Elizabeth Fish

Coach

Elizabeth Fish is a highly experienced Executive Coach and trusted senior advisor supporting CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior leaders to navigate complexity, lead change and deliver sustained performance. She is widely respected for her confidence, clarity, and ability to build trust with executives, boards and senior stakeholders. With over 20 years’ experience in leadership development, executive coaching and career transition, Elizabeth has partnered with more than 250 senior leaders across the private and public sectors, including at Ministerial level, throughout APAC. Her work focuses on guiding leaders through major transitions, mergers, and organisational change – translating leadership capability into measurable commercial outcomes. Elizabeth is known for providing a highly confidential, trusted sounding board for leaders. Her coaching is pragmatic, outcomes focused, shaped by the real demands of executive leadership, supporting leaders to make clearer decisions, strengthen influence with boards and stakeholders, and step into their roles with confidence and authority. She brings deep commercial and leadership expertise from senior management and consulting roles within multinational environments. Her executive coaching spans multiple sectors ranging from publicly listed companies to fintech start-ups. Elizabeth adopts a consultative and collaborative coaching approach, strengthening leadership capability, decision-making and resilience to deliver practical, sustainable impact.

Coaching Experience

  • Experience executive coaching C-suite, executive leaders & future leaders across APAC
  • Industry experience includes banking & finance, insurance, professional services, education, NSW, and Federal government, pharmaceutical, health and biotech
  • Dept Defence – Coaching included General and NATO Commander to translate military leadership excellence into commercial success, supporting a seamless transition into a CEO role
  • Executive Coaching Ministerial level in NSW Government
  • Expertise coaching “Women in Leadership“ programs
  • Partnering with NGO’s, marginalised & disadvantaged community organisations.

Expertise / Specialisation

  • Leading through transformation & change
  • Evolving leadership capability
  • Executive & role transitions
  • Board level influence & stakeholder leadership
  • Confidential executive support – complex or sensitive challenges
  • Leadership effectiveness & impact
  • Personal brand and executive presence

Business Experience

  • Executive Director EFC
  • ICEO Head ANZ – LHH
  • Director/Associate Director -Ernst & Young – Proteus
  • Managing Consultant LHH

Education / Business Coaching

  • University of Sydney Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
    Psychology/Behavioural Sciences
  • Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, MVPI) 2025
  • Agentic AI Ethics & Leadership – Microsoft
    2025
  • Executive Coaching & Leadership Development Accreditation – LHH Global
  • Organisational Change – Human Synergistics
    (LSI, OCI)
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • Change Management Principles & Methodology – E&Y USA