New Ideas | Coaching&Convening 2

New for 2021:

Designed for busy leaders in the education sector who have strategy and/or management challenges.
Change your professional habits, shift the dynamic of those around you, and improve the pace and quality of your org's work.
Manage your own stress better through wellness and develop more resiliency, agility, and consistency.

For many this was our most challenging year professionally, leading communities through a series of crises that accompany this ongoing pandemic:
- the persistence and trauma of racism and poverty
- loss of community spaces that once helped us heal
- unprecedented learning loss and access to academic quality
Few people know the heavy lifting you’ve done to mitigate the impact on those you serve - managing through sickness and death and anxiety among those in our professional communities as well as our own families.
Most leaders felt some level of chaos or challenge or inadequacy. I offer a process for you to reflect, prioritize, and pivot.

We’ve been in survival mode for this past year, we need to shift into a sustainable phase of reconnecting, rethinking, rebuilding.
Ed leaders are saying they want to be more adaptive, empathetic, and steady - to better demonstrate the approach and balance they are seeking in others.
I will help you to align your own habits and actions with the demands required by your context and strategy. I will help you to see how habits can serve as the accelerants or obstacles in rallying your community around the work.
We will rethink some of your professional habits and refine how they shape the group dynamics, beliefs, and outcomes of those around you.

The unique addition of trail running is about helping us to build new habits. It is less about becoming a long term runner; it is more about learning how you uniquely build discipline and create consistency on something new.
You will feel the challenge and reward of a wellness activity outside your current day to day.
If you’re not a runner that’s even better, as we will walk as well. We don’t aim for a particular distance or pace, rather the achievement is in building a new habit - and then for that pattern to serve as the model for leading future change within ourselves, among others, and across systems.

More details:

We will start with a ten-week commitment, and then we can expand to a full year of partnership since we need time to begin to see change at all levels: within you, among those you lead, and ultimately in the culture of how work gets done.
We dive deep into your org’s policies, priorities, and problems - and the impact on people. This is part strategy consulting, part executive coaching, and part running training.
We will walk through the community you serve, run along rivers and in parks, and spend most of our time outside and socially distant.

Although this might not be for everyone, I will ensure access to anyone.