Overview
Executive Coach | Master Certified Coach (ICF) | Strategic Thinking Partner
Dr Elizabeth Crosse is an executive coach who partners with senior leaders who are navigating complexity, transition, and the evolving demands of leadership. Her coaching enhances strategic clarity, personal confidence, and leadership presence, supporting clients in leading with purpose and achieving meaningful, sustainable impact.
Elizabeth works across a wide range of sectors including financial services, pharmaceuticals, law, government, higher education, and FMCG. Her clients have included BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Nestlé, Novartis, London Business School, UK Power Networks, the NHS, and departments such as the Home Office and Ministry of Justice. This breadth gives her a deep understanding of the systems, pressures and cultural dynamics influencing leadership at the highest levels.
Elizabeth brings a distinctive cognitive style shaped by her experience of navigating dyslexia and dyspraxia. These neurodiverse strengths—such as systemic thinking, pattern recognition, and intuitive insight—underpin her ability to help clients reframe challenges, gain fresh perspectives, and uncover new possibilities. Her approach combines warmth, challenge, and depth, creating a coaching space that fosters confidence and critical thinking.
She was one of the first accredited coach supervisors in the UK, holds the International Coaching Federation’s Master Certified Coach (MCC) credential and has a Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring, along with Master’s degrees in Coaching and Mentoring, Counselling Psychology, and Education. Her practice draws on academic research and real-world application, offering holistic, rigorous coaching attuned to each client’s context.
Her mentoring focuses on developing professional capability, and she has supported hundreds of coaches in successfully achieving the International Coaching Federation’s ACC, PCC and MCC credentials. As a supervisor, she helps coaches build the personal capacity to engage in different, more beneficial ways to address current and future challenges during times of uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant, rapid change.
At the core of her approach is the belief that leadership is personal. Her coaching offers a reflective and practical thinking partnership—designed to support leaders in making confident decisions, navigating uncertainty, and leading to reflect their values, strengths and aspirations.
Based in London, Elizabeth works across the UK and internationally.
Qualifications and professional memberships
- Doctorate in Coaching and Mentoring, Oxford Brookes University
- Masters in Coaching and Mentoring, Oxford Brookes University
- Masters in Education, University of Maryland
- Masters in Counselling Psychology, University of Indiana
- Advanced Diploma in Coaching Supervision, University of Middlesex
- MCC Master Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
- NLP Certified Coach and Master Practitioner
- BPS Level A and B Certification
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – Fellow
- Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, University of Cambridge
What her clients say
Elizabeth is truly an amazing mentor coach. From the beginning, she was invested in my success as mentee. With her knowledge, compassion and care she encouraged and motivated me to learn about my coaching strengths and through guidance and constructive feedback she helped me discover how I can be a better coach. Elizabeth has empowered me to develop my strengths, beliefs, and personal attributes as a coach. She was a dedicated partner on my path to the ICF MCC accreditation. I looked forward to every opportunity to work with her. Thank you for your partnership Elizabeth! – Dr. Maryam Bigdeli, MCC Transformation Consultant, Leadership Development Strategist,
I really enjoyed working with Elizabeth. I decided to go ahead with the ICF ACC process in order to develop and hone my skills after a few years working as a coach and a lack of confidence that what I was doing was “right.” By the end of our sessions , I felt more confident than ever in my coaching skills and had a clearer sense of where I wanted to go and who I wanted to be as a coach. From our first meeting, I found Elizabeth to be extremely warm, open and incredibly pragmatic when it came to the best way to approach things. Her versatile approach meant that every session was different according to what I wanted to cover, and she provided a platform for me to air my concerns, explore my purpose and evaluate my skills. The real value-add with working with Elizabeth was that it wasn’t just about the core competencies and ticking the boxes. It was about who I am as a coach, what I have to offer the coaching community and where I want to take that. – Sarah Creevey, ACC, Coach and Positive Psychology Consultant
