Being a leader in education is rewarding and a lot to carry
I help you find the solutions, skills, and capacity to lighten the load, celebrate the wins and make it work.
Becoming an awesome leader requires a safe space for clarity and honest reflection. Then you can gain real confidence to embrace your strengths and communicate with consideration.
So show up with questions
Show up with bags under your eyes
Show up with lofty goals
Show up with your mistakes
show up with your milestones
I’m a safe space for it all
Your school needs problem solvers, creative thinkers and empathetic facilitators – leaders who are ready and resilient to change, and can inspire others to enact positive action in your school and beyond.
Are you ready to be the person who leaves a legacy?
My approach to coaching and mentoring helps you or your team embrace diversity, leverage strengths, activate more inspired thinking and build resilience through community.
Here’s how I can support you
Slow down and embrace inquiry
I encourage you and your team to slow down so you can listen to different voices, including your learners, and make thoughtful decisions led by facts and evidence, not assumptions.
By turning inward and having the courage to wrestle with profound questions, you’re creating solid foundations to:
lead with impact and conviction
see the bigger picture
navigate tricky conversations
become more comfortable with code switching
develop a growth mindset
uncover your bias
and sharpen your skills and pedagogical practice
Realise your potential
Whether you’re new to leadership, are a confident leader ready to enter the next stage of your career, or during times of transition, I support you and your team to realise your potential.
While you can bring me in for a certain stage, season or project, I also coach my clients over the long-term. I’ll adapt my coaching style to suit your ongoing professional development, so you never feel like you’re plateauing or becoming complacent.
Reconnect with your purpose by focusing on what you can control
If you’re feeling exhausted fighting things outside your control, I can help you adapt to external changes and pressures without compromising your beliefs and integrity.
Drawing on research, my coaching toolkit, and my own lived experience, I support you to navigate mandated changes, curriculum shifts, and big personalities without losing your purpose or your love of your mahi.
It’s true for every leader: stepping outside your comfort zone and holding yourself and your people accountable are a given.
But with care and compassion, I will mentor you to move past struggle street and become a grounded, strong, compassionate, culturally responsive and strategic leader.
Transform into a grounded and strategic leader even when stakes and tensions run high
You’ve got to be able to trust your coach and be free to share anything. With me in your corner, you can move past fire-fighting mode and triage the challenges you’re up against, so you understand the most pressing issues and where to invest your time, energy and resources to achieve the greatest impact.
With work and focus, you can be the type of leader who lives and breathes equity and creates opportunities for everyone to see and realise their potential, so previously disadvantaged tamariki benefit and belong.
Communicate with care and confidence
So much of your leadership depends on being a considered, flexible and confident communicator.
Having the discernment to know what to say to who and getting the timing and messaging right is not something you’re born with. It’s a skill you develop.
The good news is we can practise these skills together, with role play and scripting until you feel confident to think on your feet.
Celebrate your milestones and notice what’s already good and true at your school
Negativity bias is a real thing. So when you’re tempted to ruminate or be hard on yourself, I’ll be your cheerleader, encouraging you to reflect on your successes, the impact you’ve already made, and how much you’ve achieved.
Celebrating what is good and solid will keep you on track, so you don’t lose yourself in the weeds.
Choose the best approach. Achieve the richest results.
I will adapt my approach to suit you and your goals. My methods include spiral of inquiry work, working with you one-to-one, and group facilitation. With some of my clients, I use role play and scripting. For others, it’s about overcoming a particular challenge or roadblock.
You can expect to go beyond the surface level to uncover what's really important. Not only will we explore the attitudes, behaviours or thinking patterns holding you back, we will reflect, remember and strengthen your values, vision, skills, and leadership goals.
So, how about it?
Book a complimentary discovery call to discover how spiral of enquiry, one-on-one coaching or group facilitation can support you or your school.