Let’s Work Better Together

Liya works with organizations to deliver interactive presentations and educational experiences that help individuals and teams grow. Collaborating with leaders who have a holistic mindset, she creates programs that support teams to work better together.

Liya has over two decades of experience delivering impactful presentations, training programs, and engaging workshops to some of the world’s biggest organizations.

“This session made the whole conference ticket worth it. It was not what I had expected, but what she said made so much sense! She's so real and authentic. I'm so inspired.”

Past Clients & Appearances

Corporate Engagements

  • AT&T Foundry Innovation Centers

  • Capgemini

  • Celanese

  • Hyundai Innovation Center

  • IBM

  • Idean (now Frog Design)

  • Genesys

  • General Assembly

  • Grads of Life

  • Mercedes-Benz R&D

  • Pearson Clinical

  • Silicone Valley Bank

  • Syniverse

Events & Conferences

  • Leadership by Design Conference

  • Future Frontiers Conference

  • Interaction Design Conference

  • IA Summit

  • Multicultural Women’s National Conference

  • Service Design Conference

  • SXSW

  • User Friendly International Conference

  • University of Texas

  • Austin Product League

Happy Clients

“Thank you for your talk. It resonated extremely well with the team. Your format, storytelling, and authenticity really hit home with us. A lot of what you talked about we deal with on a daily basis and I think it inspired others to keep carrying the torch of change.”
— Matthew Cunningham, VP, User Experience & Design at Genesys
“I can’t believe what we achieved in such a short time. Our executives were very impressed with Liya’s workshop and facilitation skills.”
— Margarete Wies, Former VP of UX Design, Mercedes-Benz
“Liya was so good. I couldn’t expect more from a trainer. She was amazing.”
— Harri Saloma, Former Head of Software, HP
“Liya single-handedly delivered a highly inspirational workshop teaching us tools with plenty of hands-on exercises that enabled us to not only understand the “What” (we are doing), the “How” (we are doing it), but most importantly, the “Why”, the purpose… Liya has an awesome personality, is naturally assertive without losing her trademark joie de vivre… In short: Liya is a rockstar!”
— Uwe Zimmermann, Experience Design Director, Best Buy Health

Speaking/Workshop Topics

Creative Courage

Encourage your team to unleash their creativity and improve problem-solving and innovation outcomes. While we all have the ability to envision solutions to even the most challenging problems, working collaboratively with others to bring those ideas to fruition can prove to be difficult for many teams.

In this interactive presentation, Liya guides the audience through the science of creative courage and its potential. People walk away with a simple framework they can use to break through their internal blocks and activate creative courage within themselves and their teams.

Relational Attunement

Study after study points to the same issues that get in the way of great collaborative outcomes: conflict, miscommunication, unclear expectations, misalignment, and misunderstandings. The latest neuroscience tells us that our human survival physiology has not evolved quickly enough to help us thrive in emotionally and relationally complex work environments in the modern world.

Give your team the education and training they need to create psychologically and emotionally safe spaces for optimal collaboration. And empower them with the skills to repair breakdowns when they do inevitably happen.

Authentic Communication

Compassionate leaders understand that when emotional responses are triggered in the workplace, each person responds according to a set of unique trauma-response patterns.

Some of these patterns can show up as defensive mechanisms that don’t serve ourselves, others, and our teams. When triggered, limiting response patterns cause individuals to have difficulty thinking clearly or showing up optimally in challenging relational dynamics.

In this training, we equip leaders with the ability to understand these patterns and how they show up in team dynamics. And they hone skills to create compassionate, psychologically safe, and emotionally resilient workplaces.

Let’s design an experience that gives you team tools and inspiration to grow and perform at their highest potential.