Lesley Li Keynote Speaker
- TEDx speaker and fintech founder
- CEO & co-founder of AI-driven wealthtech U Impact
- Three-time Innovate Finance Women in FinTech honouree
Lesley Li's Biography
Lesley Li is a TEDx speaker, fintech founder, and former banking professional whose work sits at the intersection of money, behaviour, and responsible technology. With over a decade of experience in financial services, she has worked at leading global institutions including J.P. Morgan, Barclays, and Mizuho, gaining deep insight into financial markets.
She holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge – a Master of Finance and a Master of Industrial Engineering. She is the CEO and co-founder of U Impact – a wealthtech company leveraging Generative AI and behavioural science to help activate the next generation of investors. Lesley is a strong advocate of a human-centred approach to innovation, believing in the powerful combination of technology, science, and heart to drive genuine and lasting financial inclusion.
Having grown up in China, built her banking career in the UK, and founded her company in Germany, Lesley brings a truly global perspective to her speaking. Her talks draw on lived experience as well as professional expertise, offering audiences both strategic insight and deeply human reflection on confidence, authenticity, and leadership in an increasingly complex financial world.
Lesley is a regular speaker on international stages including Money20/20 (Amsterdam and Las Vegas), Innovate Finance IFGS, Morningstar events, and FIBE Berlin, where she has delivered both thought-leadership and motivational keynotes. A passionate advocate for women’s empowerment, she has been named three times on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist, recognising her contribution to the industry and her leadership in advancing inclusive finance.
Known for combining intellectual rigour with warmth and authenticity, Lesley translates complex ideas into messages that resonate with senior leaders, organisations, and diverse international audiences. Through her speaking, she creates a powerful exchange of insight and energy, helping individuals and organisations move from uncertainty to clarity, and from insight to meaningful action.
Lesley Li's Speaking Topics
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Tech, Science, and Heart: Building Financial Systems That Truly Include Everyone
Keynote | Purpose-driven leadership
Financial inclusion cannot be solved by technology alone. In this keynote, Lesley argues for a new model that combines technology, behavioural science, and human empathy to create systems people can actually engage with. Using practical examples from her work as a founder and investor advocate, she shows how organisations can move beyond good intentions to deliver meaningful, measurable impact.
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Women, Money, and Power: Reclaiming Confidence in Financial Decision-Making
Keynote | Women’s leadership & empowerment
Despite progress, many women still feel excluded from financial systems not because of capability, but confidence. Drawing on her global experience and personal journey, Lesley explores the structural and psychological barriers women face — and how they can be dismantled. This keynote take a data-driven approach which is both practical and empowering, offering a new narrative around money, authenticity, and leadership.
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From Uncertainty to Confidence: Rethinking Our Relationship with Money
Keynote | Motivational + Strategic
In a world of financial complexity and constant change, many individuals and organisations feel paralysed rather than empowered. Drawing on her experience in global banking, fintech innovation, and behavioural science, Lesley explores why confidence, not information is the real missing ingredient in financial decision-making. This keynote helps audiences reframe their relationship with money, overcome hesitation, and move from uncertainty to confident, intentional action.
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Responsible AI and the Future of Finance: Why Human Behaviour Still Matters
Keynote | Thought leadership
As AI reshapes financial services, the greatest risk is not technological failure but human misalignment. Lesley examines how Generative AI can be deployed responsibly to enhance decision-making, trust, and inclusion, rather than amplify bias or exclusion. Blending real-world fintech experience with behavioural insight, this talk challenges leaders to put humans, values, and purpose at the centre of AI-driven transformation.
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From Immigrant to Insider: Leadership, Identity, and Reinventing Yourself
Keynote | Inspirational / personal story
From growing up in China without speaking English, to studying at Cambridge, working in global banking, founding a fintech startup, and standing on international stages, Lesley shares a deeply personal story of reinvention. This keynote reflects on identity, resilience, and purpose, and how moments of disruption can become turning points for growth, clarity, and leadership.
Why Book Lesley Li as a speaker?
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She brings first hand authority from over a decade in global banking and fintech, combining experience at J.P. Morgan, Barclays and Mizuho with the perspective of a founder building the future of wealthtech.
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She translates complex ideas around money, behaviour and Generative AI into clear, human centred insights that help leaders design technology that builds trust and drives real inclusion.
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She offers rare credibility at the intersection of finance and innovation as CEO and co founder of a wealthtech company applying behavioural science to activate the next generation of investors.
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She brings a genuinely global lens shaped by growing up in China, building a career in the UK and founding a business in Germany, helping audiences navigate leadership across cultures and systems.
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She engages senior leaders and diverse international audiences with intellectual rigour and warmth, turning uncertainty into clarity and insight into confident, values led action.
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