Leadership Development Coaching
Empowering leaders to create healthier, more productive teams.
Great leadership isn’t just about managing people… it’s about understanding them.
Every team is made up of individuals with different strengths, working styles, and nervous systems. And when leaders know how to support those differences, especially neurodiverse brains, they unlock better communication, more trust, and stronger results.
Here’s the thing: high performance doesn’t come from pressure.
It comes from people feeling well… physically, mentally, and emotionally. As a certified master health coach and mental health coach with a background in leadership, team development, and lived experience of neurodiversity, I help leaders create environments where wellbeing and mental fitness are part of the culture, not just an EAP tick-box.
When you support your team’s bodies, minds, and ways of working, you get people who actually want to show up and do their best.
That’s where Leadership Development Coaching comes in.
Leadership that works for real people
This isn’t cookie-cutter corporate training. It’s grounded in lived experience, practical workplace know-how, and evidence and science-based strategies that work… especially in high-stress or neurodiverse environments.
Whether you're managing a start-up, a government team, or a creative department full of brilliant-but-overwhelmed thinkers, I offer practical, people-first coaching and workshops to help you lead with confidence, adaptability, and empathy.
Through coaching or tailored workshops, I help leaders:
✔ Understand and support diverse working styles – From ADHD to sensory sensitivities, recognising how your team works helps unlock collaboration and avoid burnout.
✔ Improve emotional intelligence and resilience – Learn how movement, sleep, mindset, connection, and even nutrition affect workplace performance. You can’t lead effectively when your team is running on empty.
✔ Strengthen leadership presence – Build a grounded, confident style that earns trust, even in tough conversations.
✔ Create psychologically safe spaces – Build trust, reduce stress, and foster innovation by supporting the whole person—not just the job title.
What I bring to the table
I’ve spent time in the trenches with facilitating leadership training, team development, stress proofing, and conflict management. I’ve led frontline teams, coached managers, and trained staff in customer service, systems, and health and safety across both private and government sectors.
Before returning to coaching, facilitation, and the health and wellness industry, I ran a boutique business as a private chef, cooking for high-profile clients with complex needs, and led teams in fast-paced creative environments and in events management, including experience on photoshoots and film sets. I’m also trained in Chakra Therapy and somatic practices, which helps me bring an added depth to leadership wellbeing work, especially around nervous system regulation and burnout prevention.
With multiple Outward Bound experiences under my belt and 20+ years in leadership, communication, and project management, I bring practical tools, deep empathy, and a no-fluff approach to helping leaders show up fully, and help others do the same.
What others say:
"Elizabeth has a calm yet powerful presence. She helped me see how to lead my team in a way that worked with their strengths rather than against their stress. She's warm, grounded, and gets what it’s really like in the day-to-day pressure of managing people."
Team Leader, Public Sector
"Her approach is thoughtful, inclusive, and deeply practical. I walked away with clarity, confidence, and tools I could actually use the next day. And I’ve never seen my team so engaged!"
Corporate Webinar Participant
"She just gets people. I’ve worked with a lot of leadership coaches, but Elizabeth’s ability to connect real workplace challenges with wellbeing, energy, and mindset? That’s something else."
HR Manager, Private Sector
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Sophia Patel
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Benjamin Ramirez
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Corporate & Workplace Trainings
Choose from impactful, evidence-based workshops that support both performance and wellbeing, designed for workplaces that value people and results.
Corporate Sessions
Fuel Your Mind – Nutrition and Movement for Mental Health
Steady in the Storm – Resilience Training
Stress, Cravings & Emotional Eating – What Your Body is Really Telling You
Understanding ADHD in the Workplace – Practical ways to support focus, communication, and executive functioning in diverse teams
Neurodiversity & Leadership – Creating inclusive spaces that harness neurodiverse strengths
Mental Fitness at Work – Simple, science-backed tools for self-regulation, mindset, and emotional agility
Holistic & Wellbeing Sessions
Body IS MIND – A body-based approach to food, self, and emotional eating
MIND Matters – What are you really hungry for? Exploring emotional eating and unmet needs
Nourish – A non-diet, self-compassionate approach to eating and weight concerns
Mindful Eating for Mindful Living
Moving Through the Chakras
Balancing Chakras through Movement and Food
Customised versions available for leadership retreats, well-being days, or staff development weeks.
Let’s work together.
If you want to lead with more ease, empathy, and emotional intelligence and create a workplace where wellbeing and diversity aren’t just buzzwords but daily practice, I’d love to work with you.
Based in Wellington, NZ. Available worldwide and online.
