About Me
Elizabeth Power
Every strong leader needs strong support to really shine, and a coach can help with that. As you develop your leadership skills, an experienced coach can support you in playing to your strengths, identifying your weaknesses and countering them, getting unstuck, and challenging the limiting beliefs that prevent you from leading well.
Building trust with your team, grounding your leadership in your own values, and having the courage to be authentic - I learned first-hand how important these things can be to making a strong leader. And I’m passionate about supporting others as they figure out their own leadership vision.
You deserve to feel confident in your leadership, and your team deserves a leader who is authentic, clear, and flexible. I love working together to help bring these things to life.
Leadership
I spent 26 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, representing my country overseas for most of that time. My diplomatic career honed my ability to listen deeply, make strong connections, recognize patterns, and develop action plans. After senior roles leading strategic and operational teams in North and South America, Australia, and Africa, I now bring these skills to leadership training and executive coaching. My decades of practical leadership experience inform my work with clients across the globe in the public and private sectors, helping them to identify solutions to the challenges they’re facing.
I formally became a coach for the U.S. Department of State in 2023, but my journey to leadership coaching began years earlier, as a hands-on leader of large teams and a mentor to many colleagues. I took my practical experience to my role as Director of 1CA, the Department of State’s flagship leadership and management development program serving 12,000 consular professionals around the world. I developed and delivered training on leadership and management tools and techniques, and I facilitated dozens of workshops for teams seeking to improve their processes and communication, while mentoring leaders one-on-one. My interest in how to be a good leader also led me to create The Leading Edge, the State Department’s most successful leadership blog, which I authored for 10 years.