Liz Bohannon

Liz Bohannon started Sseko Designs in 2008 with three women working under a mango tree, and built it into an international fashion brand that creates educational and economic opportunities for women in East Africa. She is also the bestselling author of Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose and Impact Now.

A Beginner’s Mindset for Big Impact

Liz’s keynotes are built on the ideas in her book: Dream Small, Own Your Average, and Stop Trying to Find Your Passion, Create It. She shows audiences how to become a problem finder, move from dreaming to doing, and reconnect their work with purpose. Her talks also cover collaboration over competition, drawn from Sseko’s merger with Noonday Collection, and the real personal costs of leading at the top.

Purpose in Real Business Terms

Liz speaks about social enterprise from the inside, including the hard moments such as a record sales low in March 2020. Sseko Designs has been featured in outlets including Vogue, Inc., and Fortune, and it has created fair-wage jobs for artisans and helped women reach university. Entrepreneurs, sales teams, women’s leadership groups, and corporate audiences looking for a keynote on purpose, collaboration, and building something that matters will find Liz warm and practical.

What does Liz Bohannon speak about?

Liz speaks on purpose-driven success, social enterprise, and the power of a beginner’s mindset. Her talks draw on her book Beginner’s Pluck and ideas like Dream Small, Own Your Average, and Stop Trying to Find Your Passion, Create It, along with collaboration over competition and the realities of leading at the top.

How did Liz Bohannon build Sseko Designs?

Liz founded Sseko Designs in 2008 to create educational and economic opportunities for women in East Africa, starting with three women working under a mango tree. The brand grew into an international fashion company and later merged with Noonday Collection, a story she uses to teach collaboration over competition.

Who books Liz Bohannon to speak?

Meeting planners book Liz for entrepreneurship and leadership conferences, sales meetings, women’s leadership events, and corporate culture programs. She fits audiences that want a practical, hopeful message about purpose, creativity, and building a business that does good.

Beginner’s Pluck: Crushing Goals with a Beginner’s Mindset

Teaches audiences to become problem finders, dream small to achieve big results, and reconnect with purpose.

Beginner’s Pluck: Collaboration Beats Competition Every Time

Shows how collaborating with others, even competitors, creates better outcomes, using the stakeholder buy-in behind Sseko’s merger with Noonday Collection.

It’s Lonely at the Top (But It’s Really About the Company We Keep)

Covers building a leadership support system, the difference between community and culture, and managing the personal costs of success.