Elizabeth Lyons

Liz Lyons is an Associate Professor of Management at the University of California, San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. Her research focuses on organizational and innovation economics with labor markets and management as a common underlying theme. She has examined how incentive design, coordination barriers, technology adoption, and inequality affect entrepreneurship, organizational performance, and innovation.

In addition to research and teaching, she advises early-stage start-up founders primarily through the Wavemaker Lab, and works with organizations across geographies, sectors, and industries to improve their management practices with a primary focus on team building and incentive design.

Liz holds a PhD in strategic management from the University of Toronto.