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Liz Ige
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Transformation consultant · Governance and compliance leader

Speaking with courage, clarity and conviction.

Leadership, governance and transformation, drawn from sixteen years in financial services and five in elected public office.

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Elizabeth Ige, photographed outdoors

Spoken at

Cambridge Judge Business School

Homerton College, Cambridge

Local Government Association

Credibility earned in regulated rooms. Conviction tested in public ones.

Elizabeth Ige, known as Liz, has worked since 2010 in financial services, where regulatory expectation meets commercial reality, and has spent five years in elected public office, where decisions are made in front of the people they affect. She sits on boards, has chaired scrutiny, and has built the governance frameworks that hold once the consultants have gone.

She speaks about what that has actually taught her: that governance fails quietly long before it fails publicly, that compliance and culture are not the same thing, and that conviction only counts when it costs something.

Since 2010
In financial services, regulation and compliance
5 years
In elected public office, including chairing scrutiny
4
Signature talks, each tailored to your audience

Signature talks

Four talks, each shaped around the room they are given in.

Most requested

Leaders who go quiet when the room turns against them

Courageous and Authentic Leadership

Most leaders know the right thing to do. Far fewer do it when there is a cost attached.

Who it is for. Senior leadership teams, emerging leaders and leadership development programmes in organisations where speaking plainly has become difficult.

What it covers

  • What conviction actually costs, and why that cost is the point
  • Navigating resistance without becoming combative or compliant
  • Holding a position when the room, the hierarchy or the politics are against you
  • Staying recognisably yourself as seniority increases

What the audience leaves with

  • A working definition of courage that survives contact with a real organisation
  • Language for dissenting well, without damaging relationships
  • A clear read on where each leader is currently trading conviction for comfort

Keynote, extended session or leadership away-day workshop.

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For boards

Boards with immaculate papers and no real challenge

Governance That Works

Governance fails quietly, long before it fails publicly. Usually in a meeting where nobody asked the obvious question.

Who it is for. Boards, trustees, audit and risk committees, and executive teams preparing for greater scrutiny.

What it covers

  • Why sound structures still produce poor decisions
  • Building genuine challenge into a board that likes each other
  • Accountability that clarifies rather than punishes
  • What regulators, members and the public now expect of decision-makers

What the audience leaves with

  • A practical test for whether challenge in your board room is real or performed
  • Three habits that improve decision quality inside one meeting cycle
  • A shared vocabulary for accountability that a board will actually use

Board briefing, conference keynote or trustee development session.

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For regulated firms

A policy library nobody reads and behaviour it never changed

From Compliance to Culture

You cannot write a procedure for integrity. You can only build an organisation where the shortcut feels wrong.

Who it is for. Financial services, regulated industries, risk and compliance functions, and any organisation whose controls look better on paper than in practice.

What it covers

  • Why compliance programmes stall at the point of behaviour
  • The gap between what is written down and what is rewarded
  • Embedding integrity into ordinary decisions, not annual training
  • What has genuinely moved culture inside regulated firms, and what only looked like it did

What the audience leaves with

  • A diagnosis of where your controls and your culture have quietly diverged
  • Practical levers that shift behaviour without adding process
  • A way to talk about integrity that does not sound like a poster

Conference keynote, in-house session or programme opener.

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Available for IWD

Talented women who are present in the room but not heard in it

Women, Power and Owning Your Voice

Being given a seat at the table is not the same as being able to use it.

Who it is for. Women's networks, International Women's Day events, leadership programmes and organisations serious about who holds influence.

What it covers

  • The narratives that quietly limit ambition, and where they come from
  • Occupying space in rooms not designed with you in mind
  • Building authority without performing somebody else's version of it
  • Sponsorship, visibility and the difference between the two

What the audience leaves with

  • A clear-eyed account of the barriers, without either denial or despair
  • Practical moves for being heard in rooms where you are outnumbered
  • Permission, and a method, for leading as yourself

Keynote, fireside conversation or panel chair.

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Liz Ige speaking at Shift Happens UK, Cambridge Judge Business School
Shift Happens UK · The Reboot, Cambridge Judge Business School, April 2026. Film courtesy of the organisers.

Selected engagements

Where Liz has spoken

The background behind the talks

Financial services, regulation and compliance
Inside regulated firms since 2010, working where regulatory expectation meets commercial reality.
Governance and organisational transformation
Leading change programmes and building the decision-making structures that hold once the programme ends.
Board and trustee responsibility
Board-level experience of scrutiny, challenge and the duties that come with a seat at the table.
Public and elected leadership
Five years in elected public office, including scrutiny chair, chief whip and other senior group leadership roles.
Women's leadership and representation
Advocacy and practical work on who holds influence, and what it takes to change that.
Community advocacy and storytelling
Lived experience translated into something an audience can act on rather than simply admire.

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Looking for a speaker who has actually held the responsibility?

Conferences, panels, board briefings, leadership programmes and organisational away-days. Tell Liz about your event and you will have a considered reply within two working days.

  • Dates can be pencilled and held whilst you decide
  • Every talk is tailored to your audience before delivery
  • In person across the UK, internationally, or virtually

No obligation, and no salesperson will call.