Liz McMillan is a Strategic Alignment Advisor and Keynote Speaker who works with CEOs and executives to create alignment and expand what is possible for their teams and businesses.
Across 15 years in executive leadership in Australia and the US, Liz has evaluated, acquired, integrated, transformed and exited businesses. Her career spans public companies, private equity, founder-led businesses and high-growth scaleups, giving her an unusual perspective on what separates organisations that struggle to translate ambition into performance from those that create enduring value.
As CEO of Dictionary.com, Liz transformed a declining business stuck in the status quo, culminating in an exit at 2.5 times its prior valuation. As CEO of Teach Starter, she professionalised a founder-dependent business, taking it from unsellable to a successful exit. Earlier, as SVP of Corporate Development at IAC Publishing, Liz evaluated hundreds of acquisition opportunities and oversaw six acquisitions and integrations representing $500 million in deals.
But Liz’s experience has also taught her that the problems organisations experience as separate—strategy that stalls, decisions that drag, great people who disengage and conflict that consumes energy—are often connected by something deeper: misalignment.
Known for truth-telling with humility, Liz connects people dynamics with commercial outcomes, sees patterns others miss and asks the questions others avoid.
Today, through her advisory work and keynote The Truth About Performance, Liz challenges leaders to confront the mistruths limiting their organisations and explore what becomes possible when Truth creates Alignment.