Meet Our Founder

Elizabeth "Liz" McCurdy is the founder of Slaying Ordinary — a radical reinvention of workplace leadership rooted in inclusion, data, and lived experience. After two decades as a high-ranking HR executive in complex, high-growth organizations, Elizabeth walked away from the corporate ladder to rebuild the system she once helped uphold.


Diagnosed as neurodivergent later in life, she saw firsthand how traditional HR systems fail the very people they claim to support. What followed was a personal and professional reckoning — and the birth of a new kind of leadership.

Liz's Story

The Turning Point

For years, Elizabeth delivered award-winning HR strategies: scaling global operations, restructuring teams, and leading performance and culture transformations across thousands of employees. But behind the scenes, she was masking burnout, silencing her instincts, and bending to a system built for conformity — not humanity.

Everything changed when she realized: the workplace isn’t broken for some of us. It’s working exactly as designed — and that design needs to change.

The Mission

Slaying Ordinary

Slaying Ordinary exists to challenge outdated leadership models and build new ones that don’t rely on disclosure, diagnosis, or burnout to get noticed. Through tools like the Inclusive Leadership Baseline, the Inclusion Index, and unapologetic content, Elizabeth is creating a playbook for leaders who want to build workplaces that work for everyone.


Her work centers the people too often left behind: the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, the quietly burned out, and the ones who “don’t look disabled” but are carrying the weight of an inaccessible world.

Values

What Liz Believes

True inclusion means not having to ask.

  • Data is more powerful than assumptions.
  • HR should be about performance, not policing.
  • Leadership isn’t a personality trait — it’s a system you build.
  • Burnout isn’t a personal failure — it’s a workplace design flaw.

Credentials & Credibility

  • 20+ years in senior HR and People Strategy roles
  • Built & scaled teams of 3,000+ globally
  • Winner of multiple CEO and President’s Awards for innovation
  • Creator of the Inclusive Leadership Baseline (ILB) and the I-7 scoring system
  • Speaker, strategist, and advisor to startups and Fortune 500s
  • Lived experience with neurodivergence, chronic burnout, and systems change

Want to work with Liz?

Elizabeth offers advisory services, fractional and interim HR, consulting, training, and keynote speaking for organizations ready to change and move from performative to transformative inclusion.