Elizabeth Graham, MBA

Elizabeth Graham is a global strategist, founder, and executive advisor focused on building institutions designed not only for growth, but for endurance. Her work advances a higher standard of stewardship across enterprise, markets, and leadership. She helps senior leaders translate market intelligence into long-term strategy, cultivate high-impact partnerships, and design systems that ensure prosperity remains anchored to character, accountability, and institutional continuity. Elizabeth holds an MBA from SMU’s Cox School of Business and a BS in Psychology, with academic research in leadership development, global strategy, and cross-cultural organizational behavior. Her early research at the University of Michigan explored how language and cognition shape decision-making and influence — insights that continue to inform how she drives alignment, adoption, and strategic expansion across diverse stakeholders and regions. Over the past decade, she has worked with organizations including Gartner, Thomson Reuters, and Cengage, advising more than 1,000 senior leaders across industries such as finance, legal, education, manufacturing, and global nonprofits. She specializes in executive partnership development, data-informed growth strategy, and leadership initiatives that strengthen institutional capability at scale. Elizabeth believes the future belongs to organizations that pair innovation with responsibility — institutions built to outlast individuals and steward capital, opportunity, and trust with discipline and foresight.