Elizabeth Harris

Liz Harris is an interview performance coach, learning and development specialist, and founder of Alchemy Training, helping mid-to-senior level professionals turn high-stakes career opportunities into confident, credible performances.

Her approach grew from an unexpected insight that changed the direction of her work: every interview is a presentation, and every presentation is an interview. After years of delivering leadership, influencing and presentation skills workshops around the world, Liz was asked to help two young women who were struggling to convert applications into job offers. Both went on to secure strong roles, and Liz realised she could use decades of presentation expertise to solve one of the most stressful and consequential moments in a person’s career.

Since then, she has coached hundreds of candidates through simulated interviews, competency-based questions, difficult conversations, presentations and the psychological pressure that comes with being judged in a competitive hiring process. Her strength lies in spotting what an interviewer is likely to probe, identifying where a candidate’s story is unclear, and helping them reshape strong experience into answers that land with clarity and confidence.

Liz is particularly passionate about helping people prepare before opportunity arrives. Rather than waiting until an interview is days away and cramming under pressure, she encourages professionals to become “interview ready” long before they need to be, with their career story, achievements and strongest examples already at their fingertips. Her philosophy is simple: don’t get ready, be ready.

That mindset matters in a job market where one opportunity may carry enormous financial and emotional weight. Liz helps clients treat an interview with the same seriousness they would give any other high-value presentation, while also building the resilience to recover from rejection, navigate lengthy hiring processes and keep bringing their best self to the next opportunity.

Alongside her one-to-one coaching, Liz has developed a self-paced course, an Interview Readiness assessment and her Inside the Interview Room newsletter. She is also about to launch a book based on the five-part process she has developed through years of real interview coaching, covering everything from CV preparation and competency questions to mindset, resilience and interview presentations.

Warm, practical and deeply experienced, Liz brings the perspective of someone who has spent years on both sides of professional communication. Her conversations go beyond stock interview tips to explore why good candidates underperform, how small changes in language can transform an answer, and why the best time to prepare for your next career opportunity is before you know it exists.