We can do good work, together.

Coaching and consulting that helps empower professionals to succeed by aligning your authentic leadership style and strengths to drive meaningful results with real world impacts, and overcome professional challenges.

Are you:

  • An executive striving to create a more supportive workplace?

  • A young professional navigating a demanding new role?

  • A mid-career expert stepping into leadership?

  • A leadership team navigating a large organization shift?

Together, we will build the clarity, confidence, and strategy you need to lead and succeed, while creating or contributing to an environment where teams and people thrive.

Good Work Endeavors helps you foster more human-centered workplaces and drive meaningful results.  

Through personalized coaching and practical consulting, you will:

  • Identify and grow your authentic leadership strengths

  • Foster supportive and high-performing team cultures

  • Navigate change, conflict, and complexity with clarity and confidence

  • Embrace failure as fuel for learning and continuous improvement

Together, we help you do better, not just for yourself, but for the people you lead.

Services

  • Personalized coaching for professionals at every stage of your journey.

    Available as single strategy sessions or ongoing coaching packages (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly). Fully virtual.

  • Interactive learning experiences that strengthen leadership and team dynamics

    Online sessions coming soon. In person options are customizable to your organization’s needs.

  • Strategic guidance for organizations navigating major shifts or entering the humanitarian space

    Please contact me to discuss short-term advisory projects, strategic planning facilitation, or long-term partnerships.

About me

Elizabeth Bellardo is the founder of Good Work Endeavors, bringing over 20 years of senior leadership experience across the nonprofit and public sectors, with a career defined by leading through crises, building high-performing teams, and advancing humanitarian impact on a global scale.

From crisis zones in Sudan, Haiti, Myanmar, and Iraq to the decision rooms of Washington, DC, Elizabeth has led with integrity, clarity, and a deep belief that effective leadership must be both strategic and human-centered. Most recently, she served on the senior leadership team of the U.S. Government’s Humanitarian Bureau at USAID, where she oversaw a team of over 150 staff and managed a budget that peaked at over $200 million. Elizabeth played a key role in shaping U.S. humanitarian policy and partnership strategy, guiding the Bureau through periods of rapid expansion, deep budget cuts, and ultimately the complex dissolution of the agency, all while keeping teams aligned, mission-focused and making it a good place to work.

A seasoned crisis manager, Elizabeth has led emergency response teams and advised the White House, National Security Council, State Department, Department of Defense, and countless other U.S. agencies. She has represented the U.S. on international advisory boards of UN Agencies and non-profit organizations, and worked with global partners to advocate for the most vulnerable and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of principled humanitarian response.

Prior to government service, Elizabeth advanced policy, program, and technical efforts at InterAction, a nonprofit membership organization, where she worked to strengthen safeguarding practices, humanitarian response coordination, and pandemic preparedness across international NGOs. Her work has included training and consulting across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia, helping organizations evolve their leadership, culture, and accountability systems.

At Good Work Endeavors, Elizabeth now channels this global, high-stakes experience into coaching and consulting that empowers leaders to meet challenges with authenticity, build inclusive and resilient teams, and drive meaningful results, even in the most complex environments.

  • Working with Elizabeth as my coach has been transformative. Through our sessions, I’ve been able to clearly articulate my leadership style and uncover specific areas for meaningful growth. Her guidance has been instrumental in helping me develop a more authentic and systemic approach to leadership. I highly recommend Elizabeth to anyone committed to evolving as a conscious and impactful leader.

  • Elizabeth is the mentor everyone hopes to have: strategic, grounded, generous with her time, and always insightful. Her leadership and coaching helped me navigate complex decisions with confidence and purpose. She is the kind of leader who brings out the best in you. Her coaching is grounded in deep experience, practical wisdom, and genuine care. No matter the challenge, I always left our conversations with clarity, confidence, and a way forward.

  • Leadership coaching is one of Elizabeth’s natural strengths, and anyone who works with her will benefit from her insight, integrity, and ability to bring out the best in others. For over a decade I have worked closely with her, including several years as my direct supervisor. Her leadership is defined by transparency, decisiveness, and a genuine commitment to team growth and development. She creates a culture of openness and trust, consistently encouraging staff to take on stretch assignments while providing mentorship and unwavering support. Elizabeth doesn’t shy away from hard conversations or differing viewpoints. Instead, she invites them as essential to better decision-making.

  • Elizabeth has taught me what it means to be an impactful, effective, and people-centered leader. She is clear-eyed, humble, and deeply committed to the people she leads. Her openness to feedback, commitment to inclusion, and ability to create calm in moments of crisis have had a lasting impact on my leadership and confidence. Whether navigating organizational upheaval or high-stakes humanitarian responses, she models resilience, thoughtful decision-making, and a steady focus on what matters most. Working with her transformed not only how I lead, but how I show up for my team. I’m grateful to have learned from her and will continue to carry her guidance with me throughout my career.

  • I have had the privilege of working with Elizabeth for several years and hold the highest respect for her leadership, supervisory, and interpersonal skills. She exemplifies integrity, wisdom, and compassion, while offering practical guidance, thoughtful decision-making, and skillful communication. Under her leadership, I felt confident navigating complex workplace dynamics, knowing she truly cared about both results and the growth and individuality of each team member.

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