Lili Sussman
Dr. Lili Sussman holds a PhD from Harvard University (in decision-making), and has spent two decades scaling tech businesses, leading not for profits, consulting to some of the largest multinationals, and building new products and innovations across diverse international markets and sectors.
Coaching
I coach ambitious and humble organisations and CEOs who are evolving to become transformative leaders.
Specific Expertise
People: I specialise in building cohesive A-player teams - have built award winning cultures and high growth, high performance teams again and again. I use the science of the brain along with the discipline of Metronomics to transform a team into a high performance team.
Operational: I have led a range of functions - Strategy, Product, and Marketing, to name a few, across both big companies (corporates) and smaller (scaleups and NFPs), as well as having been a founder. I have deep empathy for the challenges of being in the trenches day to day. I get what it feels like to sit in different seats around the leadership table, and I know what it takes to build scalable functions and organisations.
Strategy and Product: I'm an expert strategist and product leader with years of BCG strategy projects and years of being Chief Strategy Officer in multiple organisations behind me, having launched new products in multiple industries. Often companies need greater clarity on their growth strategy (customer or product strategy as well as corporate portfolio strategy), and the team benefits from a structured co-creation process.
Education
- Harvard University, Department of Government: PhD and MA
- Yale University, East Asian Studies: MA
- University of Oxford, UK, PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics): BA
Industries
Expe)rienced across many industries (tech, financial services, healthcare, consumer/retail, professional services, energy, etc.
Career Highlights
- Scaled publicly listed fintech from $25m to $100m in revenue within 3 years
- Named Australia's Female Fintech Leader of the Year in 2023, for building award-winning culture (Best Place to Work, along with #1 in Diversity and Inclusion)
- ex-BCG
- Experienced c-suite executive across multiple markets and industries, including tech, financial services, as well as not-for-profit sectors
- Expert in strategy, product, and transformation, and the human brain
Dr. Lili Sussman holds a PhD from Harvard University (in decision-making), and has spent two decades scaling tech businesses, leading not for profits, consulting to some of the largest multinationals with BCG, and building new products and innovations across diverse international markets and sectors.
In 2023, she was named Australia's Female Fintech leader of the Year, having doubled revenue and customer growth year on year at one of the country's top 20 fastest growing tech companies, while building the #1 best place to work in Australia for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Her unique personal journey also includes recovering from a serious brain injury, when she lost her ability to read and walk on the street, which has led to a deep interest in the brain, and into the power of healing and rapid personal transformation.
She now advises and coaches growth organisations to achieve consistent high growth, coaching leadership teams to scale up together and enjoy the journey along the way with Metronomics.