Keynote speakers, moderators and panellists for your event
A speaker who speaks from the heart and who makes a positive impact to lives: driving entrepreneurs, corporate teams, leaders and women to aspire to excel, and to dare to be phenomenal.
Liza Pavlakos is a motivational speaker, business mentor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, author and avid supporter of human rights, particularly of disadvantaged women. Today, she travels the world to mobilize people towards discovering "the diamonds within" each and every one of us, inspiring them to reach for their goals with confidence. Drawing on her own inspiring story of incredible resilience, she motivates audiences, ranging from entrepreneurs to corporate executives and business leaders, to triumph over every obstacle, and to get on the path to success.
Having had to negotiate her way through the most challenging circumstances from a very young age, she made the remarkable journey from a homeless, abused teenager to a self-made millionaire entrepreneur. Aged 23, she pulled-off the daunting task of planning and staging a new international beauty pageant – the Miss India International Pageant – which generated around $100,000 in ticket sales in its very first year. Following this initial success, she took the plunge as a young, self-taught businesswoman, to take over and transform a struggling restaurant and bar, Minibar Piccollo. This became one of the most popular cafés in Melbourne. She similarly transformed Finest Alterations, a floundering clothing alteration and tailoring enterprise, into a profitable five-outlet franchise, which now attracts many celebrity clients.
In 2016, she embarked on her new career as a keynote and motivational speaker, being invited to prestigious events such as the 10th Annual HR Congress (Philippines) and 2016 Miss Earth Coronation Night, among others. Liza is already engaging and inspiring thousands of people at various international events and guiding corporate teams to tap their full leadership potential and to achieve their business goals. Liza speaks are international business conferences, and at companies' internal leadership programmes. Audiences range from large senior business executives to young aspiring entrepreneurs to audiences of women leaders in business.
Liza has been featured on CNN as a thought leader from Australia, encouraging women to embrace a positive attitude no matter what the situation, have faith in their innate strength and capabilities, and dare to be phenomenal.
Her book "The Diamonds Within" is due to be published in 2018.
Liza lives with her family in Melbourne.
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Recent speaking engagements have included: The WIN Summit in New York (May 2018) where she delivered her "Discover the Diamonds Within"; The ASFA Conference in Sydney, the largest pensions event in the world, addressing an audience of 1,600 banking leaders; The Spark-Up Leadership Conference tour in Africa, held in Benin City, Nigeria, sponsored by Qatar Airways, and with whom she is partnering in 2018 on two further leadership events.
JM Matienzo, President & CEO, ARIVA! Event Management
"She is a remarkable inspirational speaker and business woman. I have been impressed with her approach to problem-solving, her perseverance, passion and commitment to social challenges. Her maturity and intellectual ability concerning leadership is refreshing, youthful, and positive."Dr Berhan Ahmed, Adjunct Professor, University of Melbourne
Liza is one woman the entire world needs to hear. From her fantastic skills in connecting to people, to the amazing ways she helps people find their self and be a light within using her story as a great learning intervention… Through my consulting career in Nigeria no one has immensely impacted my drive for impact creation and life purpose implementation as Liza has done. Liza is a thought leader in "Becoming a better version of oneself".Gideon Odijie – Lead Partner, PM Hub, Nigeria
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