Speaker Profile

Liz Moulton

Chief People Officer, Elevate | Chairman, Elevate Talent
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As Chief People Officer of Elevate, an award-winning sports, media and entertainment consulting firm, Liz is responsible for driving Elevate’s enterprise-wide people and talent agenda; leading global growth and performance; and steering Elevate’s distinctive corporate culture and employee development focus. Liz concurrently serves as the Chairman of Elevate Talent, the company’s global talent consultancy.

With a reputation for building organizations across the world’s leading professional sports, entertainment, and media organizations, Liz’s passion for diversifying leadership teams with women and underrepresented minorities earned her 2018 Sports Business Journal “Game Changer” honors. A WISE Women in Sports member, Liz plays a significant role driving Elevate’s Women’s Leadership Committee, championing opportunities and development for the company’s female leadership.

Prior to Elevate, Liz served as the Global Head of Activision Blizzard’s executive and critical talent functions, where she redesigned the organization’s approach to executive recruitment and retention with a lens to diversifying the organization and driving a high-performance culture for the Fortune 500 company. She oversaw all aspects of critical and executive talent, including succession planning, executive coaching, and leadership organizational design across its three global business units (Activision, Blizzard, and King), which together comprise over $8 Billion in revenues.

Liz also co-led Spencer Stuart’s global sports practice, driving growth threefold and leading talent consulting and executive recruitment for premier professional sports and entertainment clientele across the world, including the NFL, NHL, MLS, U.S. Soccer, the Big East Conference, Manchester United, City Football Group, and the Los Angeles Rams.

Liz earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and her master’s degree in leadership from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (HGSE) where she focused her coursework at HGSE and Harvard Business School. She was a member of Georgetown University’s varsity field hockey team and spent her early career teaching and coaching in a secondary school. Moulton holds a seat on the board of PeacePlayers International, a foundation that utilizes the power of sport to unite young people from divergent cultures. She resides in Salem, Massachusetts with her husband, Congressman Seth Moulton, and two daughters.

Liz Moulton

Speaker's Events

SSAC
2020 Conference
Built To Last: The Importance of Inclusion & Diversity in Sports Organizations Presented By Wasserman
Countless studies have shown that diverse teams outperform homogeneous counterparts. Yet in an environment where everyone is looking for a competitive edge, why is the sports industry so far behind?
SSAC
2019 Conference
Career Kickoff
The Career Panel provides a lively discussion on the skills vital in today’s sports industry and what analytical and business leaders are looking for in talent.
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