Liz van Hoek

Strategic thinker and people-oriented leader with the skills and experience to drive operational success. Delivers measurable results and leverages data to track performance, make informed decisions, and take action. Eager to build intuitive systems, relentlessly improve process, and scale solutions. Known for collaborative approach and leading effective teams by building trust, cultivating growth mindsets, and influencing cross-functional coordination and cohesion.

• ELIZABETH MARTYN | Director of Service Strategy & Implementation, Sonder - "Liz possesses a keen ability to wrap her mind around a complicated or unclear process and bring intuitive and logical standard operating procedures to life. Her warm approach and passion for teamwork and doing the right thing naturally help her to eliminate barriers and work effectively on cross-functional teams."
• JD MODRAK | Senior Operations Manager, Sonder - "Liz is a hyper organized, trustworthy and intelligent leader. During her time at Sonder she literally wrote the book on efficiently running a market from a daily communications and best practice perspective, to ensure that the most crucial functions (of which there are too many to count) are communicated, delegated and properly tracked. We literally copied her entire playbook to bring these practices to our market in Minneapolis. One of the truly differentiating factors for Liz vs. her peers was her comfortability in identifying problems, and then her ability to easily utilize our databases to gather and arrange data to create insights. Her ability to pull and model data was easily top 10% among her peers, and benefited my city greatly when Liz designed, implemented and completed a huge data integrity project during her last weeks at Sonder."
• TOM BEGLEY | Chief of Staff to the COO, Sonder - "Liz excels at bringing structure and strategy into complex and disjointed systems. I was continually impressed by the way she sorted through mountains of information to distill key points and capture necessary details to move projects along. Liz's get-it-done attitude is an incredible benefit to any team lucky enough to have her. Plus, she's a warm, welcoming, and personable colleague."
• PACE MYRICK | Senior Learning and Development Manager, Sonder- "When I started working with Liz, I was initially impressed with how quickly she could form a relationship. As I continued working with her, I saw her wonderful ability to create an actionable plan, execute those plans and hold stakeholders and other parties accountable. She was a true asset to Sonder."
• TIM HUMANGIT | Operations Manager, Caviar (Square Inc) - "Liz is an awesome thought partner and deep thinker- she's always up for collaborating and readily invests her time to develop solutions for complex problems that contribute to team and organizational goals. I loved working with her at Square because of the level of rigor and creativity she brings to every task or project she's involved with- she's the best at brainstorming (probably one of the best I've seen in my career)!"
• ELIZABETH ESHELMAN | Regional Operations Manager, Favor Delivery - "Liz is a perceptive and creative thinker, often finding needs before they are noticed by other team members. She's quick not only to learn but to master any system you put before her."
• MICHAEL MOORE | Product Manager, Favor Delivery- "Liz is a delight to work with. A person with fantastic attention to detail, Liz's work always exceeds expectations. If you are looking for someone that interfaces well with clients, customers, and everyone else, Liz is the person you want. She's a wonderful presenter and communicator. She commands attention when speaking to groups, clearly conveying her ideas and thoughts to those listening."