Dr. Liz O’Riordan

Dr Liz O’Riordan is a consultant breast surgeon, best-selling author, and globally recognized speaker on leadership, resilience, and communication under pressure. Having faced cancer three times, she brings a rare dual perspective as both clinician and patient, offering grounded, practical strategies for staying calm, connected, and effective in high-stakes environments.

She has worked with global organizations including Apple, Google, YouTube, Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche, equipping teams with repeatable methods to improve decision-making, strengthen communication, and adapt to constant change without burnout.

Dr Liz O’Riordan is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Dr Liz O’Riordan’s fees.

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’Riordan is a consultant breast surgeon known for her expertise in leadership under pressure, communication that holds, and resilience through change. After facing cancer three times, she developed a powerful perspective on navigating uncertainty, maintaining composure, and supporting others through high-stakes challenges. Her work focuses on helping leaders and teams stay steady, communicate clearly, and adapt when conditions are constantly shifting.

She has delivered keynotes for global brands including Apple, Google, YouTube, Novartis, Pfizer, and Roche. Through her CPR toolkit, she provides practical, repeatable methods that strengthen decision-making, connection, and stability in demanding environments. Her sessions are direct and actionable, giving audiences clear behaviors they can apply immediately.

Communication, Advocacy, and Lasting Impact

Dr Liz O’Riordan speaks globally on improving the quality of patient care, drawing from her experience as both a cancer surgeon and patient, as well as insights from her community of over 200,000 people. She helps healthcare professionals better understand what patients need, particularly beyond the clinical setting.

In addition to her speaking work, she delivers interactive workshops focused on structured communication, adaptive leadership, and decision-making under pressure. These sessions emphasize sustained high performance and the ability to remain calm and connected during periods of disruption.

She is the best-selling author of four books, including The Cancer Roadmap, and hosts her own podcast. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2025 for her contribution to public education and received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from Future Dreams in 2024. A regular voice in international broadcast and print media, she is known for explaining complex ideas with clarity, warmth, and candor.

To hire Dr. Liz O’Riordan for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format and program goals. Dr. Liz O’Riordan is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Dr. Liz O’Riordan’s availability, discuss the event details and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Dr. Liz O’Riordan for your program.

The cost to book Dr. Liz O’Riordan depends on the event date, location, format, audience size and scope of the appearance. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Dr. Liz O’Riordan booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing and the best format for your event.

Liz speaks about resilience, reinvention, communication, and leadership through the lens of lived experience. Audiences can expect a candid, practical talk about what it takes to adapt when life changes suddenly, how trust is built through honest communication, and why perspective, humility, and empathy matter most under pressure.

Common keynote themes include: resilience, reinvention, leadership under pressure, communication, psychological safety, empathy, perspective, and navigating disruption.

Resilience and Reinvention

How do you move forward when the life you knew changes overnight?

This talk explores what it means to redefine success when circumstances force a new path. Liz shares a grounded perspective on protecting the non negotiables, staying steady through uncertainty, and using her CPR toolkit to respond when curveballs hit. The result is a practical conversation about resilience that goes beyond recovery and focuses on rebuilding with intention.

• Reinvention when your identity changes overnight
• Leading through personal and professional disruption
• What strength really looks like when you have no control

Ideal for audiences navigating change, uncertainty, or major transitions in work or life.

Communication and Psychological Safety

Strong teams depend on honest communication, especially when the stakes are high.

Drawing on the realities of the operating theatre and her experience as a patient, Liz shows how the cost of miscommunication can be serious and lasting. She connects those lessons to workplace culture, showing why people need to feel safe speaking up, why listening is a core leadership skill, and how teams can close the gap between intention and impact.

• How to create an environment where people speak up
• Listening as a leadership skill
• Closing the gap between intention and impact

Ideal for leaders, managers, and teams focused on trust, culture, and high quality communication.

Leadership and Perspective

Leadership changes when you understand both sides of the table.

In this talk, Liz examines what happens when the leader becomes the led. She explores how perspective, humility, and empathy reshape the way leaders support their people, especially in high pressure environments. Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of how authority and vulnerability can work together in strong leadership.

• Seeing your culture from both sides of the table
• How control and vulnerability coexist in great leadership
• The real meaning of empathy and authority under pressure

Ideal for executives, people managers, and organizations working to build stronger leadership cultures.

Closing Takeaway

At the core of Liz’s message is a simple idea: resilience is not about pretending nothing has changed. It is about responding with clarity, communicating with honesty, and leading with empathy when the pressure is real.