About Liz Jolley
Leadership coach · Founder of The School of Courage™ · Mother of three
Hi, I’m Liz.
I’m a leadership coach, facilitator, and former corporate leader with over two decades of experience leading high-performing teams in complex, high-pressure environments. I’m also a mom of three who knows firsthand what it feels like to try to be everything to everyone — and quietly lose yourself along the way.
Today, I help women with impactful careers lead with clarity, courage, and grounded confidence — without burning out, numbing out, or sacrificing the relationships that matter most.
How I got here
I didn’t come to this work because everything was falling apart on the outside. I came to it because, despite success, I felt exhausted, disconnected, and stuck in people-pleasing, performance, and pressure.
Through leadership development, emotional intelligence training, and life coaching, I learned how to slow down, question the thoughts driving my stress, and start making decisions from values instead of fear.
That shift didn’t just change how I worked — it changed how I lived, parented, loved, and led. And it’s what I now teach inside The School of Courage™.
Why I do this work
I believe leadership should never come at the cost of your health, your joy, or your sense of self.
My mission is to help women stop performing, start trusting themselves, and lead from the inside out — with courage, clarity, and compassion — at work and at home.
Who This Is For
This Work Is for Women Who Carry a Lot — Quietly
Women who look capable on the outside, hold responsibility with strength, and keep moving — even when something inside them is asking for more space, more ease, and more honesty.
This work is for the woman who is respected at work and relied on at home — yet feels quietly overwhelmed inside. The one who carries responsibility with competence, but lies awake replaying conversations, decisions, and to-do lists she can never quite finish.
She’s not falling apart. She’s holding it all together — and that’s exactly what’s exhausting her.
This work is for the mother who feels torn — wanting to lead boldly in her career while also longing to feel more present, patient, and joyful at home. The mom who loves deeply, yet carries guilt no matter where she is.
She wonders if something is wrong with her for wanting more — more ease, more alignment, more room to breathe — instead of just pushing harder.
This work is for the woman who experiences imposter syndrome even after years of success — who minimizes her achievements, fears being “found out,” or feels pressure to prove she belongs in rooms she’s already earned a seat in.
She’s tired of performing confidence instead of actually feeling it. Tired of being strong without feeling supported.
And this work is for the woman who feels lonely in her leadership — surrounded by people, yet craving a space where she doesn’t have to explain, impress, or hold it all together.
A space where she can exhale, tell the truth, and learn to lead herself with the same compassion she gives everyone else.
If you’re successful on paper but feel stretched thin, disconnected, or quietly asking, “Is this how it’s supposed to feel?” — this work was created with you in mind.
How I Can Help
Practical Tools · Deep Support · Real Change
I help women slow down enough to hear themselves again — not by doing less, but by learning how to stay calm, grounded, and self-led no matter what’s happening around them.
Through The School of Courage™ and my signature framework — the Conscious Living Equation™ — I guide women through focused, real-life work that transforms how they think, feel, communicate, and lead.
Inside the membership, women practice this work through monthly themes, live coaching, and a growing on-demand library organized around the Three Pillars of Courageous Living — Life & Emotional Well-Being, Motherhood & Family Life, and Leadership & Career. Support meets them exactly where life is happening.
This isn’t about fixing you or adding more to manage. It’s about undoing the habits of over-functioning, people-pleasing, and self-doubt — so you can lead with presence, confidence, and integrity without burning out.
The women I work with don’t just feel better. They think more clearly, communicate more honestly, set boundaries without guilt, and show up as the leaders, mothers, and humans they want their children to learn from.
If you’re ready to stop pushing through and start leading from a grounded, self-led place, there is a path forward.
You can begin inside The School of Courage™ , or start with the Overwhelm Quiz to understand what’s actually draining your energy.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
If something here resonated, trust that. There’s a supportive next step — whether you’re seeking clarity right now or a steadier way to grow over time.