I know what it's like when everything looks good on paper and something still feels off.
Liz Coffey
Founder
In 2020, after years of pushing down the discomfort I was feeling about the path I was on, I hired a coach.
I had degrees from Notre Dame and Northwestern, a high-flying career I was proud of, people I loved and a life that looked pretty good from the outside. But I was questioning the impact I wanted to make in the world and the amount of headspace I let my corporate job take up.
I also started taking occasional solo trips — not big bucket-list vacations, but time in different places where I wasn't anyone's colleague, partner or friend. Getting outside my patterns helped me see them more clearly.
After 15+ years advising C-suite leaders at companies including McDonald's, Tyson Foods and Kellogg, I left corporate, trained as a coach and launched On Leave Experiences on Leap Day of 2024, combining coaching with experiences that interrupt our usual patterns.
Since then, working with women wrestling with their own versions of the questions I was asking has helped me hone the On Leave Method: Locate, Interrupt, Imagine, Choose, Go. Today, it's at the core of my work with clients through 1:1 coaching, On Leave Circles and speaking engagements.
If any of this sounds familiar, if your life looks good and something still feels off...
...you're not alone, and you're certainly not broken.
It's not wrong to be accomplished and still feel a pull for more.
It's hard to see your own life clearly from inside it.
Insight arrives on a walk in a new-to-you neighborhood, a visit to a small museum, a conversation with a stranger.
