
Lizzie Azzolino is an innovator, intuitive visionary and transformative connector aligning people, purpose and unrealized potential.
✺ We are all here for a reason. I’m accelerating a future where everyone knows who they are, is who they are and makes their fullest contribution to our world.
Who I am at work is who I am in life — evolving by the day.
Hi, I’m Lizzie Azzolino — founder of Work with Lizzie, a coaching, recruiting and growth and leadership alignment advisory practice created to help leaders and entrepreneurs in inflection points start meaningful new chapters of contribution and success.
I’ve worked alongside thousands of leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs, helping them answer pivotal questions about their purpose, path, past and future. Together, we clarify their vision, realign their path and create the new connections and relationships needed to accelerate their lasting success.
In 2017, while working in brand and innovation strategy, a family illness and my own experience with cancer brought me to the same questions I now help others answer. These challenges left me with incredible empathy, perspective and commitment to guide others through inflection points and uncharted territory to create meaningful change.
The name Work with Lizzie represents more than partnership; it’s a mission to create a new paradigm for work and life, one that honors our uniqueness and integrates the whole of who we really came here to be. Everything I do and create embodies who I am and all that I’ve learned — personally, professionally and spiritually.
Guided by what’s true, not what’s familiar, I help leaders and teams work from the inside out to align with and accelerate their most purposeful impact.
As an advisor, board member and investor, I support startups, nonprofits and new ventures focused on transforming women’s health, mental health and the future of work. I’m the proud recipient of The White House President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for my continued service to expand career opportunities for women.
I’m also the host of the Now at Work podcast, where I explore life’s biggest questions with leaders and entrepreneurs who have redefined success, purpose and setbacks to create newly aligned paths in their careers and lives.
Today, based in Los Angeles with my dog Barkley, I work globally with a diverse and inspiring community of leaders and companies, including Airbnb, Allbirds, Autodesk, Dyson, LinkedIn, LTSE, Modern Fertility and a growing number of first-time entrepreneurs and coaches creating their life’s work.
I approach every partnership with curiosity, open arms, and an open heart. As I support people in bravely stepping into the lives and careers they’re uniquely here to lead, they motivate and inspire me to do the same — and we’re just getting started.
Only you have the power to choose the meaning you make of your past and present → and determine what’s possible for your future.
Advisory roles
I serve on the boards of a variety of startups, community ecosystems and nonprofits – supporting teams and people with missions I care deeply about.
The Moods: seed-stage functional wellness company helping women embrace “the middle” of life, perimenopause/menopause and all that comes with it
Brewbird: growth-stage startup building a sustainable future in coffee
Summit: ecosystem connecting global leaders and change-makers, best known for Summit at Sea
Siberia: independent strategy, design and engineering studio
HAUM: a space for community – offering diverse practices to help people come home to who they truly are
Women in Innovation: non-profit advancing diverse women as change-makers and leading voices in innovation. After co-founding the San Francisco chapter, I previously served in a range of capacities including Global Leadership Development Lead, where I created and facilitated WIN Relay – the first cohort-based leadership development program for women working across the innovation industry.
Certifications
& training
While my most valuable lessons come from lived experience, I love expanding my toolbox – from ancient wisdom modalities and spirituality to cutting-edge knowledge and science – connecting the dots, and working at the edge of what is conventional.
Master Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation, the leading global credentialing body for coaching and ethics in coaching
Certified Integral Coach, Certified Integral Team Coach and Adjunct Faculty with New Ventures West, one of the leading global coaching schools focused on whole-person development
Coaching Constellations, a method of working – not only with a person or organization – but also with the richness of all of the historic and present-day systems they come from
Harvard’s Institute of Coaching Fellow, focused on ensuring the scientific integrity of coaching
Advanced Coaching Certification from Aletheia, a methodology that distinguishes self-improvement from self-unfoldment and offers support for unfolding more of your innate resourcefulness, creativity and collective genius
Intensive Progressive study with Dr. Joe Dispenza, known for his research and work to allow the body’s innate intelligence to cure “incurable” disease and create other breakthrough miracles, integrating epigenetics, neuroscience, quantum physics and language to change reality and your destiny
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Integrative Enneagram Certification from iEQ9, a widely accepted personality model that offers deep insight into our core driving motivations, opening up exciting possibilities in the understanding of human behavior and our unique paths of growth
Akashic Records Guide, often referred to as the “The Book of Life,” where every thought, action and idea – past, present and future – is stored as energy, recording what has happened, is happening and will happen. This practice believes our soul's have a record, and when accessed can provide the most helpful and hopeful information – on any topic or question – to guide your journey in life.
Coaching Circles Facilitator, a method to facilitate peer coaching in groups – creating both belonging and collaborative solutions
Reiki Practitioner, an energy healing technique that works with Ki – “life force energy”
Masterful Conversations, a set of tools to tap into creativity, motivation and resourcefulness and strengthen connections and drive impact through conversation
Leadership Embodiment Levels I & II, designed to unite the body and mind for leadership effectiveness
I've also taken a range of intensive classes - with Simone Grace Seol (hypnotist turned turned transformational writing coach), John Wineland (a leading expert on embodied leadership, spiritual intimacy and energy), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Academy of Intuition Medicine and in astrology.
Recently, I've been studying and practicing Gene Keys and feel a deep connection to its creator Richard Rudd - a fellow innovator, storyteller and mystic. I am always working with my teacher Kerstin of 5 years – who tells me the hard things I need to hear with such precision and compassion. Patience and the real meaning of home and love are the greatest lessons I've learned with her.
Helping you see the truth that a path far greater than what you could ever plan for your future is already here in the present. ✺
Stories about our work together