Areas of Expertise

• Behavioral Coaching
• Assessment Feedback
• Custom Presentations

Level/Type of Individual Clients Served Within Organizations

• Corporate Officers
• Senior Executives
• Female Executives
• Mid-Level Management
• High Potential

Elizabeth works with all business functions in an organization, including IT, R&D, Marketing, Sales, HR, Operations and Finance.

As an executive behavioral coach, Elizabeth excels at creating trusting, high-performance partnerships with senior executives, middle managers, and high-potentials in a wide variety of functions including sales/marketing, finance, R & D, operations, and human resources.

Elizabeth’s research on credibility and her focus on skills and measurable improvement offer leaders proven methods for actionable, behavioral change.

Elizabeth has 15 years of both hands-on and observational business experience. She worked as a senior leader in sales/marketing and business development in the manufacturing sector, managing inside and sales teams and developing and overseeing marketing and business development initiatives.

She has been an award-winning business reporter and columnist for a daily newspaper and numerous publications, covering a range of industries, decision-makers and workplace issues of Fortune 500 corporations and small businesses. She has profiled CEOs and business owners who have won and lost at leadership and has experienced workplace and leadership challenges first hand as a manager in the manufacturing sector.

Elizabeth is the co-author of The Transparency Edge: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business (McGraw-Hill, October 2003), chosen by Fast Company magazine as their “Book of the Month” for March 2004. The book has been translated into four languages, including Spanish and Chinese, and has been among Bookscan’s list of 50 best-selling new business books in America. It also hit #7 on Barnes & Noble’s list of bestselling business ethics books.

Elizabeth designs and presents programs on transparent leadership, high performance teams, and authenticity, with her co-author, Barbara Pagano, to corporate audiences and leadership conferences. Their high-impact programs give organizations knowledge and skills for surviving in competitive times. Elizabeth also contributes articles on leadership to a wide array of business publications, including The Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Consulting to Management, PINK, and American Executive.

Elizabeth graduated from Vanderbilt University. Because of her work in leadership development, Elizabeth was recently named an adjunct faculty member of the Leadership Institute of Baptist Health Care (#10 on Fortune’s 2002 list of "Best Companies to Work For" and winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award), which provides leadership training to CEOs and senior vice presidents of healthcare organizations worldwide.