Meet Dr. Liz Dubois
Origin Story
From about five years old I knew I wanted to do something powerful with my life. My parents would watch news of the war happening in the Middle East, and I would hide under the coffee table as I watched what looked like fireworks shoot across the black sky— fireworks my mom had explained were really bombs.
Hiding scared under that coffee table, I decided that when I grew up, I was going to do something that changed the world for the better.
For the first sixteen years of my career, I pursued that change by working in and then leading and eventually founding non-profit organizations. After seeing firsthand how much of the dollars raised went into overhead, rather than direct services, I sought out where I could best have that tangible impact I’d been dreaming of since those days under the coffee table.
Professional Bio
Elizabeth Degi DuBois (PhD, Conflict Resolution, MA, Sociology) is an executive coach and professional development coach who approaches her work using a trauma-informed lens. Through one-on-one coaching, group courses offered through her Boss Bitch University, organizational consulting, and public speaking, Dr. DuBois helps clients ditch people pleasing and overthink, get in touch with the version of themselves they were before societal BS programming got stuffed down their throats, & lead their organizations from a place of unapologetic power, deeply grounded in unconditional self-acceptance and joy.
Drawing from a range of Conflict Analysis and Resolution frameworks, somatic counseling tools, and Narrative Regression and Reframing techniques she has developed, Dr. Liz’s unique approach empowers clients to address trauma, codependency, and self-worth issues that are the underlying causes of many of the challenges high performers face in their personal and professional lives.
Over the course of her career, Dr. DuBois has served in executive leadership of two NGOs and has been a consultant to organizations including USAID on a range of issues related to educational equity, gender-based violence, and women’s empowerment.
Dr. Liz’s clients have:
→ Been recruited to a director level position at a multi-billion dollar tech startup
→ Gotten promoted to executive leadership
→ Scaled their businesses to seven figures
→ Landed partnerships and big fat juicy raises to go with them
→ Increased sales by more than 17X
→ Gotten featured in publications including Bustle and Forbes
→ Sold out programs within hours of their first session
→ Landed on the Amazon Top 10 Best-seller list
→ Increased their income by more than 40% in a month
→ Found pleasure and safety in sex for the first time in years
→ Fired shitty clients and landed dream ones at significantly higher price points
→ Felt safe asking for their needs to be met in their personal relationships
→ Drawn boundaries with toxic coworkers and bosses
→ Felt significantly more confident and happy
Dr. DuBois is a co-founder of the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict at The Carter School for Peacebuilding at George Mason University, where she served as the founding Executive Director from 2013-2015. As part of her work at the Center, Dr. DuBois has conducted her own research on gender-based violence in the U.S., Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Russian Federation. She was a US Department of Education Fellow at the Faculty of Sociology at National Research University— Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia in 2012.
Dr. DuBois’ work has been published in numerous trade outlets, as well as peer-reviewed publications including Advances in Gender Research, Empowerment in Practice: Strategies and Outcomes, and Women’s Political Leadership Monograph.
Dr. DuBois is a self-proclaimed beach bum, and loves boating, motorsports, and sunsets. She and her family live on Maryland’s eastern shore with their pet turtle, Turd.