Grounded. Provocative. Transformational.

Get The Most Out Of Your Team

Your teams are stuck and you know it. They’re having the same unproductive meetings, avoiding the conversations that matter, and burning out from carrying invisible loads that no one talks about. You’ve tried the usual fixes—more communication, clearer roles, team-building exercises—but here’s the thing: the fundamental problems are still there.

As an organizational psychologist, Liane gets why smart, capable teams still can’t seem to get out of their own way. Most approaches just treat the symptoms. She goes after the behavioral patterns underneath.

When your audience hears Liane speak, they’ll finally understand why they avoid productive conflict, how their thoughtload is holding them back, and what makes accountability feel like a punishment instead of empowerment. More importantly, every insight comes with tools they can put to use right away.

Your people will walk away with a complete reset for how they think about leadership, collaboration, and performance—because real change happens when you change the behaviors driving everything else.

You’ve found the speaker your teams need.

Liane Is The Real Deal

Liane is both an entertaining speaker that audiences love and a strategist with over 20 years experience in helping teams across a wide variety of industries (and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology to back it up). But, don’t let the Ph.D. scare you.

Liane won’t be caught dead in a tweed jacket or using a sleep-inducing PowerPoint deck. Instead, she delivers engaging stories, a-ha moments, and lots of laughs from start to finish.

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How Thoughtload is Undermining Performance and What Leaders Can Do About It

What’s breaking your team isn’t the workload; it’s the thoughtload—the constant mental tabs, emotional reactivity, and depleted energy that leave people unfocused, overwhelmed, and running on fumes. In this session, I reframe what’s really driving burnout and walk leaders through the three forces of modern thoughtload. They’ll learn how to help their teams regain focus, manage emotional triggers, and tap into renewable energy instead of draining what little they have left.

How to Build High Performance in a World of Perpetual Change

Change isn’t a wave anymore: it’s the water we’re all swimming in. No finish lines, no breathers, no “back to normal.” Even your strongest people are fraying under the constant swirl of shifting priorities and rising expectations. In this session, I show leaders how to create focus and calm in the chaos, process emotions before they turn into drama, and tap into energy sources that don’t burn them out.

The Keys to Unlocking Cross-Functional Collaboration

Your people do great work inside their own functions, but the moment they have to work across them, things fall apart. The problem isn’t the people; it’s the setup. In this keynote, I unpack why traditional fixes fail and what actually gets teams rowing in the same direction. Leaders learn how to align on goals, build trust through smart prioritization, dial up healthy tension, reduce toxic friction, and make collaboration work at scale.

How to Create a Culture of Productive Conflict

If your team is avoiding conflict, they’re avoiding the very conversations that move work forward. In today’s fast-changing environment, productive conflict is a competitive advantage. This keynote shows leaders how to treat tension as data, surface issues before they blow up, and use disagreement to drive sharper thinking and stronger relationships. It’s a practical path to replacing avoidance with accountability, clarity, and real progress.

Enhancing Accountability Without Eroding Empathy

Your managers are trying to protect their teams and deliver results, and many feel forced to choose one over the other. They don’t need to, though. In this session, I show leaders how accountability and empathy work together when you do them right. We cover how to set expectations that land, give feedback people can hear, and use consequences that support growth rather than trigger defensiveness. The goal: performance that rises, stress that doesn’t, and teams that trust the process.