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Past Speaking Engagements

Larisa Miller has spoken on stages across more than thirty countries on six pillars of work: business strategy and disruption, global business and soft diplomacy, emerging markets and sustainable development, leadership, entrepreneurship and the architecture of building, family offices and next-generation capital, and technology, infrastructure, and digital transformation. Every keynote is built around operational reality, not theory.

Every topic listed below can be delivered as a keynote, a half-day or full-day masterclass, a university or accelerator workshop, or a multi-session executive intensive. Standard formats include 45–60 minute keynotes, moderated fireside conversations, on-campus workshops, and one- or two-day masterclasses for executive teams and leadership cohorts.

Standard formats include 45–60 minute keynotes, moderated fireside conversations, and one- or two-day masterclasses for executive teams and leadership cohorts. Hybrid programs that combine topics across pillars are available for multi-session engagements.

BPW Galway May 2026
12 Larisa Miller Middlesex University Dubai Unted Arab Emirates
11 Larisa Miller Next Gen
10 Larisa Miller Bosphorus Summit
Subject Matter Expertise

Larisa Is an Expert Speaker On

Larisa has spoken on stages across more than thirty countries, including the Bosphorus Summit (Istanbul), the International Economic Forum of the Americas, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, Middlesex University Dubai, and the NextGen Leader Group.

Business Strategy & Disruption

Disruption Is a Discipline: How to Build Strategy When the Rules Keep Changing

Every organization claims to embrace disruption. Very few have built a systematic approach to it. Larisa Miller has operated across 30+ countries, in markets ranging from the United Arab Emirates and the broader Gulf to Sub-Saharan Africa to the American agricultural sector, and the pattern is consistent: the organizations that thrive through disruption treat it as a practiced discipline, not a reaction. This keynote delivers a working framework for strategic disruption: how to read the signals before they become crises, how to build for the world that is coming rather than the one that was, and how to lead when the ground is shifting under your feet. It also addresses one of the lessons most executives have been slow to internalize: the organizations that adapt fastest are the ones willing to collaborate across competitive lines and expand their networks, recognizing that intelligent collaboration enhances intellectual property rather than threatens it. Grounded in two decades of operational reality across global markets.

Own the Landscape: How C-Suite Leaders Disrupt, Outmaneuver Competitors, and Redefine Their Markets

Most executives talk about disruption as something that happens to their industry. The leaders who consistently win treat it as something they engineer. This keynote is built for C-suite and senior executives who want to move beyond competitive response and into competitive control. Larisa Miller draws from two decades of operating across global markets to deliver a framework for identifying where an industry is structurally vulnerable, how to exploit those vulnerabilities before a competitor does, and how to build market position so dominant that replication becomes prohibitively expensive. The goal is not to outrun competitors. It is to make the race irrelevant. Audiences leave with specific tools for auditing their competitive landscape, identifying the moves that consolidate market share, and executing the kind of strategic transformation that does not just respond to disruption but manufactures it.

20-Year Strategy & Investment: How a Long Horizon Changes Every Decision You Make Today

Most business strategy is built on a 12-month horizon, occasionally stretching to three years. The companies and leaders that consistently outperform are operating on a fundamentally different time frame, and that shift in horizon changes not just strategy, but hiring, capital allocation, partnership selection, and how you read market signals. Drawing from her work in family office governance, emerging market infrastructure, agricultural supply chains, and global consulting, Larisa Miller delivers a practical framework for extending your strategic lens, and the concrete decisions that look different once you do.

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"The work I do is not strategy. It is reverse engineering. I take the business model that is failing and rebuild it for the decade that is coming."

Larisa Miller

Larisa Miller

Founder & CEO, Phoenix Global Group Holdings

Global Business & Soft Diplomacy

The Business of Instability: What the Gulf Crisis Means for Global Capital, Infrastructure, and Investment

The instability reshaping the United Arab Emirates and the broader Gulf is not a regional story. It is a stress test for every company with capital deployed, supply chains routed, or infrastructure contracts negotiated in the region. The principles and methodology that hold under pressure in the Gulf apply directly to businesses operating across every emerging market on the planet. Most speakers explain the geopolitics from the outside. Larisa Miller spent more than a decade based in Abu Dhabi, operating inside the UAE, building at the intersection of government, sovereign capital, and global infrastructure, working with royal family offices and cabinet-level relationships, and running development projects across the Emirates and into Africa. In this keynote, she translates what is happening now into direct strategic implications for global investment portfolios, infrastructure timelines, and cross-border business decisions. Audiences leave with a framework for navigating uncertainty in the world’s most consequential emerging market corridor, not from a policy briefing, but from someone who has been in the rooms.

Global Business in a Fragmented World: Operating Across Borders When the Rules Are Rewritten

The era of predictable globalization is over. What replaces it is not isolation. It is a more complex, more demanding form of global engagement that rewards operators with genuine cross-border fluency and punishes those working from assumptions that no longer hold. With two decades of active operations across the United States, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, Larisa Miller delivers a ground-level strategic briefing on what global business actually looks like today: the capital flows, the regulatory pivots, the cultural intelligence required, and the frameworks that separate organizations that scale across borders from those that struggle. This is not a policy overview. It is an operator’s guide.

Unexpected Collaboration: Cross-Sector and Cross-Ministerial Strategies for Unlocking Value

The most consequential value creation of the next decade will not come from organizations operating inside their traditional lanes. It will come from those willing to connect dots that were not supposed to connect. In the public sector, this means cross-ministerial collaboration, the transportation ministry generating revenue off an agriculture project, the digital services agency unlocking value from an infrastructure program, the health ministry building capability through an education initiative. In the private sector, it means finding commercial opportunity in industries and partnerships most CEOs would dismiss as irrelevant to their business model. Drawing from active work with governments across the United States, Europe, the Gulf, and Africa, and from Phoenix Global’s practice of building ventures at the seams between industries, Larisa Miller delivers a working framework for what she calls the architecture of unexpected collaboration: how to identify the cross-sector partnerships that create durable value, how to structure them so every participant benefits, and why the organizations and ministries that master this practice consistently outperform those that stay in their lanes.

The Rules of the Room: Global Business Etiquette for the C-Suite

The American executive who walks into a meeting in Riyadh, Lagos, Singapore, or São Paulo and operates the way they would in New York or London is not just being culturally tone-deaf. They are losing the deal in real time and they do not yet know it. Larisa Miller has spent two decades operating across more than thirty countries, sitting in rooms governed by completely different rules than the ones most American and European executives were trained for. The mistakes are predictable, the costs are enormous, and almost no executive education program teaches the corrections. This keynote delivers a working guide to the unwritten rules of senior-level global business: how to read a room you have never been in, how to navigate hospitality protocols that determine whether you are taken seriously, how to handle the conversations that are not about the deal but determine whether the deal happens, and how to recognize the cultural signals that tell you whether you are about to win or lose. Built for C-suite executives, founders expanding internationally, family office principals, and the advisors who serve them. Practical. Specific. Drawn from rooms most attendees will never enter on their own.

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Africa, Emerging Markets & Sustainable Development

Africa Is the Answer: Food Security, Infrastructure, and the Investment Case for the World's Next Economy

The conventional framing of Africa as a development challenge is three decades out of date. The reality on the ground is a continent with the arable land, the workforce, and the market dynamics to become the food basket and innovation hub of the global economy, provided the right capital and infrastructure partnerships show up with the right framework. Larisa Miller has built actively across multiple African markets through Phoenix Global, working on agriculture and agritech, transportation and trade corridors, digital government, and sustainable investment. In this keynote, she cuts through the aid-era narrative and delivers a practitioner’s case for Africa as the most consequential growth market of the next two decades, and the specific frameworks that separate responsible, durable investment from the extractive patterns that have failed before.

Responsible Acceleration: How Emerging Economies Can Leapfrog Without the Debt Trap

The path most emerging economies have been offered is a familiar trade: rapid development financed by debt terms that mortgage the next generation. There is another path, and the countries that have taken it, from the United Arab Emirates in its early decades to specific sectors in Southeast Asia and Latin America, have a pattern worth studying. Drawing from more than a decade operating inside the UAE’s transformation story, active work across African governments, and cross-border investment structuring, Larisa Miller delivers a strategic framework for what responsible acceleration actually looks like: sovereign governance that holds the line, diversified capital sources, strategic diversification away from single-commodity dependency, and the partnerships that build capacity rather than extract it. Audiences leave with a working model for development that generates durable growth, not just short-term GDP numbers.

Food Security Is National Security: What the Supply Chain Collapse Taught Us, and What Comes Next

The 2020–2022 global supply chain failure exposed something that had been true for decades: food security is not an agricultural issue, it is a strategic infrastructure issue, and most nations had quietly outsourced theirs. Larisa Miller built Keystone Farm Future specifically to address that failure, creating the first vertically integrated beef supply program in the United States, partnering with more than twenty family farms and establishing the first PA Preferred beef designation for a grocery chain. In this keynote, she draws from that operational experience and from parallel work in African food systems to deliver a strategic case for treating food security as national security: the supply chain architecture that actually holds under stress, the partnership models that protect both farmers and consumers, and the policy frameworks that separate nations that will eat from those that will not.

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Leadership, Reinvention, and the Architecture of Building

Now What: The Strategic Architecture of Reinvention

The question is not whether your business, or your career, will face a moment that requires complete reinvention. The question is whether you will have a framework ready when that moment arrives. Larisa Miller has spent her entire career building, rebuilding, and architecting reinventions in real time, across more than thirty countries: a global advisory firm, board roles on four continents, a publishing record, and a presence in government corridors and royal courts. None of it was the result of resilience as a sentiment. It was the result of architecture. This keynote is built for leaders facing transformation: how to move from surviving disruption to designing your next iteration with intention. Equal parts strategic and personal, it delivers the frameworks and the proof that they work.

Build Before You're Ready: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting, Scaling, and Staying in the Game

Nobody who has built something meaningful did it with every advantage in place at the start. The myth of the perfect moment, the right investor, and the fully formed plan has stopped more businesses from existing than any market condition ever has. This keynote is built for entrepreneurs and emerging professionals who are figuring it out in real time. Larisa Miller has spent her entire career building from scratch, in rooms where nobody expected her to be, across more than thirty countries on five continents. What she has constructed, decade after decade, was not the result of waiting for conditions to align. It was the result of moving when the conditions were imperfect and building the plane on the way down. This keynote delivers honest, specific, actionable frameworks for making the first move, building credibility before you have a track record, navigating the loneliness and pressure of early-stage building, and positioning for scale when the moment arrives. Not theory. Operational reality from someone who has lived it.

Build to Last: The Architecture of an Enterprise That Survives Its Founders

Most businesses do not fail because of the market. They fail because the founder built something that could not survive without them, or built something that could not adapt when the founder finally got out of the way. Larisa Miller has spent two decades building and advising businesses across more than thirty countries, watching which ones survive generational transitions and which ones collapse the moment the original architecture is tested. This keynote delivers the operating frameworks that separate the two: how to design a business that can scale beyond the founder, how to build the internal systems and the relational infrastructure that survive when the original team changes, and how to make the hard decisions about ownership, governance, and succession before they make themselves. Built for founders, second-stage entrepreneurs, and the investors and advisors who guide them. Not theory. The actual decisions that determine whether what you have built today will still exist in twenty years.

Built From Zero: A Practitioner's Account of Building a Global Practice in Twenty Years

Most career stories told from a stage are inspirational. Few are operational. Larisa Miller has spent two decades building Phoenix Global from nothing into a specialized advisory firm operating across more than thirty countries, serving governments, family offices, Fortune 500 enterprises, and founders. The path was unconventional, the markets were not stable, and there was no playbook. This keynote is the unfiltered practitioner’s account of how it actually happened: the moments when the decision in front of her would have been the wrong one if she had taken the obvious path, the partnerships that materially changed the trajectory, the rooms she walked into that were not built for her, and the operating principles she developed along the way that now shape every advisory engagement Phoenix Global takes. Not a memoir delivered from a stage. A working brief on what it takes to build something substantial in a global business environment from a starting position of zero. Built for audiences that want the operating reality of a global business career rather than the highlight reel.

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Family Offices, Private Wealth & Next-Generation Capital

Legacy Capital in New Markets: How the Next Generation Is Deploying Differently

The generational transfer of wealth now underway is the largest in recorded history, and the allocation decisions being made by the inheritors look almost nothing like those of the founders. Legacy capital is moving into emerging markets, impact-aligned infrastructure, agritech, and cross-border ventures that the previous generation of family office governance would not have touched. Drawing from active work with family offices across the United States, the Gulf, and Europe, Larisa Miller delivers a strategic briefing on what this generational shift actually looks like inside the institutions managing it: the governance frameworks that enable it, the due diligence standards that differ from traditional private equity, and the cross-border partnership structures that are emerging as the vehicle of choice. For principals, next-gen leadership, and the advisors who serve them.

The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses

Women have always shaped family enterprises. What is changing is the formalization of that influence into governance, operational leadership, and capital allocation authority. Larisa Miller contributed to the Emerald Publishing volume The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses and has spent years working directly with family enterprises navigating the transition. In this keynote, she moves past the surface conversation about representation and into the structural work: succession architecture, governance design, the integration of spousal and next-generation voices into decision-making, and the cultural shifts that separate family enterprises that sustain across generations from those that fracture. For family principals, next-generation leadership, and the professional advisors who guide them.

Family Office Wealth and Technology: What Comes After the Legacy Allocation Model

The traditional family office allocation model, public equities, fixed income, a private equity sleeve, some real estate, a minor alternatives position, was built for a financial environment that no longer exists. The family offices positioning for the next thirty years are making fundamentally different bets, particularly in technology, emerging market infrastructure, and direct venture allocation. Drawing from her work at the intersection of family office governance and next-generation capital deployment, Larisa Miller delivers a working briefing on what the new model looks like, where the actual opportunities sit, and how family office governance adapts when the allocation playbook changes. For principals, CIOs, and senior advisors.

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Technology, Infrastructure & Digital Transformation

Blockchain in Government: When the Technology Is Ready and the Institutions Are Not

The case for blockchain in public services has been made in theory for nearly a decade. The reality on the ground is that the technology now works, the cost structure has collapsed, and a small number of governments, particularly in the Gulf, have moved into actual deployment. The gap between what is technically possible and what most institutions have implemented is enormous, and the countries that close that gap first will have structural advantages in transparency, service delivery, and citizen trust that compound for decades. Drawing from direct work on digital government projects with Phoenix Global, Larisa Miller delivers a strategic briefing on where blockchain actually belongs in public services, the institutional adaptation required to deploy it successfully, and what the early deployments have taught us about what works and what does not.

AI, Public Services, and the Question of Trust

Every government in the world is now making decisions about how to integrate artificial intelligence into public-facing services. Most of those decisions are being made without a coherent framework for the question that actually determines outcomes: where does AI build citizen trust, and where does it corrode it? Drawing from active work on digital transformation projects across multiple sovereign clients, Larisa Miller delivers a strategic framework for AI deployment in public services: the categories of work where automation demonstrably improves outcomes, the categories where it collapses trust, and the governance architecture that separates the two. For government leaders, policy advisors, and the technology partners serving them.

Infrastructure Is Strategy: Why Transportation and Logistics Decide Who Wins Emerging Markets

Most analyses of emerging market opportunity focus on demographics, resources, and market size. The operators who actually win in those markets know that none of it matters without functioning transportation and logistics infrastructure, and that the countries making the right infrastructure bets right now will be the beneficiaries of the next two decades of global trade reorientation. Drawing from Phoenix Global’s work on transportation and trade corridor projects, and direct experience with sovereign infrastructure programs in the Gulf and Africa, Larisa Miller delivers a strategic briefing on infrastructure as competitive positioning: which corridors are forming, who is financing them, what the partnership structures look like, and why infrastructure decisions made this decade will determine economic geography for the rest of the century.

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No Room at the Table? Build a Bigger Table: Women, Power, and the Business of Leading on a Global Stage

The conversation about women in business has too often been about access and not enough about architecture. Access gets you in the room. Architecture determines whether the room is built for you to succeed once you are there. Larisa Miller has spent two decades operating in some of the most male-dominated business environments on earth, from the corridors of Gulf government to the boardrooms of international development to the stages of global forums, and she has never once waited for the room to become more comfortable before doing the work. This keynote is not about overcoming obstacles. It is about building the strategic, financial, and relational infrastructure that makes obstacles irrelevant. Drawing from her record across more than thirty countries, multiple board and advisory positions, and a career built entirely on her own terms, Larisa delivers a frank, specific, and unsentimental guide to what it actually takes for women to lead at the highest levels of global business. Not inspiration. A blueprint.

What Audiences Say

“Larisa Miller has shown so much value as a speaker at our conferences around the world. Her insight in business and her personal experiences in the Middle East have inspired so many of our attendees, and I am so grateful for having her join us.”
Neil A. GreeneFounder & CEO, JABOY ProductionsELITE Global Leaders Conference seriesRome · Madrid · London · Bogotá · Puerto Rico
“Larisa is a powerhouse on stage, effortlessly commanding the attention with her dynamic presence and profound expertise. Her understanding of the global family office landscape is unparalleled, but it’s her rare ability to weave insightful knowledge with heartfelt, relatable stories that truly sets her apart. Whether she’s delivering cutting-edge industry insights or touching personal anecdotes, Larisa leaves her audience not just informed, but energized, inspired and transformed. Every time she speaks, it’s an experience — one that resonates long after the event is over.”
Sasha LundCEO, Core Values ConsultingELITE Global Leaders ConferenceRome, Italy
“We need to share the recording of this session with everyone. It was like an executive MBA session.”
Angela ScottHead of Business Strategy, SiemensSiemens corporate engagement
“Larisa Miller, I wish I could continue to take in your advice on entrepreneurship and innovation, and, of course, to share more laughter. What a wonderfully motivating speech while also being so entertaining.”
Marion FogliDeputy CEO, Alpian BankFemale Innovation Forum
“Larisa B. Miller’s keynote address was incredibly powerful and inspiring. She had the whole room captivated from start to finish.”
Cllr Clodah HigginsCounselor, Galway City Council; Former Mayor of Galway, IrelandGalway, Ireland
“Larisa Miller, you always speak from the heart and address such sensitive and important topics with authenticity and grace.”
Elena AndreouCEO, Go Digital Globally

Formats & Customization

All keynotes are tailored to the specific audience and framing of the engagement. Every topic listed above can be delivered as a keynote, a half-day or full-day masterclass, a university or accelerator workshop, or a multi-session executive intensive. Standard delivery formats include 45–60 minute keynotes, moderated fireside conversations, on-campus workshops for universities and accelerator programs, and one- or two-day masterclasses for executive teams and leadership cohorts. Hybrid programs that combine topics across pillars are available for multi-session engagements.

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