Engineer → Attorney → Founder → Mayor

Turn Setbacks into Strength.
Success into Service.

I help women and emerging leaders engineer lives where purpose, connection, and resilience create fulfillment—not just achievement.

"Success is getting what you want, but fulfillment is giving what you've got."

Watch Elizabeth Speak

Experience authentic stories, practical frameworks, and transformative insights.

The Five Lessons

A framework for transformation that threads through every talk, workshop, and conversation.

Life is About Who You Know

Build relational capital and community. Success is co-authored, not solo.

Challenges Are Blessings in Disguise

Every obstacle hides a new skill, ally, or calling waiting to be discovered.

Follow Your Heart

Logic leads to achievement; intuition leads to alignment and meaning.

Giving is the Secret of Life

The fastest way to heal is to help. Service creates significance.

Don't Do Life Alone

Collaboration, mentorship, and support turn endurance into evolution.

Speaking Engagements

Keynotes, workshops, and guest lectures that inspire action and equip audiences with practical frameworks.

Who I Speak To

Two audiences at the same crossroads—one redefining success, the other defining it.

Women in Transition

Professionals and entrepreneurs navigating divorce, burnout, stalled growth, or leadership fatigue. You've done everything right but still feel unfulfilled. You're ready to rebuild purpose without losing achievement.

Emerging Leaders

Students and early-career professionals seeking clarity and courage to design a meaningful life from the start. You're overwhelmed by possibilities and pressure, ready to define success on your own terms.

"I speak to women and emerging leaders who are ready to engineer a life where success and service finally match."

About Elizabeth

Engineer → Attorney → Founder → Mayor

Elizabeth Yang is an engineer-turned-attorney, founder of Yang Law Offices & Optinizers, and the sitting Mayor of Monterey Park. Her talks blend storytelling, systems thinking, and compassion to show how fulfillment emerges when you use what you've got to lift others.

Cross-Discipline Credibility

Engineering, law, entrepreneurship, and public service translated into actionable frameworks.

Authenticity Through Adversity

Navigated single parenthood, public setbacks, and a four-year divorce with transparency and resilience.

Operational Insight

Founder of Yang Law Offices & Optinizers—turns philosophy into process, proving fulfillment can be systemized.

Cultural Fluency

First-generation Asian-American woman leading across law, tech, and politics—proof that empathy and excellence coexist.

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Keynotes, guest lectures, and workshops for students, faculty, women's networks, and leadership teams.

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