Lizzie Azzolino is an executive coach, advisor, and facilitator who catalyzes leaders and teams through the defining transitions that reach deep into the core of who they are — from executive and founding team hiring and onboarding, to career and organizational reinvention, to stepping into greater scope, visibility, and legacy impact.
She brings a rare combination of experience across brand and innovation strategy, advanced coaching, group facilitation, and leadership development. This background allows her to support deep identity transformation, strategic clarity, and organizational realignment. She is known for helping leaders build new capacity to take action from presence and truth, rather than old patterns — combining inner knowing, strategy, and vision to accelerate their success.
Previously, Lizzie led strategy for now-iconic companies including Nike, PayPal, Dyson, Allbirds, Volkswagen, and SPANX — helping them become who we know them to be today. Now, she partners with executives at Amazon, LinkedIn, Airbnb, CHANEL, Goodwill, Function Health, and category-defining startups to align with their unique purpose — especially when building new models, navigating complexity, or stepping into roles that don’t fit convention.
Lizzie is an ICF Master Certified Coach, graduate of New Ventures West and Aletheia’s School of Integral Unfoldment, fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Coaching, recipient of the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Service, and passionate Co-Founder and Board Director at the global non-profit Women in Innovation. She hosts the Now at Work podcast and leverages diverse training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Enneagram, quantum transformation, and organizational dynamics. She brings an intuitive, strategic, and deeply human presence and empathy to every engagement.
“Lizzie is a secret weapon. She is the most versatile, practical, supportive, resourceful and inspiring person I’ve worked with in my career. At Airbnb and Autodesk, Lizzie was a hero to me and my teams. She is a very skilled coach to leaders — providing empathy first, but pushes you beyond your comfort zone to show up as best as one can as a leader. I’d recommend you hire Lizzie for just about any critical moment — she can help you shape strategies for large and small companies — while also making all of the individual players grow as they build.”
“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 in my organization and life – 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.”
“Occasionally, someone crosses your path and becomes a significant and outsized influence in your life. Lizzie is that someone for me. She gets to know the depth of you. She sees the core and essence of someone and works with that person — even when you don’t see it yourself. And then you become that person. Working with Lizzie is different than I’ve experienced with other coaches, advisors, or therapists because she’s really lived in the depths of similar experiences, so you get something different. It goes beyond words.”