Elise Marie Birkhofer
Your capacity to lead depends on your capacity to love.
I help you step into your full power as your true self so that you can thrive in leadership and love.
Elise Marie Birkhofer is a leadership and love coach, and the Global Head of Women’s Community at Google. An expert on women’s leadership, she has led initiatives to empower the career growth and community-building of 60,000+ women across 52 countries over the last 12 years.
As a somatic coach and certified emotional intelligence facilitator, Elise guide clients through integrates embodiment practices to reconnect with the wisdom of their heart and body.
Her soul’s mission is to empower people step fully into their power and authentic selves, enabling them to create more fulfilling lives and relationships.
Elise graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Psychology and Communication. She offers personalized coaching packages and hosts revitalizing retreats.
Coaching
Elise’s coaching style is warm, empathetic, and uses powerful questions and envisioning to hold people’s hands and help you take the steps forward in your life that are calling you into what’s next. She leverages her background in psychology, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, and decade of leadership in the tech industry. She offers custom packages.
Elise has impacted tens of thousands of people with her keynote speeches, panels and workshop facilitation. She can speak to topics such as women’s empowerment, well-being, creating more diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces, emotional intelligence, mindfulness & compassion leadership, and career development.
Speaking
“Intuitive. Flexible. Responsive. Caring. Elise is deeply thoughtful with the way she approaches coaching. She is able to strike a unique balance of careful listening while also sharing her wealth of experience and ideas. She quickly pinpoints the crux of a situation or challenge and does not fail to leave me with helpful insights, ideas or questions to think through to continue moving forward in my journey.
From my time working with Elise, I was able to build the foundational skill-set, and honestly individual courage, to make the next jump in my career from her personal and professional coaching style. Some specific skills this included was navigating ambiguity, executive presence, program management, influencing, emotional intelligence, and equity-centered consciousness.”
— Christen Marx, Program Manager at Google
“My experience working with Elise was a rapturous homecoming to my pure inner essence, the depth of my gratitude, and the voice of my body. I felt so safe in her presence and with the quality of her space-holding that I was able to go to darker and lighter places, heal more deeply, and experience so much pure embodied presence, in a way I never have before. I’m so thankful to Elise because I have such a profound connection with my light, my heart, my womb, and my purpose now. Life-changing!”
— Ashley Carver, Embodiment Coach