Your strategic plan needs leaders who are ready to execute it.
Coaching and team development for academic leadership teams across Canada and the United States.
Shift from one-dimensional department policies and procedures to cohesive leaders and teams.
Faculty and staff are overworked, disappointed in the status quo, and burned out.
Navigating the competing demands of higher education can leave you – and your staff – feeling stuck and reluctant to step into full capabilities. Balancing ambitious goals with community well-being and institutional priorities requires clarity and intentional guidance for your unique academic workplace.
Self-development and staff actualization seem unattainable without well-resourced mentorship.
You know there’s a better way forward through complex challenges, but pedagogy can only take you so far. Realizing your potential and helping your team requires research-backed resources to nurture growth and sustain mastery.
Cookie cutter corporate workshops don't provide models for colleges and universities.
The notion that one size fits all doesn’t work in higher learning institutions. While models are helpful, elevated impact and efficiency come from approaches aligned with the dynamics of your institution.
Twenty years inside academia. A decade of experience coaching its leaders using research-backed coaching methods.
Academic culture rewards individual expertise. Team performance requires something more.
Facilitated development using DISC, Belbin Team Roles, Emotional Intelligence, and Resilience@Work — adapted for how academic culture actually works.
Facilitated development using DISC, Belbin Team Roles, Emotional Intelligence, and Resilience@Work — adapted for how academic culture actually works.
You’re ready to navigate your ambitions differently and master yourself while succeeding within the academy.
You’ve earned your place in the academy, but professional fulfillment looks different now: you’re ready to assess and align with your most important values in mind. Actualizing your principles is dependent on understanding your current version of yourself and your definition of success while creating space to explore the bigger questions relevant to your academic career and role in communities at large.
Building emotional agility, openness, and true success along your path requires a thought partner who has been there and done that in a higher education setting. Whether your ambitions involve advancing your leadership, exploring non-traditional career paths beyond academia, or mastering the intricate institutional landscape, our coaching relationship is meticulously customized to your unique aspirations.
Let’s work together to strengthen your relationships with yourself and others to shift reluctance into excitement and resilience.
Working with Jennifer helped me find meaning and value in my academic work after really struggling with that following the pandemic. It also helped me mentally move into a new phase in my career–from pre-tenure to Associate Professor. She helped me see that I was still adopting a ‘supplicant’ attitude in many ways and working with her helped me become feel like more of an agent in my career. In doing so, I was able to have the confidence to move my research into a brand new direction and feel okay that it might fail, not be received well, etc. In working with her , I also realized what a challenge certain aspects of working in a team are for me and exposed areas for growth–these areas are proving more challenging for me but Jennifer gave me tools to continue to work on them.
– New Associate Professor
Chart the course for academic alignment and success.
DISCOVER TRUE NORTH
Whether your focus is on your development, or you’re responsible for a department or team, our initial consultation will explore challenges, gaps, and aspirations as we craft a plan toward meaningful fulfillment.
REALIGN YOUR DIRECTION
We’ll work together to set goals to support your path, shaping our working relationship with intention and purpose for you and/or your academic colleagues.
NAVIGATE STRATEGICALLY
Putting plans into action, we’ll journey together using a toolkit of research-backed strategies and techniques designed to accelerate purposeful results for individuals and for institutions.
Whether you’re on a personal or team-driven quest, I’m here to help align your compass toward intelligent next steps so that you and your team can be in command of your own successes.
Unveiling Extraordinary Possibilities: Explore Our Specialized Services
Workshops, Seminars, and Facilitated Experiences: Interactive Wisdom + Shared Discovery
Let’s build real value in real-time with an immersive experience to build collective wisdom while fostering connection and collaboration. Depending on your goals, we’ll voyage through transformative topics like prioritization, role clarity, resilience, mindfulness, team possibilities and norms, and more, to unlock potential and ignite positive change.
Team Coaching and Development: Individual Excellence +
Team Alignment
Personalized and tailored coaching for collaborative scholarly and administrative teams optimizes the expertise of each individual while producing collective synergy and partnership. Through appreciative inquiry and shared goals, this process builds trust, engagement and buy-in across departments and campuses.
Speaking & Facilitated Experiences: Shared Wisdom + No Geographical Constraints
No matter where your campus resides, we can build a transformative experience for you or your team. Whether in-person or online, let’s customize your speaking engagements and facilitated seminars to chart your next steps individually or as a team.
