It was such a pleasure having Lisa join us as a CREATE! Festival keynote speaker this year. With her passion, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, she embodies the genuine spirit of the festival, and continues to inspire generations of emerging entrepreneurs.
Lisa Song Sutton
Top 10 Social Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, & Fast Company Writer, TEDx Speaker and Miss Nevada
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Lisa Song Sutton
Biography
Lisa Song Sutton is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. With a background in business litigation, Lisa began her career working in a top Las Vegas law firm before launching and scaling several companies, taking them from $0 to millions in revenue, across various industries including real estate, food and shipping retail.
As the daughter of a USAF Vietnam War Veteran, Lisa is a strong advocate for the veteran community. She is currently a General Partner of The Veteran Fund, a $20M venture capital fund that invests in veteran-led companies.
In addition to her work in real estate and venture capital, Lisa is an experienced speaker, sharing her message of leadership, empowerment, and taking action with audiences from the TEDx stage to local schools, encouraging the private sector to become more involved in their communities.
Lisa was the first Miss Nevada of Asian descent and remains actively involved in her community, serving on the boards of StartUpNV, Nevada's largest statewide business incubator, and the Young President's Organization (YPO) Las Vegas chapter. She was recently recognized as Vegas Inc.'s 40 Under 40 and also serves on the board of the Nevada Policy Research Institute. Find more information about Lisa at www.lisasongsutton.com.
Lisa Song Sutton
Featured Keynote Programs
7 Ways To Use Your Personal Brand to Reach and Make Millions
Lisa built an impactful personal brand through modeling and pageantry. As her businesses grew, her personal brand reached new audiences in the entrepreneurial and start-up spaces. Lisa has discovered and utilized 7 key lessons in how to successfully combine your personal brand with your business endeavors to grow both accounts in a positive and impactful manner.
How to Overcome Being Told You’re Not Good Enough
Lisa was the shortest contestant and the oldest contestant in her division at the Miss Nevada United States pageant in 2014. She was one of the few who were not born and raised in the state. With these significant strikes against her, Lisa defied the odds and won the crown by doubling down on her competition strengths: interview and on-stage question.
Lisa has replicated this model time and time again throughout her business career. She will share her personal stories and show you how to select and enhance your strengths, launching your goals.
Feminine & Powerful
5 Lessons in Navigating a “Man’s Business”
Lisa has always worked in heavily male dominated industries. She started her post-school career in the legal industry. Moving forward to opening businesses in male driven industries including real estate, tech and food and beverage wasn’t an easy path. Lisa shares her top 5 tactics in how to maintain integrity, especially when working with male counter-parts, and negotiating to get the deal done.
Launching a Start-Up on a Shoe-String Budget
While many companies can choose to take on institutional investors or private equity, Lisa is a big believer in self-funding and boot-strapping your company. She has done this several times over and advises other companies on how to do so. Lisa shares the tactics that worked, and the ones that didn’t, to help guide you in creating a successful business without having to give away most of it to investors before you even have a chance to start.