Liz Wolfe 16MBA/MPH steps into the presidency as Executive Women of Goizueta welcomes its 2026–2027 board.
Executive Women of Goizueta’s 2026-2027 President Elizabeth “Liz” Wolfe 16MBA/MPH has always been interested in how nutrition impacts overall health. That interest led her to major in dietetics as an undergraduate at Indiana University.
As a clinical dietitian at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Wolfe encountered inefficiencies in healthcare delivery and spearheaded several pilot projects to address them. After the pilots proved successful, the new processes were implemented across the health system.
It was the success of those projects that inspired Wolfe to pursue her MBA and MPH from Emory. “I recognized I could have a bigger impact if I was working behind the scenes versus doing one-on-one patient care,” says Wolfe, Vice President of Operations for Professional & Advisory Solutions at McKesson, a Fortune 10 healthcare company.
“There’s no way I could have gone from being a clinical dietitian, taking care of patients in a hospital, to being a vice president in a Fortune 10 company without earning my MBA,” says Wolfe.
Optimism Rooted in Experience
“It was a great life—very loving, but it wasn’t easy,” Wolfe says of her upbringing. “The life I have now is very different.”
Wolfe was raised by a single mother in northwest Indiana. Her mom worked as a waitress. If Wolfe or her brother got sick, her mom stayed home, which meant she didn’t get paid. “My mom had a hard go,” Wolfe explains.
But no matter what, she told her kids, “Things will work out,” says Wolfe. As a child, the mantra frustrated her. “Typically, you’ve got to do something to make it work out,” she says. As an adult, however, Wolfe is grateful for her mother’s outlook. “She gave me that optimism—just persevere. It’ll be okay,” Wolfe says.
Her mother didn’t graduate from high school (though she later earned her GED), so when Wolfe was applying to college, she figured out the process on her own. Wolfe made her way to Indiana University and graduated with distinction.
Expanding What’s Possible
Wolfe considers her time at Emory and Goizueta transformational. Before arriving, she’d never taken a finance or accounting class—or any core business class for that matter. “I grew so much as a person just in terms of what I felt like I was capable of,” Wolfe explains. “It really helped me feel like I could speak the clinical side of healthcare, the public side of healthcare. And now I can also speak to the business side of healthcare and other industries.”
Pursuing her MBA also changed the way she framed and solved problems. “That was very beneficial to me,” Wolfe says. “The types of roles that I’ve been in since earning my MBA have involved financial work, business case projections, and other things that I honestly wouldn’t have known how to do had I not specifically built those kinds of skills.”
Wolfe also made lifelong connections, including meeting her now husband, Vijay Raju 16MBA, during her first semester at Goizueta. “I owe a lot to Emory, and I want to be able to give back.”
Writing Executive Women of Goizueta’s Next Chapter
One of the ways Wolfe is giving back is her work with Executive Women of Goizueta (EWG). She’s been on the organization’s board since 2023 and is currently serving as its 2026-2027 president. She’s brought an operator’s mindset to the role, mapping out a five-year strategic plan for the organization.
Her priority this year is making Executive Women of Goizueta’s signature benefit—networking with other women connected to Goizueta—more intentional. “That’s a big thing for this year, specifically,” she says. “To facilitate that engagement.” Looking further out, the board is also laying groundwork for the organization’s 25th anniversary in 2028, with plans to re-engage all alumnae.
Currently, the organization’s two scholarships are both merit-based; Wolfe and the board are working to convert one of those awards to a need-based scholarship, so that “women who are contemplating an MBA, who are concerned about the financial aspect of it, know that it’s an option for them,” Wolfe says.
Opening Doors for Others
Wolfe’s instinct to open doors extends beyond Executive Women of Goizueta. She’s a limited partner at How Women Invest—a women-led venture firm that invests solely in women founders. “Only about 2 percent of all venture capital funding goes to women-founded companies,” Wolfe says. “These are women who have great ideas and early-stage companies, they just can’t get the funding to scale.” She’s also involved with the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Impact100, and the Junior League of Atlanta.
That same impulse shows up closer to home. Wolfe didn’t have a mentor navigating college applications or the early years of her career—she didn’t even realize she could negotiate a job offer until she was graduating from Goizueta. “Nobody told me to even try to ask for more money,” she says. “The entire first decade of my career, I just said, ‘Okay, thank you.’”
Now she mentors Goizueta students and is active in Forté, a nonprofit that helps women pursue MBA degrees and advance in business.
“I want to make sure that I can be a resource now that I’ve gotten myself to that level,” she says. “I can help others coming up.”
Executive Women of Goizueta’s 2026-2027 Board
As Wolfe takes on the presidency and looks toward Executive Women of Goizueta’s next chapter, she’ll have plenty of support along the way. Joining her in leading the organization is the 2026–2027 board:
Past President
Julie Friedberg 87C 23EMBA
Vice President, Gas Development, NextEra Energy Resources
President
Liz Wolfe 16MBA 16MPH
Vice President, Operations- Professional & Advisory Solutions, McKesson
Treasurer/Secretary
Jen Kostyrna 04C 18EvMBA
Senior Director of Product Management, Identity Solutions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Vice President
Kuki Gandhi 15EvMBA
Director of Product Management, Waystar
Programming Chair
Setu Shah 15MBA
Product Marketing, Waystar
Programming Vice Chair—Conference
Kamile Herbst 21EvMBA
Senior Business Operations & Compliance Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Programming Vice Chair—General
April Carswell 27EMBA
Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Sponsorship Chair
Lorry Perkins 15EMBA 17L
Head of Enterprise Transformation Operations & Effectiveness, Emory University
Sponsorship Vice Chair
Cicely Parker 16EMBA
Senior Solutions Engineer, Oracle
Sponsorship Vice Chair
Haniya Vaid 20EMBA
Former Senior Director of Technical Project Management, Emory University
Community Engagement
Abby England
Principal, Abby England Consulting
Marketing Chair
Danielle McGivney 16EvMBA
Vice President, Organizational Change Management & Strategic Communications, KWI Communications
Member at Large
Katie Lahey 24EvMBA
Director of Operations and Client Services, Riverstone Advisors, LLC
About Executive Women of Goizueta
With the mission of creating an inclusive community that advances leadership for Goizueta women and allies at every career stage, Executive Women of Goizueta was started 24 years ago by Sarah O’Brien 03MBA. Executive Women of Goizueta’s annual conference is open to the entire Emory University community and to friends of the organization.
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