Lizzie Shupak is an international experience designer, preoccupied by the impact of diversity on innovation and large-scale problem solving.
Lizzie Shupak is fascinated by people and what makes them tick. She studied Theology and Religious Studies at Downing College, Cambridge, where she began to explore the positive and negative aspects of conflicting perspectives about the world and how it operates. After graduating with a First Class degree, she surprised everyone, including herself, by rejecting her place at The City Law School, and departing instead for New York where she began a career in brand strategy and communication design. She maintained her academic interests, affiliated to the Programme for Religion and Ethics in War and Peace-making at the University of Edinburgh, partnering with the Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University. Her research focused on visual and verbal semiotics in the context of military ethics education, and specifically curricula development for young soldiers.
A year ago, her life took a different turn, when she began to tour the world with her partner, Peter Mandeno, and a 24 inch wok. Together they started producing pop-up events across 10 countries, engaging nearly 3000 people as a result. Their aim: to reinvent networking; the result: a global success. Find out more about the Wok+Wine phenomenon here.