Elizabeth Blau

Elizabeth Blau’s sense of leadership is one steeped deeply in responsibility. It’s the sense that being responsible for a business, for a team, is an all-encompassing, 24-hour thing. It’s an ethic instilled in her early – as is so often the case for those whose roots come from New York and New England. From her very first taste of leadership – managing a team of high school kids at a candy store that made its own chocolates and buttercreams – all the way to helming major restaurant development operations for marquis casino brands like MGM Resorts International and Wynn Las Vegas, Elizabeth never shies from rolling up her sleeves and digging in to work with her team. Today that looks quite a bit different, she’s not scooping ice cream or working on the line in the kitchen, but her drive to move the needle remains. When the global pandemic wiped out her industry and put so many people in dire straits, Elizabeth joined with several other powerhouse “momma bears” and created Delivering with Dignity – an emergency response to provide food to those in need. At their one year anniversary in March 2021 they had served over 328,000 meals. Though her work ethic and drive were baked in from early on, it was Fenway - the first dog she had with her husband (and business partner) Chef Kim Canteenwalla – who really drove home what responsibility truly means. What motivates people? Why do they do what they do? What does leadership actually mean in today’s world? Good questions, right? That’s what Cathy Brooks, thought. And it’s why she created Talk, Unleashed – a new podcast of entirely candid conversations with fascinating people doing remarkable things. This weekly podcast will feature guests from arts and entertainment to business to technology to food to activism to politics (well, we’ll see on that last one). Talk Unleashed invites these influencers to consider the things that have led to them to where they are, the lessons they’ve learned and how all those things can come together to create a better world. #BlauandAssociates #HoneySalt #ElizabethBlau #Restauraneur #JamesBeardNominee #KimCanteenwalla #SmallBusiness #Leadership #TalkUnleashed #UnleashedLeadershi #MGM_Resorts #