Winnipeg Women’s Conference

Liz drew on her personal journey from South Korea to Canada as a teenager with no safety net, no language, and no blueprint to a PE-backed CEO who built nine figures in enterprise value. The talk challenged the audience to interrogate their relationship with executive ambition, identity, and wealth on their own terms rather than through the lens of institutions that were never designed with them in mind.

Liz shared the personal cost of suppressing her identity to fit a corporate mould and what it took to reclaim the ferocious, clear-eyed leader she had always been. Grounded in real data on women of colour in leadership, the session moved between the structural and the deeply personal, leaving the audience with three actionable frameworks: break ground rather than glass ceilings, become the role model you never had, and use power and privilege deliberately and in service of others.