Coaching Experience: Elise Packard is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Associate Certified Coach (ACC). She was also awarded a Leadership and Performance Coaching Certification Level One by Brown University’s School of Professional Studies and ACT. Earners of the ACC certification have demonstrated, through a comprehensive evaluation process, that they can confidently and competently apply the ICF core coaching skills to their individual clients. Elise has coached Senior Executives and managers across multiple Federal agencies as well as in non-profits and universities. She has also coached individuals looking at career change and personal growth.

Executive Experience at the agency level: Elise served as Deputy General Counsel for Operations at the Environmental Protection Agency from 2018-2025, serving as the Office of General Counsel’s Senior Resource Officer and managing the budget of $65 million, human resources functions, contracting and property for 250 employees. In 2025, she was awarded a Distinguished Career Service Award by the EPA Administrator. In 2022 she was awarded a Meritorious Presidential Rank Award from President Biden for sustained accomplishment in the Senior Executive Service. EPA’s National FOIA Office reported to her as did the EPA’s External Civil Rights Office (from 2017-2023). She served on EPA’s Executive Management Committee, which coordinated policy on EPA-wide issues. Government-wide she served on the Executive Committee of the General Counsel Exchange, a group of senior career Federal government attorney managers who meet to discuss common leadership topics.

Legal Experience: From 2017-2025 She oversaw the provision of operational legal advice to EPA’s management, covering legal issues from employment and information law to appropriations, grants, contracts, tribal issues, and civil rights. She previously served as Associate General Counsel for Civil Rights and Finance at EPA where she managed agency legal advice on Civil Rights, Procurement, Financial Assistance, Appropriations, Property and Claims. In that capacity, she founded and co-chaired an interagency appropriations group with the Deputy General Counsel of OMB that still meets on a regular basis. Prior to this, as Chief of the General Law Division at the Department of Commerce for nine years, she managed the Commerce Department’s legal advice in the areas of Freedom of Information Act, appropriations, FACA, property, and intellectual property, amongst others.

Training Experience: Over the course of her legal career Elise has provided training to groups from 10-500 on issues including Appropriations Law, FOIA, the Anti-lobbying Act, and Government laws for new political appointees. She also provided Rule of Law training for the Egyptian government over a three-year span. In the non-profit sphere she has provided trainings and facilitations on Board governance, strategic planning and project development.

She clerked for then Chief Judge Judith Rogers of the D.C. Court of Appeals from 1992-1993. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and received her J.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center.