Lipscomb University's Elliott Lecture presents New York Times, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Liz Wiseman in FREE event on Thursday, Nov. 13

Lipscomb University's Elliott Lecture presents New York Times, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Liz Wiseman in FREE event on Thursday, Nov. 13

Kim Chaudoin | 10/27/2025

Lipscomb University's College of Leadership & Public Service presents Liz Wiseman, author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Rookie Smarts and Impact Players, as the keynote speaker for the 2025 Don R. Elliott Distinguished Presidential Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 13.

In addition to being a bestselling author, Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world, is the CEO of The Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Disney, Emirates, Google, Lilly, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla and X. Wiseman writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune and a variety of other business and leadership journals. She is a former executive at Oracle Corporation, where she worked as the vice president of Oracle University and as the Global Leader for Human Resource Development. Wiseman has received the top achievement award for leadership from Thinkers50 and has consistently been named one of the world's top 50 management thinkers.

A reception begins the evening at 5 p.m. and the lecture begins at 6 p.m. in Lipscomb University's George Shinn Center. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. Register here. The Don R. Elliott Distinguished Presidential Lecture is part of the 2025-26 Presidential Signature Series. A symposium and Q&A for Lipscomb University students featuring Wiseman will take place during the afternoon.

The Don R. Elliott Distinguished Presidential Lecture Series is named in memory of Don R. Elliott, a native of Kerr, Arkansas, who was a professor of economics and political science at Little Rock University, Randolph-Macon College and Vanderbilt University. He founded Don Elliott and Associates, a fundraising consulting firm that directed campaigns for Lipscomb University and a host of other universities, colleges and private schools. An endowment established at Lipscomb by the Don R. Elliott Foundation provides primary funding for the Elliott Distinguished Presidential Lecture.

The Elliott Lecture was presented for the first time in 2010, featuring Elaine Kamarck as its inaugural speaker. Kamarck is a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings Institute. A second lecture in 2012 was presented by Reagan White House veteran and Fox News commentator, James P. Pinkerton. Other featured Elliott Lecture speakers have included Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, Thomas Friedman, New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author; National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg; Captain Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot; Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former secretary general of NATO and prime minister of Denmark; David Gergen, advisor to four presidents; New York Times bestselling author and motivational speaker Daniel Pink, and bestselling author Dan Heath.

Register for this free lecture