Speaker Profile

Elizabeth Kassab transforms impossible odds into extraordinary outcomes. As QUT's ARC IoT for Water Hub Research Manager, she brings hard-won wisdom from evacuating war-torn Beirut with two children to pioneering $40+ million educational operations across three countries.

Dismissed as "too emotional" for business, she weaponized that perceived weakness - securing multi-million-dollar contracts and boosting Indigenous enrollment by 70%. Her revelation? Every bomb that fell, every door that slammed shut, every battle she fought wasn't breaking her - it was building her. She's here to shatter the myth that trauma weakens us.