Integrative Leadership Strategies is a leadership consulting firm headquartered in Boston, and founded in 2007 by Liz Myers, MS, PCC. We help executives, leadership teams, and organizations build clarity, trust, and high performance through executive coaching, team development, and systems-level leadership consulting. We work with clients in Boston, Chicago, and across the U.S.

Integrative leadership is an approach to leading that unites the inner work of leadership, self-awareness, trust, communication, with the structural and analytical rigor needed to get real results. The word integrative refers to forming separate parts into a coordinated, functioning whole: your own development, your team's dynamics, and your organization's systems all working together.

Liz Myers founded Integrative Leadership Strategies in 2007. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University. Liz completed coach training at Coach U, the NeuroLeadership Institute, and ACT Leadership, and holds a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential through the International Coaching Federation. Her engineering background gives her a unique ability to frame leadership challenges through an analytical, systems-level lens.

We work with executive leaders, senior leadership teams, and organizations across industries — with a particular depth of experience in technical fields such as pharma/biotech, technology, engineering, architecture, construction, finance, and professional services. Our clients range from CEOs bringing in support for their entire leadership team, HR leaders seeking learning and development, senior leaders wanting to build a high performing team, to individual executives ready for one-on-one coaching.

Our team is based in Boston, MA and Chicago, IL, and we work with clients across the United States and globally. Many engagements are delivered in a combination of in-person and virtual formats, and we have a depth of experience working with and supporting fully remote and hybrid leadership teams.

Executive leadership coaching is a structured, one-on-one development process in which a leader works with a professional coach to deepen self-awareness, clarify goals, strengthen key skills, and build accountability for change. At Integrative Leadership Strategies, coaching is a co-creative partnership — sessions are dynamic, focused on what the leader brings, and always oriented toward meaningful action outside of the sessions.

Leaders who work with us through coaching typically develop a stronger relationship with themselves and their own leadership style, greater clarity on what drives their effectiveness and what gets in their way, and improved ability to communicate clearly, build trust, and navigate complexity. Many describe it as the first dedicated time they've had to reflect on their leadership rather than just execute it.

The leader first completes a “Focus Form” before each coaching session where they articulate recent successes, current challenges, and their intended outcome for the session. During the session, the coach and leader work together in a co-creative conversation to move goals forward. The leader commits to specific action steps before the session closes. This rhythm creates consistent progress and real accountability between coaching appointments.

Coaching engagements are typically structured as 6- or 12-month contracts, with sessions on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadence. This timeframe allows for genuine mindset shifts, behavior change, skill development, and integration. Shorter engagements can be arranged for specific, focused goals.

In addition to dedicated coaching sessions, our coaching engagements include unlimited text, phone, and email correspondence between sessions, as well as asynchronous document review and feedback, tools and worksheets for accountability and development, and resource recommendations as needed. We treat it as a full partnership, not just a series of appointments.

Coaching is often most valuable for leaders who are already effective and want to deepen their leadership wisdom — not just those who are struggling. Many of our clients are high performers who have hit a lull, taken on new scope, or recognized that the skills that got them here won't be enough to get them where they want to go. The investment in coaching tends to compound over time.

Leadership team development is a structured process of helping a group of leaders function as a true, high-performing team, not just a collection of individually capable people. It typically includes building trust and shared understanding, developing communication and accountability norms, aligning on goals and ways of working, and addressing the dynamics that slow teams down. In short, we teach teams how to work well together—giving them the tools, mindsets, and experiences needed for high performance that doesn’t rely on us being there long term. We’re successful when they’re able to take the reins.

Our team development programs use a 3-in-1 approach: team building, skill building, and business building, that happens simultaneously. Rather than extracting leaders for a generic skill-based workshop, we anchor development to your team's real work and challenges, so new skills and norms are immediately applicable and much more likely to stick. Programs typically run 3 to 12 months.

Engagements typically begin with individual conversations between the team coach and each team member to understand motivations, concerns, and team dynamics before any group work begins. From there, we design a customized program which includes a combination of facilitated working sessions, an offsite, ongoing team coaching, or skill-building workshops — built around your team's specific goals and current challenges.

Yes. We design and facilitate high-stakes team gatherings, offsites, retreats, and working sessions, with a rigorous outcomes-first approach. Before the event, we work with you to articulate clear results for your time together, design a curated agenda to achieve those results, and create a plan for integrating outcomes back into your work rhythms.

Yes. Our team includes trained mediators and brings a professional, structured approach to interpersonal conflict and team dysfunction. We work neutrally with all parties to understand each perspective, facilitate transparent dialogue, and find mutually workable resolutions — without taking sides and without sweeping the underlying issues under the rug.

The Enneagram is a powerful framework for understanding personality patterns, motivations, and blind spots — both individually and collectively. A Team Enneagram workshop uses a team report to surface the dynamics and limiting behaviors that may be holding your team back, opening a structured conversation about interpersonal dynamics, how to work together more effectively and make more conscientious choices.

Our organizational programs are designed to build leadership capacity across a broader group of leaders, not just a single team. These programs focus on developing shared language, skills, and culture around areas like trust, communication, problem-solving, and accountability, so that leadership development becomes embedded in how the organization works rather than a one-time event.

Silos usually form when senior leaders optimize for their own function's success rather than the enterprise's success — a systems problem, not a character flaw. Our approach helps leadership teams develop an enterprise view, establish shared commitments and working agreements, and build the cross-functional trust, win/win mindset and communication skills needed to collaborate effectively across functions.

Every engagement begins with listening during individual conversations, an assessment, and a diagnosis—before any program design. From there we work collaboratively with our client leader to design and deliver an approach tailored to the organization's specific goals, culture, and constraints. While we bring key tools and skills to each engagement, we are not off-the-shelf — every engagement takes a custom-designed approach.

Yes, this is a common context for our leadership and team development work. Mergers, re-organizations, new leadership, rapid growth, and post-pandemic resets all create moments when leadership teams need to re-establish how they work together. We help organizations use those moments as opportunities to build stronger, more deliberate leadership cultures rather than just survive the transition.

Three things set us apart: 

1. Liz's engineering background brings a structural, systems-level lens that most leadership development firms don't have. We've been doing this work since 2007, long before "leadership development" became a crowded industry.

2. We collaborate deeply with our clients—guiding them through design and implementation and engaging them every step of the way.

3. Lastly, we are experts at taking the “soft stuff” seriously to make it clear and give it structure, tangibility, and teeth.

If the primary challenge is your own development as a leader, coaching is a great starting point. If your team isn't working as well together as it should — trust issues, misalignment, communication breakdowns — team development is a fitting entry point. If the problem is broader than one team or involves how the organization develops its leaders overall, organizational development consulting is the likely first step. Many clients find they need a combination of services, and we're glad to discuss what makes sense for your situation in a consultation.

The first step is a consultation conversation — no pressure, no commitment. We want to hear about your situation and make sure we're the right fit before proposing a solution. You can book a consultation directly on our website. We look forward to meeting you!

Yes, and this is a particular strength. Our backgrounds in engineering, finance, and mathematics means we are fluent in the culture and challenges of technical organizations, where leaders are often analytically strong but haven't had formal development in the human side of leadership. Many of our clients come from pharma/biotech, technology, engineering, architecture and finance, and find that our direct, structured approach resonates with the way they think.