Laura Vanderkam
Productivity expert and author of 168 Hours, I Know How She Does It, and Tranquility by Tuesday
Liz Tran
Founder of the AQ Learning Lab, Executive Coach, and Author of The Karma of Success
“You’ve heard of IQ and EQ. But in today’s world, they’re no longer enough. We need the Agility Quotient (AQ). ”
Liz Tran Speaker
Liz Tran is an executive coach to CEOs and founders of the world’s fastest-growing companies. Before coaching, Tran spent a decade in tech, most recently as the only female executive at a top venture capital firm. In her book AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That's Always Changing, Tran introduces the Agility Quotient (AQ). Drawing on her work with over 200 successful founders, executives, and dozens of companies and organizations, AQ reveals a model for how high-performing teams and managers adapt to uncertainty. In engaging talks, Tran offers a practical framework for developing the “durable skills” needed to thrive in unpredictable environments.
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About Liz Tran
Liz Tran is the founder of the AQ Learning Lab and an executive coach to CEOs and founders of top startups and Fortune 500 companies. With over a decade of leadership experience in the venture capital and tech industries, Tran designs and leads transformative workshops for employees at all levels. Her clients include Facebook, Instagram, Outdoor Voices, and the Ford Foundation, and her work has been featured by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Today, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and more.
Tran is the author of The Karma of Success: Spiritual Strategies to Free Your Inner Genius and AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That’s Always Changing (2026). In AQ, Tran introduces the Agility Quotient, a new kind of intelligence essential for navigating constant change, uncertainty, and disruption. Drawing on her work with hundreds of founders, executives, and organizations, the book offers a wealth of tools and resources for developing the “durable skills” needed to thrive in unpredictable environments.
In her keynotes and workshops, Tran helps leaders and teams build agility, resilience, and self-awareness. Grounded in her Agility Quotient (AQ) framework, Tran equips audiences with practical tools to navigate uncertainty, adapt to rapid change, and perform at their best in volatile environments. Across talks such as AQ: The Agility Quotient, Inner Genius, Mission, Meaning, and Purpose at Work, and Pressing the Reset Button, she blends modern leadership strategy with proven coaching frameworks—including the 8 Motivators, Competence Quadrant, Strength Scale, and ABLE Toolkit—to help individuals reconnect with their strengths, rebuild confidence, avoid burnout, and unlock sustainable performance. Her sessions are interactive, actionable, and designed to help teams reset, refocus, and lead forward with clarity and purpose.
Tran is also the host of the popular podcast Reset with Liz Tran, which brings her insights to a broad audience, from CEOs to college students. Known for balancing deep introspection with actionable advice, Tran is a sought-after speaker on corporate stages and college campuses alike, where she shares her unconventional career path and empowers audiences to navigate change, overcome setbacks, and unlock their full potential.
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Speaking Topics
AQ: The Agility Quotient
Employees and companies are facing persistent change at a rate they never have before. With advances in technology and AI, market shifts, and geopolitical instability, exponential change is the new normal, and this means that leaders and teams alike must learn a new super skill for today's world: AQ, or Agility Quotient. In this keynote, Liz Tran defines this essential modern intelligence and shares three concepts and tools for improving one's AQ and mastering change, uncertainty, and the unknown, including The Ways of Change, The Four Levels of AQ, and The ABLE Toolkit.
Inner Genius: Turning up the Volume on our Talents and Ideas
Every person is born with an Inner Genius. It's the part of everyone that is responsible for breakthrough ideas, innovative problem-solving, and high-quality thinking. When the Inner Genius is activated, people not only produce their best work, they are energized by the process. In this keynote, Liz Tran walks through the history of the Inner Genius concept and provides inspiring coaching frameworks to help audiences connect with their own Inner Genius. These concepts are the "8 Motivators," "The Competence Quadrant," and the "Strength Scale." Together, they allow audiences to explore their own values, preferences, and assets at work and reconnect with their own Inner Genius.
Pressing the Reset Button: In-Person Workshop for Teams
This workshop is ideal for retreats, offsites, conferences, and other interstitial moments when employees are in need of a morale boost. Executive coach, Liz Tran, shares the frameworks and tools she uses with her clients, CEOs and founders of fast-growing companies, to help them recharge, reconnect to their motivation, and hit the reset button so they are ready and excited to jump into new goals and challenges. The concepts shared in the talk include the 8 Motivators, The Competence Quadrant, and the Strength Scale.
Mission, Meaning, and Purpose at Work
Layoffs, reorgs, burnout, or career fatigue—employees are often faced with big challenges at work. How can leaders help teams recalibrate? And how can teams work together to (re)define what it means to be happy at work? In this interactive and impactful talk, Liz Tran helps teams rebuild connection, community, and resilience in order to find purpose and motivation in their work. Using techniques such as the “Life Wheel”, Tran teaches teams how to build on areas that make them feel fulfilled and identify those areas leading to fatigue and burnout.
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Praise for Liz Tran
Thank you to Liz Tran for being such a gracious and exceptional speaker. The feedback from Liz’s sessions has been incredibly positive. The audience was deeply engaged and resonated with each stimulus. Liz brought a vibrant and energizing energy to the day and has amazing stage presence. The audience engagement was executed perfectly, bringing an interactive and dynamic feel to the day—really bringing the audience in.
— AccenturePraise for AQ: A New Kind of Intelligence for a World That’s Always Changing
As technology transforms the workplace, Liz Tran shows how every person can harness agility to thrive in times of change. Practical, inspiring, and impossible to ignore, AQ is the ultimate playbook for the future of work.
— Fiona Cook, international employee experience at Apple[AQ] is well written, with plenty of real-world examples of individuals who have successfully navigated significant changes in their lives.
— BooklistA practical guide to navigating uncertainty. . . . [Tran] astutely pinpoints how resistance to change holds people back. This will inspire readers to become more comfortable with discomfort.
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“We’re not distracted anymore—we’re disoriented. And right on time, Liz Tran gives us a gift: a framework for living with agility instead of rigidity. AQ does not ask us to do more, achieve more, or accumulate more: It invites us to strip away the illusion of stability and embrace the intelligence that matters most in times of change.”—Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism and Effortless
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