Liz has led and seen start-ups and revitalizations from several angles: as the President of the Yale Club of Phoenix, as a business owner, as a coach, and as a business/marketing consultant for up-in-coming artists. She served as the President of the Yale Club of Phoenix (fall ’13-fall ’15). With the help of the Club’s leadership, she’s revitalized a dormant organization, completely updated its op
erations and legal standing, adopted an underprivileged elementary school, and worked to ease generational tension within the Club. The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) asked Liz to create a process outline for the Club’s 501-c3 application process and used this document for the entirety of the 501-c3 lecture at the 2015 AYA Presidents’ Summit. Teach for America, the organization the Club adopted the school through, also asked Liz for a process outline (2015), as they’d never seen an organization have such a school-wide impact so quickly. They’re hoping other corporations and organizations will use the Club’s work as a model. She was asked to contribute to The Good Men Project (over 1.5 million viewers each week visit this website discussing what it means to be a good man in the 21st century), and wrote “Perfect vs. Real: How to Enjoy Our Partners’ Imperfections” (6/20/14). Her interest in business and leadership began in college. ~2005, she read Keith Ferrazzi’s “Never Eat Alone” and had an airplane conversation with a man who developed and grew small to mid-sized businesses. It was all too cool! Her first internship project under the Chairman of the Board of Melbourne, Australia’s community-run TV station gave her a look at an organization and all its moving parts (2006). And she heard stories about the organizations board and its history–things the chairman was proud of and moments he wish he’d handled differently. Liz is from Scottsdale, AZ, and after finding resonance in her first psychology class (Oxford ’01), she studied Psychology and Emotional Intelligence at Yale (’07), where she was a D-1 Springboard Diver training with the Olympics in mind. She now serves as the Director of Educational Outreach for the Yale Club of Phoenix and is part of Vitalyst Health Foundation’s CAN Forums (Change Agent Network).
