Executive Coaching

Education has only recently recovered from one major crisis, now headed into another. Financial cuts require districts to become smarter about how to weather this storm. The cumulative toll of these burdens is undermining the stability of K-12 nationwide and must be addressed. Without funding to support the well-being of your entire district, executive coaching represents an economically scalable and sustainable mode of support.

Is my leadership team a good candidate for executive coaching?

• Does my team seem chronically stressed by the expectations of the community?
• Does my team operate in crisis mode too much of the time?
• Does my team feel faculty pressure to deal with student discipline?
• Does my faculty need stress relief, but lack the funds to scale a program?
• Am I concerned about the energy, investment, or fortitude of my leaders?

What is Executive Coaching (EC)?

This active learning medium combines personal growth with professional development, supporting the needs of leaders and the organization. Leaders learn how to grow their resilience while developing new skills to help them navigate the high demands of managing people and systems. Individual sessions with a licensed psychologist help leaders identify areas of strength and limitations while elevating job satisfaction.

What Are the Goals of Executive Coaching?

Executive Coaching is a practical modality supporting leaders both personally and professionally while addressing the district’s strategic goals. Primary goals include program innovation, crisis reduction, time management, skills to improve conflict resolution, and inspiring faculty. Secondary goals include stress inoculation, resilience building, and improving mental health. This work will be used to support faculty throughout the district.

What is Executive Group Coaching?

While leaders work on individual goals, supplemental support through group work is critical. More complex issues such as school violence, absenteeism, faculty turnover and systemic burnout are best addressed as a team.  Systemic goals are generally derived from a school district’s strategic plan. Through humor, creativity, and strategic thinking, groups grow more resilient.

Sample Series

Group Session #1: What are the main threats to the success of the district? What is the impact of managing these threats for leadership? How have these threats impacted the cohesion of the leadership team? The faculty? What is the etiology of these threats and how do they reflect the growing challenges for being an educator?

Group Session #2: What have we done to address the immediate and imminent challenges to the district? What has been the result of our efforts? What metrics are we using for success? What are the barriers to addressing these challenges?

Group Session #3: How can our team create ideas and innovate new methods for using resilience-driven problem-solving in our individual and systemic goals?

Supplemental Support

• An assessment to determine needs, concerns, and areas of focus.
• A bank of individual and executive coaching hours used over the year.
• A tool to measure, track, and plan goals with a dashboard to monitor progress.
• Articles, white papers, and other resources to bolster learning.
• Summative reports with metrics to determine program efficacy.

"Through creative, engaging and thought-provoking strategies, he has helped shape the perspectives of our school leaders as it pertains to SEL topics in the field of public education. Our school leaders have been motivated to apply theory and real-world applications to how we approach future programming and look forward to his return to our district.”

• Jim Lavender, Superintendent, Kingsway Regional & South Harrison Public Schools

Districts Using Executive Coaching Also Bundle

Admin Retreat: Build a foundation for your executive coaching with this half or full-day summer workshop, designed to cultivate creativity, catharsis, and cohesion.

Keynotes: Use one of our professional comedians or clinical psychologists to create a meaningful and entertaining experience to launch your school year.

Educator Longevity Programs: Reward your top talent and/or your new hires for participating in this groundbreaking program to improve longevity and propagate psychological fortitude.

Community Resilience Building: Once a select group of faculty are training, they turnkey that learning for students.

Faculty Workshops: Designed to bring joy and restoration to stressed educators.

• Humor Workshops: Teaching educators how to use humor as a teaching tool.
• Psychological Scavenger Hunt: Learn about mental health through teamwork.
• Resilience Jeopardy: Have fun while building a foundation for longevity.