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Lisa Sun

Founder & CEO, GRAVITAS, Former McKinsey Associate Principal, National Bestselling Author

Lisa Sun
  • Has led transformative change with clients like Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, and HSN by harnessing people’s strengths
  • Former McKinsey Associate Principal with 11 years of experience, bringing data-driven strategies and high-impact leadership insights to audiences worldwide
  • Uses research-backed methods, engaging anecdotes, and interactive sessions to help audiences uncover unique talents
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What would happen if you let go of fear, got off the sidelines, and jumped boldly into the game of life? Lisa Sun, founder and CEO of GRAVITAS, electrifies audiences as she unpacks this vital question in her moving, motivating, and empowering talks. Catalyzing confidence and inspiring innovation, Sun seamlessly blends stories from her personal journey with data and experience-driven insights from her 11 years at McKinsey & Company to offer talks that change the way you and your organization think about strengths, motivation and leadership.

Lisa Sun’s personal experiences in her career have defined her life as an entrepreneur and motivational speaker who inspires confidence. After being told she appeared “young and overly enthusiastic” and “lacked gravitas”, Sun channeled the resilience sparked by that critique to patent an innovative and inclusive approach to designing women’s clothing. Today, GRAVITAS has evolved from a fashion and lifestyle brand to a movement that inspires groups to jump boldly into achieving their personal and professional goals. Before GRAVITAS, Sun spent 11 years at McKinsey & Company, where she advised global brands on strategic and operational issues.

Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Sun draws on her entrepreneurial drive and business acumen honed from her time at McKinsey to underscore why it’s vital to push past your potential, how to transform an idea into a movement, and why you’ve got to bet on yourself every single day. She defines research-backed confidence languages, helps each audience member uncover their own unique “superpowers,” and unlocks the secrets to high-performing leadership. Praised for her passion and warmth, Sun has shared her sought-after insights and research-driven strategies with several of the world’s leading organizations, including Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, Mortgage Bankers Association, HSN, and more. In 2024, Sun was recognized as Toastmasters International’s Centennial Golden Gavel Recipient, awarded for excellence in communication and leadership.

With an unwavering dedication to helping others show up as the best version of themselves, Sun authored the national bestselling book Gravitas: The 8 Strengths That Redefine Confidence. In the book, she shares the ups and downs of her own journey, and gives the reader the tools to flex their strengths to shatter expectations and find success. Gravitas is a USA Today bestseller and reached number one on the Amazon bestseller list for its genre.

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Lisa Sun: Finding Your Superpower with GRAVITAS

MSNBC: Lisa Sun Discusses Her Book, Gravitas

Lisa Sun – NBC News: Gravitas Launches "25 Ideas in 2025" IWD Initiative

Lisa Sun: The 5 Muscles of High-Performing Leadership

NBC News: Lisa Sun discusses her book, GRAVITAS

NBC News: GRAVITAS Launches The Factory Collection

Lisa Sun: The 6 Steps To Innovation

Lisa Sun: Self Confidence Is A Choice

Gravitas Founder & CEO, Lisa Sun: The Dressing Room

Gravitas Founder & CEO, Lisa Sun: Own Your Moment

Lisa Sun – NBC News: Gravitas Launches "25 Ideas in 2025" IWD Initiative

Lisa Sun: Building Trust for Business Success

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Lisa Sun: Self Confidence Is A Choice

Gravitas Founder & CEO, Lisa Sun: The Dressing Room

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Lisa Sun: Building Trust for Business Success

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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.

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.

True courage emerges when we face challenges with the assurance that we are supported. In this impactful talk, Lisa Sun presents a framework for organizations to redefine and cultivate courage. She explores how limiting beliefs, past disappointments, and narrow definitions of success hold us back, keeping us in our comfort zones. By integrating “hard” and “soft” metrics, organizations can foster innovation, learn from outcomes, and build untapped strengths. Lisa draws from her own experiences and shares actionable strategies to implement feedback that inspires excellence and bold action.

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.

As a result of the session, attendees 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.

Leaders and organizations thrive by developing five essential muscles: Effective Execution, Emotional Support, Self-Recovery & Resilience, Persuasion, and Leveling Up/Innovation. Within each of these areas, there are inherent capabilities that underpin each. Based on proprietary quantitative and qualitative research, Lisa Sun helps attendees in an interactive session discover their underlying capabilities (online assessment tool included, compatible with MBTI, CliftonStrengths, DISC) and which of these muscles are primary and provides a roadmap on ones to be developed to drive desirable outcomes. This session is a deep-dive into the requirements for long-term, high-performing organizations and the underlying capabilities required to succeed.

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. 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. 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 drive innovation and chase market dominance.

Step into the Gravitas Confidence Closet, an immersive pop-up experience that goes beyond traditional styling. Designed to empower attendees through intentional dressing, this unique activation blends fashion, psychology, and personal branding to reveal how the right attire can elevate confidence and presence. Guided by Lisa Sun, CEO of Gravitas and expert in confidence-building, participants leave with personalized style insights and a newfound appreciation for the power of what they wear. Perfect for events seeking an unforgettable blend of fashion and personal growth, this experience fosters self-assurance that transcends the wardrobe.

Lisa was such a delight! Please thank her for bringing all of her humor and heart to our virtual session . She created quite an impact on our team—I heard Lisa Sun audibles in the halls all day. Our SVP of retail even asked if she should be on our team. I’m so grateful for her expertise and humility and vulnerability in all that she offer audiences and communities around her. She is such an energetic, engaging public speaker, and has such a way with words and storytelling. The team has requested a return! She really made a mark today.

Lululemon

Lisa Sun is inspiring and authentic. She is relatable, warm, funny and insightful. Lisa has an immediate connection with the audience as she shares her personal story of how she found her passion and purpose. Lisa Sun is the speaker your attendees will talk about for years to come.

Mortgage Bankers Association

She was AMAZING!!!!!! Knocked it out of the park—everyone loved her. She was the perfect open. Sorry I was so excited I forgot to email!

Barron’s Advisors

One of the older, very corporate-type gentlemen in the audience came up to ask about Lisa. He said her presentation style was incredible and very impactful and he could tell how she was able to really connect with everyone in the audience. He shared that a number of times during her presentation, he found himself welling up with emotion. I thought that was so cool!

Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka

Lisa’s session was nothing short of a masterclass! The depth of insight, inspiration, motivation, practical advice, and transformational wisdom she shared went beyond the conventional keynote. It was akin to a life-changing sermon that deeply resonated with me and, I believe, all who were present. Her candor in sharing her life’s journey, the encouragement to amplify our “superpowers” while quieting the voice of our inner critic, and the poignant reminder that our life stories are, in fact, our leadership stories, were truly impactful. She reminded us that our inner strength is the foundation of confidence and gravitas.

Two Sigma

Lisa, thank you so very much for your kind words and tremendous engagement. Our folks were hanging on your every word… we loved both your content and delivery. If your ears were burning, it was because of all the comments flying behind the scenes… “She amazing!” “This is awesome.” “She’s a rockstar!” “WOW.” All that to say… we simply can’t thank you enough. We know how busy you are and truly appreciate you making the time to genuinely lean in be present with our people. It showed.

Cox Automotive, Inc.

In a time where our team members’ wellbeing is at the forefront of our success, Lisa’s Gravitas workshop was the perfect program to lift our team and help them focus on the things that will make them most productive both personally and professionally. Lisa delivers a program that is reflective, uplifting, and impactful in an authentic way that allowed for humor and a comfort level that is necessary as her content becomes customized and personal to all.  It was a home run!

ALHI

Lisa was FREAKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The attendees absolutely LOVED her….everyone kept stopping me throughout the day mentioning the impact she had on them. And our college and high school girls were so moved by her.

LAI, Thank you so much for all of your assistance throughout the process. I am thrilled that we were able to have her at the conference.

Women’s Conference of Florida

Lisa was a hit! She really set the tone for the day and people were still talking about her session at the cocktail hour. What a dynamic person! We enjoyed her so much and people kept asking me how we found her.

Structured Finance Association

I, myself, find Lisa to be a very inspired leader. I would highly recommend her to speak to any group of people—employees or organizational leaders—looking to find inspiration in their daily work. More than others, she is a speaker who offers substantive lessons, real guidance, on how to put lofty ideas into real action.

Team One

Lisa Sun exudes warmth and insight. At our Global Success Summit, not only did she inspire our audience with her unique story, she connected with each and every attendee on a personal level. Her take on vulnerability and her interactive exercises to embrace our superpowers engaged us to take action and make a difference.

Dress for Success

Lisa Sun is an incredible guest speaker–her delivery is as authentic and funny as her story is inspiring. I would recommend her highly to any group reflecting on their own purpose, passion, and gravitas.

McKinsey & Company

“Lisa made an incredible impact on our company. The people who have been to these events before said it was one of the best keynotes in our 18 years; Those who haven’t attended before said Lisa set the bar to the max for our future speakers. I have heard multiple conversations since Lisa’s keynote about people sharing superpowers, sending the Gravitas website to friends and family members, and just general glowing reviews.”

PEP Promotions

“Lisa was SUCH A HIT! Literally, made our night great and employees were raving about her!”

California Credit Union

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