.svg)
Delivered at one of Manitoba's most prominent celebrations of Chinese business excellence, this keynote used the spirit of Lunar New Year and its traditional wishes of fortune as a lens through which to examine a harder truth: that fortune, by design, has not been distributed equitably across racialized communities in Canada.
Liz grounded the talk in sharp data on the racialized wealth and income gap, drawing on RBC research to show that closing the disparity between racialized and non-racialized business ownership would add 100,000 new businesses to the Canadian economy. Rather than leaving the audience with statistics alone, she moved quickly into solutions, offering business leaders and community allies concrete actions to actively close the gap through hiring, funding, financial literacy, and intentional partnership with racialized entrepreneurs.
Woven through the data was her own story as a newcomer who built wealth from nothing, navigated years of covert and overt discrimination, and came out the other side with a clear mission: to use the privilege she earned to break down the barriers she once faced. The talk challenged the audience not just to celebrate their own success but to become active architects of access for the next generation of first-generation wealth creators.
