Meet Liz …

Liz has had a long career in the for-profit, non-profit, and education sectors. Her consulting practice draws from an extensive career as a strategic and growth-oriented leader who prioritizes wholistic impact, considering customers, employees, and the community in which organizations live and thrive. Her work includes creating systems for driving and measuring impact as well as designing and implementing strategic programs to fulfill the organization’s mission in real ways. Her leadership in imagining, designing, and implementing new programs to serve important unmet needs has taken her on an impactful journey throughout her 30+ year career.

Liz is known as a keen problem solver, strategic thinker, and driver of results. Liz’s experience and success encompasses well-established businesses, start up organizations, organizations looking for growth, and organizations in crisis.

Not-for-profit organizations Liz has worked with include educational institutions, public television, a world-leading academic medical center, established local non-profits, as well as start up non-profits. Liz spent over 20 years in the for-profit sector serving in leadership roles with First Interstate Bancorp, Travelers Group, Citigroup, and Conseco Inc. as well as working as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading strategy consulting firms.

Liz’s work extends to hosting workshops and leading courses for not-for-profits leaders and aspiring leaders in areas of adaptive leadership, moral leadership, and emerging opportunities in CSR and ESG. Most recently she has worked with groups at the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance and in Marian University’s Organizational Leadershp doctoral program.

Ms. Coit served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Applied Ethics at Marian University where she created programs to strengthen ethics for students and business leaders. Prior to joining Marian University, she served in a variety of roles including leading the turnaround and growth of a local not-for-profit organization, and serving as the founding executive director of a financial education and research organization at Indiana State University, leading a team to create a very innovative financial literacy program for elementary-aged students. Before moving to the non-profit and academic sectors in 2005, Liz served for over 20 years as an executive in the financial services sector, including leadership roles at First Interstate Bancorp, Boston Consulting Group, Citigroup, and Conseco, Inc.

Liz holds an AB degree with honors in economics and psychology from Occidental College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  She is a Certified Digital Marketing Professional through the American Marketing Association and the Digital Marketing Institute. She earned a certificate in Strategic Leadership for Non-Profits from Harvard Business School and holds a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the IU School of Philanthropy. She serves on several not-for-profit boards, chairing board committees in development and strategic and program planning.