Unlock your creative power. Build a more human future.
Keynotes, workshops, and bespoke experiences that help audiences reclaim their creative spark, imagination, and courage, and bring their most original ideas to life.
A SELECTION OF LIZ’S Past talks, workshops, and panels:
Meet YOUR SPEAKER
Reimagine the status quo. Create fearlessly in work, leadership, and life.
Liz Kimball is a creativity speaker, coach, and advisor helping visionary women and leaders bring their boldest ideas to life and build a culture of creative courage in an AI world.
Her talks are embodied and participatory, drawing on a twenty-year performance career and over a decade coaching hundreds of women across Hollywood, Broadway, music, and business. She brings the transformational depth of a creative thinker and the practical tools of an experienced teacher, and the room becomes a community by the time she leaves.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Shaped to your event, audience, and goals
All of Liz’s programs are fully customizable: available as a keynote, workshop, or retreat.
KEYNOTES (45–60 MINUTES)
Built around one of Liz's signature talks and shaped to your audience and theme. Audiences leave with a felt shift, a reframe they'll screenshot and repeat, and practices they can use the next morning. Ideal for conferences, summits, and large gatherings.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCES (90 MIN – HALF DAY – FULL OR MULTI-DAY)
Immersive, participatory experiences where your audience does real creative and transformational work alongside Liz — leaving with frameworks, practices, and breakthroughs they can use immediately. Facilitated with care and experience, fostering deep connection inside your team or group. Ideal for retreats, leadership offsites, and member-only programming.
THE CREATIVITY GAP
We want more creativity. But in an AI world, how do we actually catalyze it?
Now that AI can generate creative results, we have a chance to unleash our most creative selves. AI doesn’t have instincts, courage, or a singular point of view. It can't be curious. It can't share its voice. It can't take creative risks. These are our innate human capacities, and the moment is asking for them. But most of us were never taught how to use them.
Your audience is being told that creative thinking is the most valuable skill of the next era. A Harvard Business Review study found that ninety-six percent of leaders agree creative ideas are essential to long-term success. But only twenty-two percent say their organization is very successful at finding them.
Liz’s work closes the gap between creativity as an ambiguous directive and creativity as something every member of your team or community can use daily. Her method teaches audiences to reawaken nine core creative capacities we all have but were trained to forget, and gives organizations an actionable toolkit for unblocking flow and building a culture where people do their most alive and innovative work.
Signature Talks
Six talks, customised to your audience and theme.
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Return to Your Creative Self:
You were born with an original spark — a one-of-a-kind creative essence that is sacred, irreplaceable, and meant to be expressed. But the culture has been working to dim it your whole life, and most of us have been blaming ourselves for the dimming. This keynote reframes everything you've been told about creative blocks, perfectionism, and "finding your voice" — and offers a path back to the most creative version of yourself.
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How to Make Original Work in an AI World:
In a world flooded with AI-generated content, the most valuable thing you can develop is your fully expressed, original creative voice — the wild, messy, unrepeatable expression that no machine can replicate. This is no longer optional. It's a survival skill for the next era of work, leadership, and life. Liz offers a clear-eyed look at what AI changes, what it doesn't, and the specific practices that make human creativity more essential — not less.
Audiences leave with a framework for using AI as a tool while protecting the one thing only they can make. -
Reclaiming Curiosity, Imagination, and Enthusiasm in the Age of AI:
The most valuable leadership skills of the next era are not productivity or optimization. They're curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm — and none of them are taught at work. This talk offers a model for leading creatively rather than from control.
Audiences leave with: three reclamations they can practice immediately · a diagnostic for where creativity is dying in their organization · practices for building the conditions rather than demanding the results
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How to Greenlight Yourself:
There's a moment when waiting stops being preparation. The next era isn't going to be granted by anyone. This talk reframes creative courage as a daily practice rather than a quality possessed by the bold few.
Audiences leave with: a diagnostic for whether they're in their courage era or still waiting · the 5 Rules for Creating Anything · a first move they make before they leave the room
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When Wonder Is the Strategy:
We've optimized wonder out of our lives — and we are paying for it in burnout, creative depletion, and work that doesn't move us. In this keynote, Liz makes the case that wonder, awe, and aliveness are not luxuries or "nice to haves" — they are the most underrated creative strategy of our time. Drawing on her concept of "time courage" and the practice of making space for what cannot be controlled, she invites audiences to reclaim wonder as the engine of original creative work.
Audiences leave with practices for cultivating wonder daily, even in seasons of intensity. -
How to Build a Creative Practice That Sustains You for Life:
Most of us are working against our natural creative rhythm. The Creative Cycle — Liz's signature framework — reveals the cyclical nature of original creative work and shows you how to build a practice that grows you instead of grinding you. This keynote moves audiences from hustle creativity to regenerative creativity, with practices that work in seasons of rest, expansion, and emergence. Audiences leave with a diagnostic for identifying their own phase of the cycle, a new relationship with productivity, and a practice that can sustain them for the rest of their creative lives.
About Liz
Let’s build a culture of creative courage
Liz Kimball, MFA, CPC, is a creativity speaker, coach, and advisor who helps visionary women, leaders, and organizations bring their boldest ideas to life. Drawing on twenty years across dance, theater, academia, and transformational coaching, she works with clients in Hollywood, Broadway, media, and business to free their creative voice in work, leadership, and life.
She founded Original Source, a training program that helps people reclaim their creative power from digital distraction, the inner critic, and the pressure to conform—so they can build a singular body of work and a creative life they can't wait to wake up to.
Called “the Julia Cameron of her generation,” she has written for Oprah.com and spoken at TEDx, the Guggenheim, NYU, The Female Quotient, Dell Technologies, and universities and organizations across the country. She holds a dual degree from Northwestern, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and a certification in Transformational Coaching through Leadership that Works.
She is also a mother to two small humans and an enthusiastic dancer. She believes that when women create freely, the future becomes more human.
Book Liz
Tell us about your event.
Liz is currently booking keynotes, workshops, and combined engagements through 2026 and into 2027. Tell us about your event — the audience, theme, date, and format you're considering — and we'll be in touch within two business days to explore whether it's a fit.