black Lives Here: Embracing Race, Beach Metro
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