Leadership Coaching enables motivated individuals and groups to explore possibilities, plan, take action and create visible and invisible results.
My goal is to help educators, in whatever roles they hold in schools, to thrive in awareness, growth and professional prowess. Drawing on considerable training and experience in leadership coaching, I enable individuals who are willing and curious to take themselves on with courage, energy and optimism.
“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”.
Theodore Roosevelt
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsh
This is a historic time for teaching and learning. Leaders both inside the classroom and in administrative roles are reimagining, recalibrating and retrofitting schools in ways we’d never expected. A coaching relationship enables safe, honest and probing conversations using situations leaders are dealing with. In each session, individuals create actionable solutions that fit their personal values and aspirations within the mission of their school.
If this sounds like something that you would like to learn more about, I invite you to read on about my leadership services, and a bit about my background.
Framework for Collaborative Leadership
To celebrate the first decade of my leadership coaching, in 2018 I created a Framework for Collaborative Leadership, inspired by Charlotte Danielson’s “Framework for Teaching”. The quadrants capture and elaborate on four fundamental aspects of each leadership coaching conversation:
I. Preparation and mindset
How you show up for a conversation significantly determines its process and outcome. Taking time to quiet your mind, body and spirit can be done in minutes. Planning for content and personality also fall into preparation.
II. Compassionate curiosity
You listen to learn. The art of interrogating reality is in thinking through the anatomy and choreography of questions. What people say is about them; what you hear is about you. When you learn to let go of the outcome, a conversation often deepens and broadens significantly.
III. Doing the work
Tools, techniques and protocols give practitioners a richly useful toolbox for leading productively with clarity, awareness and traction.
IV. Debriefing
Every conversation is useful. Debriefing allows you to reflect on observed behavior, including yours, and notice patterns, revelations and ideas for further consideration and action.
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change your attitude”.
Maya Angelou
Resources
As my copy of Fierce Conversations shows, no matter what experience, wisdom, knowledge, competence or confidence you possess, every situation and conversation is different. Strong coaching leaders are always growing and becoming, listening and learning.
Take a look at the curated and annotated resources on the Framework. The books, podcasts, blogs and Ted Talks are a goldmine of field experience from renowned practitioners who individually and collectively have transformed my life. These resources bring ideas, inspiration and language for you to feast on or be reminded about -- in addition to helping you gain clarity and validation for your leadership.
Add to them! Everyone creates their own particular library for their own style of leadership.
