Lisa Sun

Topics

• Choosing Self-Confidence & Finding Your Superpower

  In this engaging session, Lisa Sun delves into the lifelong struggle between self-consciousness and self-confidence, sharing effective techniques to understand the forces that hold us back and use our unique gifts as the foundation for self-belief and success. Through her personal journey and quantitative research, Sun guides attendees in identifying their superpowers and embracing them, with humor and honesty. This talk explores different confidence personalities, offering real takeaways for personal and professional growth. Attendees will uncover their own confidence language, understand its impact, and learn how to use it to navigate challenges and amplify success.

• The Trust Blueprint: The Foundation for Stronger Teams, Better Collaboration, and Lasting Success

  When trust is broken, whether at work or in life, it can feel impossible to rebuild. In this high-energy session, Lisa Sun will show you exactly how to diagnose what’s broken in your relationships and give you the blueprint to rebuild even the toughest ones. In corporate settings and personal situations alike, Lisa Sun explains how trust serves as the foundation for commitment, accountability, and results. She introduces the four essential components of building trust—reliability, congruence, acceptance, and openness—to help attendees diagnose why some relationships thrive while others struggle. Lisa leads a highly engaging and interactive exercise where participants score their best and most challenging relationships on the four components, uncovering hidden gaps that impact their connections. She then provides game-changing, real-world strategies to build trust and repair communication, like reframing conflict, asking open and direct questions, and improving feedback processes. Walk away with a plan to supercharge your relationships, elevate your leadership, and create a culture of trust that fuels high-performing teams.

• GRAVITAS: The Mindset Transformation Workshop

  Lisa Sun is about to break everything you know about confidence.

  In an interactive and intimate session, she takes the powerful lessons on cultivating courage, channeling resilience, and choosing confidence that she shares in her keynotes and leads a more in-depth exploration into how each individual in your group can apply them to every aspect of their lives. The GRAVITAS Mindset Transformation Workshop is meant to get everyone reflecting internally and out loud, communicating with one another, sharing what makes them unique, and creating an action plan for how to harness their superpowers and show up as their most courageous and confident selves each day.

  Group members will have the opportunity to learn more about Sun’s journey, as well as each other’s. Life stories will become leadership stories, and eyes will be opened to how our past experiences have equipped us with the qualities to be the leaders we know we can be.

  As a result of the session, they will be armed with the following tips, tools, and tactics for the next time they come face-to-face with self-doubt:

  • How to recognize and overcome the six forces that inhibit self-confidence
  • Their unique confidence languages (results based on a pre-workshop assessment)
  • Self-reflective exercises for drawing out the confidence that lies within
  • Strategies for overpowering their inner-critic
  • Understanding of what skills and mindsets they want to develop going forward

  As Sun shares, self-love requires a lot of work and there’s no silver bullet to this. People can’t change their behaviors until they change their mindset, and this workshop is designed to set the wheels in motion for this process to begin. Confidence is a choice — one that everyone in your group will be ready to make by the end of this workshop.

• Braving Innovation from Our Strengths

  As Lisa Sun explains, we can’t be confident until we fully understand what makes us uniquely strong—our “superpower.” But, once you know your superpower, what’s next? With this talk, Lisa blends research from her time at McKinsey & Company with her own personal story to impart a powerful message about drawing on specific gifts to make the world a better place. Whether it be launching a revolutionary company, bringing that new idea to management, or pushing past failure to chase a big goal, Lisa inspires audiences to draw on their strengths in pursuit of innovation and success.

• From an Idea to a Movement: Choosing Self-Confidence + Finding Our Strengths

  As Lisa Sun, founder and CEO of the lifestyle and fashion company GRAVITAS, explains, people can’t be confident until they fully understand what makes them uniquely strong. Open, honest, and funny, Lisa shares the techniques she and her many clients have used to let go of haunting insecurities, making our unconscious gifts conscious, and learning to share them with those around us. Blending research from her time at McKinsey & Company and her personal story, Lisa will impart a powerful message about drawing on specific gifts to make the world a better place. You will feel inspired to draw upon your unique strength and superpower to push past your potential and transform an idea into a movement.

• Moral Courage, “Reluctant Activism,” and Allyship (Presentation with Jane Park)

  A generational shift is happening amongst the AAPI community. In this talk, entrepreneurs Lisa Sun & Jane Park address the challenges facing the AAPI community from systemic bias and the model minority myth to rising anti-AAPI sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic. Together, they blend their experiences in corporate America and as startup founders to celebrate what it means to be AAPI today and what that means for the future.

  Through Lisa Sun’s personal story, she explores what it means to be second-generation Taiwanese American, wedged between her immigrant parents’ quest for high-achieving assimilation and her younger brother’s millennial protests for change, ultimately embracing what she calls “reluctant activism” as a call to action for the AAPI community. Jane Park, the first Korean American woman to take a company public on the NYSE, provides unique insights into how individuals and organizations can embrace concrete allyship actions that move beyond the performative and turn supporters into true champions for change.

• Diversity: Representation & Access

  It’s widely acknowledged that the most-diverse enterprises are the most innovative and highest-performing. As an Asian-American woman, Lisa Sun shares her personal journey climbing the corporate ladder and launching her own venture, GRAVITAS. Through her story, she shares how minorities can be seen and celebrated for their differences and ideas; and how everyone can create cultures where connection, equal access to senior jobs, and equal pay are the norm. Her unique insights provide concrete tactics to unlock the secret of making diversity work.

• Make Your Mark: Growth and Market Dominance

  Here, Sun draws on her McKinsey background to explore the shifts we’re seeing all around us in terms of changing consumer behavior, emerging markets, and technology. Sharing her inspiring story of creating a novel, successful brand and a rabid fanbase in a busy sector facing tremendous disruption, Sun showcases how to grow your business by paying attention to the right indicators, understanding your niche consumer, differentiating your brand, and doubling down on a positive vision. A great talk for incumbents and growing businesses alike, Lisa Sun helps audiences understand the changes that are remaking the business world around them while motivating them to remain resilient and use that knowledge to chase market dominance.

• Managing Through Adversity with Gravitas

  After a professional review left Lisa devastated, she threw herself into reversing the comment from a superior of “lacking gravitas.” Decades later, Lisa has come to understand that discovering her gravitas pushed her to survive and thrive. In this webinar, Lisa gives a gravitas guidebook to persevere through tough times and come out the other side stronger – to not only survive, but thrive in adversity.

• Cultivating Courage: Reframe Results to Compel Action

  True courage is displayed when we are able to gather the mental and moral strength to face challenging endeavors head-on with the knowledge that we are supported in our actions. It begins with us truly understanding our strengths and organizational culture, while letting the experience and results from our actions — whether positive or negative — guide our continued pursuits. What steps can we take to transform courage from a fleeting moment or an event to a regular practice?

  In this eye-opening conversation, Lisa Sun introduces a framework for organizations to redefine what it means to cultivate courage. She begins by illustrating the things that hold us back from being bold. This includes disappointing experiences and how organizations define and evaluate success, which can lead to and reinforce limiting beliefs, forcing most of us to default to what worked before — our comfort zones. Instead of thinking differently and embracing opportunities, we focus on our flaws and silence our potential to step out and create something truly remarkable. We may be focused on “hard” metrics as the primary indicators of success, but the organizations that are best positioned for successful innovation are the ones that integrate hard metrics with “soft” metrics to explore a more holistic view of what they have achieved. Soft metrics empower us to understand what went well, find opportunities to discover new approaches, and come away with lessons learned for the future, building strengths and capabilities we may not have even known we had.

  Using examples from her own real-life experiences, Lisa provides practical tips on how organizations can implement soft and hard feedback loops as they look to operate with excellence and cultivate courage.