Lizzie Azzolino is a Partner at Evolution and leads the Executive Talent Alignment practice. She’s a partner to evolving CEOs, founders, senior leaders, and teams during pivotal periods of recalibration — aligning role, leadership, and legacy through identity-level coaching, executive talent placement, and peer-based leadership development.
A former brand and innovation strategist, Lizzie works across professional, personal, relational, and organizational dimensions — helping leaders and companies step into what’s next when conventional paths no longer fit. Whether guiding a founder through a time of inflection and growth, supporting an executive to reimagine their life’s work, or placing a first-of-its-kind leadership hire, she aligns the right people, at the right time, with the right roles, relationships, and realities –– in work and in the world.
Her clients include leadership teams at Amazon, Airbnb, LinkedIn, CHANEL, Function Health, LTSE, Modern Fertility, and emerging ventures shaping the future of work, wellbeing, and society. They are leaders building new categories, holding visions others don’t yet understand — and choosing to lead them anyway.
Lizzie brings two decades of experience across innovation strategy, leadership development, and executive talent. Earlier in her career, she advised companies like SPANX, Nike, PayPal, Allbirds, and Volkswagen through defining moments of growth. A personal inflection point called her to integrate the inner and outer work of leadership — creating a signature approach that helps people close the gap between inner knowing and lived reality, faster than most think possible.
She is an ICF Master Certified Coach, a former faculty member at New Ventures West, and a recipient of the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Service. Lizzie serves on the board of Women in Innovation, hosts the Now at Work podcast, and brings a deep foundation in IFS, Enneagram, energetics, and systemic team dynamics. At the heart of it all is one core belief: each of us is one of one — here to lead, live, and create as only we can. She lives in Los Angeles with her puppy Barkley, and loves traveling globally to collaborate with clients.
“Before working with Lizzie, I spent years trying to find the perfect CEO for my agency. Within two months of working with her, that person is in the role and it has completely changed the course of my business. The caliber of the candidates and the extent to which she truly understands, along with the high-touch way in which she guides the process are just unbelievable.”
“It’s as if Lizzie has x-ray vision into your truth — and helps you rewrite and your entire reality around it. As a leader and as a woman, I now have access to choices, behaviors, and opportunities I never realized were possible. With Lizzie, I’ve not only reclaimed my vision — I’m finally leading from it.”
“Before I met Lizzie, I was stuck. Now I’m on a clear path – a path that I love. I am far more confident and happy in my skin. It’s one thing to ‘think’ this intellectually – but actually feeling it has been life-changing, and I’m seeing countless tangible results. She is different from other coaches because she challenges you, takes you deeper and connects so many dots – leading to holistic personal, professional and relational growth, inside and out.”
“With Lizzie, it’s not about filling roles. She immediately understands the finest details and the business, and helps us refine our vision. She cares about the team and the trajectory of the business. She looks out for everyone’s best interest while finding the topmost talent — magically! She has connected us to the very best senior talent across several disciplines — design, technology, strategy, marketing, and business operations — with ease and incredible success.”