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Marisa Liao (She/Her)

Pioneer · DISC type DSI
VP of Talent at Ascenda
📍 United States

Marisa Liao is the VP of Talent at Ascend, leveraging her global talent acquisition experience from Meta, Deliveroo, and Binance. An ICF Certified Coach with an MBA, she specializes in building high-performing recruiting teams. Colleagues describe her as a strategic, empowering, and results-driven leader with great attention to detail.

Outside of her corporate role, she is deeply passionate about empowering others through her coaching practice, Elevance Coaching. Marisa is also a founding member of Uncommon, a private network dedicated to developing the next generation of female leaders in Asia, and has presented public speaking workshops.

She is a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), which she uses in her coaching.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
VP of Talent
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
Personality Overview

How Marisa shows up

Driven But Considerate
Decisive But Friendly
Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders) If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product

Priorities

Topics Marisa cares about

Leadership Coaching
As the founder of Elevance Coaching and an ICF-certified coach, she is passionate about helping professionals elevate their careers and leadership potential.
Global Talent Strategy
Has deep expertise in scaling teams and creating hiring strategies across North America, EMEA, and APAC for companies like Binance and Deliveroo.
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Career

Work history

12-2023
VP of Talent
Ascenda
9-2023
Founder, Career and Leadership ICF Certified Coach
Elevance Coaching
3-2021
Founding Member
Uncommon
4-2022 - 9-2023
Global Head of Talent Acquisition
Binance
7-2020 - 4-2022
Head of Global Business Recruitment
Deliveroo
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Media appearances

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Education
BA
University of California, Davis
MBA
St. Mary’s University College Twickenham London
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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