Dream Big & Win with Liz Elting

The Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women is thrilled to welcome one of the world’s leading entrepreneurs, philanthropists and best-selling authors, LIZ ELTING, as our special guest for our May 2024 Women’s Leadership Luncheon.

One of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women, she co-founded and grew TransPerfect, the billion-dollar translation and solutions company that began as a dream in an NYU dorm room.

In her bestselling book,

DREAM BIG AND WIN: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion Dollar Business (Wiley; September 26, 2023).

She reveals a counterintuitive approach to success and divulges practical and inspiring tips you can implement immediately to not only dream big, but also win.

She is Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, an entrepreneur, business leader, bestselling author, linguaphile, philanthropist, feminist, and mother.

After living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe, Liz founded TransPerfect out of a NYU dorm room in 1992 and served as Co-CEO until 2018. TransPerfect is the world’s largest language solutions company, with over $1.2 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide.

Liz received the 2019 Charles Waldo Haskins Award for business and public service from NYU’s Stern School of Business, the American Heart Association’s 2020 Health Equity Leadership Award, the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs’ 2021 Vertex Award for changing the face and direction of women’s high-growth entrepreneurship, the American Heart Association’s 2022 Woman Changing the World Award, Trinity College’s 2022 Kathleen O’Connor Boelhouwer ’85 Alumni Initiative Award, the Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation’s 2023 Angel of Hope Award, and the 2023 Entreprenista 100 Award. Liz has been recognized as a NOW Woman of Power & Influence, American Express; and Entrepreneur Magazine’s Woman of the Year, and one of Forbes’ Richest Self-Made Women every year since the list’s inception.

We are delighted that she is ready to share her strategies so that you, too, can learn to DREAM BIG AND WIN.

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