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Liesl is our CEO and the founder of two other platforms in the Goodness Exchange orbit: our education site at EWCed and our endeavor to improve business and healthcare culture at Amazing World Media. She is a Harvard grad with a laser focus on using her background in design, economics, and education to make the world a better place for others. She also brings a global perspective to her work background in international travel and study. If you’d like to collaborate with the Goodness Exchange or discuss how our content can integrate into your, business, healthcare space, or classroom, please reach out to her!

Liesl Ulrich-Verderber

Chief Executive Officer

Liesl Ulrich-Verderber is the co-founder and CEO of the Goodness Exchange. Since 2014, the Goodness Exchange has been a leader in bringing people instant access to positive news without politics or ads to help them cut through today’s negative noise and cultivate a more positive worldview.

Liesl graduated from Harvard University in 2015 and brought her talents to the Goodness Exchange in its earliest form to help transform it into a global media company with over 175,000 followers worldwide and platforms that have touched education, healthcare, and business. Her background in design, writing, business, education, neuroscience, and economics gives her a unique perspective in the worlds of business and digital media. She uses this perspective to help people navigate today’s overwhelming media landscape to see “behind the curtain” and make better decisions to serve their mental health and sense of wellbeing.

Contrary to what many people assume, Liesl has not been a life-long optimist. After a decade of working to understand the psychology and neuroscience of what makes people tick in her studies at Harvard, extensive cultural immersion traveling and studying around the world, and her work, she has seen her own approach to the world evolve and discovered some of the ways positive news changes us on a fundamental level. She doesn’t approach positive news from an angle of rose colored glasses or “hoping for the best.” Instead, she works to give people a solutions-based, research-backed understanding of how we can use positive news as a way to improve many aspects of our lives.

Her work with the Goodness Exchange now focuses on helping organizations reduce burnout and increase employee wellbeing and retention by making positive news a part of their wellness benefits and cultural initiatives. Today, she shares her knowledge and insights about the tangible impact positive news can make in our lives by speaking both virtually and in person.  

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By the age of 27, Liesl was also the founder of three media outlets aimed at elevating goodness and progress for us all: an education site EWCed, an endeavor to improve business and healthcare culture at Amazing World Media, and the Conspiracy of Goodness Network, a personal and professional growth platform where people who value and work in goodness can connect, collaborate, and change the world together.

Her intention is simple: to celebrate the quiet wave of goodness and progress going on all around us that almost no one knows about, and open a new era for us all by changing the negative dialogue of our times.

Pretty audacious aspirations, but the unique alchemy of her upbringing is shining a light on an enormous positive wave, well underway in the world, that almost no one knows about… yet. This will change if Liesl has anything to say about it.

Liesl is also an avid canoer!

She was raised in the Green Mountains of Vermont and brought her rural sensibilities to a Harvard education; a combination that is kicking the doors open on possibility. With a laser focus on using her background in design, economics, and education to make the world a better place, she has developed a personal mantra around what she gives her attention to: “Is it novel? Is it useful? How does it help?"

Carrying both Irish and US passports, she also brings a global perspective to her work, having spent most of her life traveling to off-the-beaten-path places around the world. As a global citizen, Liesl is uniquely positioned to dig in and answer some of the most important questions of our time.

Find Liesl on Instagram @Liesl.UV!

Author's Articles

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Want to Reduce your Waste? Here’s a Guide to Get You Started

If you’ve ever stood in front of an array of waste bins at the airport holding your empty coffee cup wondering “Is this garbage? Is this recycling? What do I do with this stuff?” and you desperately wanted to do the right thing but didn’t know what to do, this is the article for you. We’re going to break down what’s waste, what’s not, and what we can do to make waste a thing of the past.

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Seeing the World with Sound: How Humans Can Learn to Use Echolocation!

Close your eyes and just take a second to listen to the world around you. Can you pick a single sound out of the noise and locate where it’s coming from? For those who are blind or vision impaired, the idea of “seeing” with sound isn’t far off. In fact, there is a growing community of people around the world who are using a technique called "FlashSonar" to train their brains to see the world around them in stunning detail using sound.

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Turn off Autopilot: See the World with Fresh Eyes Using Street Wisdom

How often are we on autopilot when we are on our routine commutes? When was the last time you really noticed your surroundings as you walked through downtown? Did you really notice the sounds of the birds when you walked into your backyard to tend the garden? We spend so much time getting from one place to another to “do things” that we hardly ever look at the spaces between those tasks and see their richness. Here's how we can change that with Street Wisdom.

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We’ve Halted a Major Climate Crisis Before. Here’s How We Can Do It Again

What if more people knew the success stories when it comes to solving the world’s big problems? In 1987, all 198 UN Member States adopted a protocol that’s still in effect today, and is estimated to repair the planet’s damaged ozone layer by 2065. Here’s the proof you’ve been looking for that the world came together to halt a major climate crisis before, and it is possible for us to do it again.

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Boldly Going Where No Black Woman Had Gone Before: How Star Trek Changed NASA

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Uhura) changed far more than the television game. As one of the only black women on the small screen at the time and with words of encouragement from Martin Luther King Jr., this champion for diversity changed not only the history of science fiction, but the history of space exploration. Her work became undeniable proof that if you can see it, you can be it.

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