Customized school consulting during times of change can be the difference between reacting to a situation and being in front and in control. Kathryn, as lead consultant, will assess the challenges and changes facing your school and work with you each step of the way for a smooth transition. Kathryn has extensive knowledge in real estate challenges, governance or sponsorship changes, crisis communication, transition communication, stakeholder communication, enrollment during transitions, and more. In addition, she has a team of specialists in specific areas who can assist as needed.

Rates are typically monthly with a three-month minimum.

Change is inevitable in any organization or school. Let’s get to work before the change takes hold.

Building Organizational Resilience is a research-based program that assesses your organization’s resilience in areas such as community, core values, collaborations, competition, creativity, communication, and more. Assessments, tools, exercises, and homework are all part of the creative and strategic thinking needed to plan for the inevitable and unpredictable and to make sure your school or organization has the resilience to continue to thrive.

• Building Organizational Resilience is offered as a lecture or workshop for a variety of schools/organizations or individual groups.

• Building Organizational Resilience is offered as a 3-month commitment with multiple assessments, planning, meetings, coaching, and deliverables to prepare for the future.

• Building Organizational Resilience is offered as two-night retreat that includes team building and leadership training.

The best investment an organization can make is in its employees. Once you hire your top leaders, support them with 90 days of Leadership Coaching. Ideally, the support begins 30 days before the start date but can also begin at any time. Using design thinking, strategic planning tools, and some practical tips gleaned from leaders over the years, we will work together to make sure that your new leader is equipped with the tools, mindset, a plan, support, and lots of practical resources to help them start out strong - ready for the marathon of leadership in your school or organization.

• Explore and compare the missions and priorities of the leader and the organization.

• Uncover limiting beliefs, gravity problems, and anchor problems of the leader and the organization.

• Develop a 90-day plan to identify the biggest challenges and ways to elicit the support the leader will need from the community.

• Create a daily/weekly/monthly plan that takes into account the varying roles and responsibilities of the leader and have your coach as your accountability partner.

• Identify areas of delegation in both the personal and professional arenas.

• Develop a system for daily action to support your decision to triumph!

Gather with colleagues and discuss how to use design principles and strategic planning processes to thrive through change and discover the fuel you need to create your future and your organization’s future. In this session, you will walk away with confidence and inspiration and action steps to fuel your future.

• Find the comfort in the discomfort of change.

• Explore gravity problems and anchor problems and what to do with them.

• Participate in hands-on activities to move you out of your comfort zone and into a whole new mindset.

• Explore futures that are full of possibility.

• Clarify ways to start small with the lives you are creating in the midst of change.

• Walk away with confidence and inspiration and some action steps.

How do we help our faculty, staff, parents, and students build up resilience? Everyone will face a challenge, a change, or even a crisis at some point. This workshop helps specific groups normalize the predictability of the need for resilience and provides background and tools for self-resilience as well as helping students and children with their resilience. Topics include core values, empathy, reality versus the story, mindset, self care, and strengths.

Designed for the workplace, this program challenges team members to get out of their comfort zones and explore new ways of thinking. Whether writing a new mission statement, adding a division, grade or department; wondering about additional revenue streams, or preparing for a new Head of School, this workshop will help. Using design principles and strategic planning tools, this program sets the groundwork for change. In this session, your team will walk away with confidence and inspiration as you enter a new phase in the life of your organization.

• Find the comfort in the discomfort of change.

• Explore gravity problems and anchor problems and what to do with them.

• Explore futures that are full of possibility.

• Consider ways to fulfill your mission and increase revenue.

• Participate in hands-on activities to move out of the box and into a new way of thinking about the resources already in existence.

• Walk away with confidence, inspiration, and possibilities!