Elise Marie Birkhofer
COME HOME TO YOURSELF.
To your heart. Your body. Your truth.
Coaching and embodied experiences to help you deepen self-trust, navigate life’s transitions, and live with greater love, aliveness, and freedom.
Hi, I’m Elise.
I’m a coach, facilitator, embodiment guide, dancer, and former global leader at Google.
For most of my life, I’ve been fascinated by what helps us heal, grow, connect, and become more fully ourselves.
My path has taken me from studying psychology at Stanford to 13 years at Google, where I ultimately led a global community of more than 60,000 people across 52 countries — and through experiences of grief, illness, heartbreak, spiritual awakening, and healing that transformed how I understand what it means to be human.
Today, I bring together psychology, leadership, emotional intelligence, embodiment, spirituality, and lived experience to help people reconnect with themselves and create lives that feel deeply true to who they are.
Coaching
There is more of you waiting to be lived.
Sometimes we arrive at a moment when the way we've been living no longer fits.
A relationship ends. A career changes. Something cracks us open. Or perhaps nothing is wrong — you simply know there is more aliveness, truth, love, or purpose available to you.
Coaching is a space to listen more deeply.
Together, we work with the mind, heart, and body to uncover what is true, rebuild self-trust, move through what is holding you back, and create a life that feels more fully your own.
Conversations that move people.
For more than a decade, I’ve spoken and facilitated experiences for leaders and communities around the world.
My work explores the human dimensions of how we live and lead — from emotional intelligence and embodied leadership to resilience, belonging, self-trust, love, relationships and the power of authentic connection.
I create experiences that are grounded, participatory, and deeply human — designed not simply to inspire people in the moment, but to shift how they relate to themselves and one another.
Speaking & Facilitation
“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, Google Program Manager
“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, Embodiment Coach
Kind Words
Heal your heart. Liberate love.
Lead with the body.
The way we relate to ourselves shapes the way we love, lead, create, and move through the world.
My work is an invitation to listen inward, trust yourself more deeply, and become more available for the life that wants to move through you.