I’m Elizabeth Nash,
a Swiss-trained, Canadian born Strategic Life Coach and founder of Coach for Equality.

I use coaching as a tool to strengthen and restore confidence, build motivation, and foster empowerment in order to explore professional and personal opportunities.

My Approach

My coaching approach is designed to help you bring clarity to a situation, uncover your strengths and resources, and help you overcome obstacles and deal with uncertainty so that you are empowered to take action.

As a coach, I help you build autonomous self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth as you experience life and career transitions. I work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and identities and support them to set and achieve goals for a more fulfilling and balanced life, at home, at work, and abroad.

Coaching can:

  • Build autonomous self-confidence

  • Identify new opportunities and motivation

  • Strengthen leadership and enhance relationships

  • Foster belonging in new environments

  • Support employment changes, promotions, new jobs, or career transitions

  • Improve wellness and wellbeing

The Coach for Equality Experience

With consistent coaching support you can explore your purpose and potential, align these with your choices, while strengthening your resilience to change and challenges.

Your coaching sessions can be scheduled:

in person or online, and across all time zones.

As your Coach,
my goal is: 

to help you raise self- awareness, make strategic decisions & implement actions.

My intention during our sessions is:

to create a safe, positive, and collaborative space to explore all possibilities.

Meet Elizabeth

Who I work with:

  • Women of all ages, life stages, backgrounds, and identities;

  • United Nations and NGO communities on team building, innovation, and change;

  • Humanitarian officers on strength and resilience;

  • Professors, PhD, and Masters students on thriving in academia;

  • Young women on leadership and confidence;

  • Expats and partners overseas on creating a new life in a new place;

  • Soon-to-be Retirees on wholistic life planning;

  • And you, in all your diversity…

  • "I really enjoyed my coaching experience with Elizabeth. She is positive, engaged, and creative in her approach. Elizabeth made me feel heard and understood, while challenging my held assumptions ...I wholeheartedly recommend Elizabeth as a coach."

    Humanitarian Officer, Geneva

  • "Elizabeth has helped me uncover my true potential through her passion in coaching. She has equipped me with skills and tools I can use for the rest of my life to plan for my future and give me direction."

    Young Woman Leader, South Africa

  • “Coaching helped me realize that the big professional aspirations I have for myself are actually tangible, I just had to find the right tools to unlock them.”

    Young Professional, Switzerland

Coaching in the Community

Coach for Equality specializes in empowerment and leadership work to expand opportunities for women - of all ages, life stages, backgrounds, and identities - and overcome gendered obstacles. My coaching also targets the international development community, offering timely support to adapt and develop in new and challenging surroundings. As an accredited Coach, my experience spans involvement in the community, working in partnership with local and global organizations.

Coaching with a Local Focus

Municipality of Vernier: Contributed to a pilot project to include coaching and mentoring in Swiss employment support services.

YIELD Youth Leadership Program: Supporting the YIELD program through coaching young participants.

ZOÏ environment network: Coached young staff members to strengthen their professional voice, presence, and progress.

Coaching with a Global Focus

World YWCA: Supporting the Young Women’s Leadership Program through coaching the annual cohort of participants.

United World Coaches: Providing coaching support to International Committee of the Red Cross staff posted around the world. 

Humanitarian Coaching Network: Providing coaching for United Nations officers in post.

Are you an NGO or International Organization seeking coaching services for your team?

I work within organizations, coaching staff members, managers, and interns to build confidence, find purpose, identify opportunities for growth, and improve work performance.

My expertise related to the
UN Sustainable Development Goals

Through coaching I contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. As a Coach, I dedicate my practice to supporting all women to overcome obstacles  and identify their strengths, so they can realize their potential. To learn more about my commitment to SDG 5, see my article below.

How Coaching can have a Global Impact: SDG 5

Published on May 4, 2022

Written in collaboration with Bénédicte Brochu

At Coach for Equality, coaching is about people’s potential; finding it and fostering it, so that we become better individuals, colleagues, team members, bosses, family members, friends, and partners. 

Take the first step

In order to better understand your coaching needs, we start with a free 30 minute chat (online or in person). I will answer any questions about coaching and explain my process, fees, and how we coordinate sessions.

Coaching Individuals

After our initial conversation, we will create a customised package that arranges sessions to set, explore, and achieve your goals, hold you accountable, and support you to stay motivated.

Coaching Organizations

After our initial conversation, I will meet with management and interested staff members to identify a shared coaching objective that will guide sessions while respecting confidentiality.