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These offerings support my mission of helping individuals and teams do and be their best. In their own unique way, they support wholeness, interdependence, cultural competence, and collaboration.
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Upcoming Events
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Facilitator Mindsets Two-Day Workshop
April 30 & May 1, 2026 Wauwatosa School District 12121 W North Ave., Wauwatosa, WI 53226 Great facilitation isn't just about techniques. It's about mindset. This engaging and interactive two-day workshop will help you unlock your group's potential by developing the internal dispositions that make truly effective facilitation possible. |
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NCTIES 2026 Conference Session
March 4-6, 2026 Raleigh Convention Center 500 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh, NC 27601 This session offers practical team-based strategies for groups to work together better. It offers leaders ways to better balance participation in meetings and group work. Additionally, the session outlines ways leaders can increase ownership and build leadership capacity among group members. |
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Seminar & Workshop Offerings
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Description: The training explores what makes teams effective, and how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
4-Day, In-person Training Only https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com |
Goal: The goal of Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the collective identity and capacity of organization members as collaborators and inquirers and leaders.
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Description: You will gain an enhanced understanding of the importance of facilitation. Through a variety of learning formats, you will experience the effects of the Five Mindsets and recognize them in facilitation. You will increase your efficacy and repertoire of tools and processes to operationalize each Mindset. This two-day training is perfect for teacher leaders, administrators, and others who facilitate meetings in your district.
Audience: School or organizational leaders who facilitate meetings (i.e., Dept Meetings, Professional Learning Communities, etc.), Teacher Leaders, and Instructional Facilitators. Two-Day Training https://teachersasfacilitators.com |
Goal: Our goal is to increase the quality of collaboration that produces benefits for stakeholders (i.e., students, patients, or clients).
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Description: Conflict is inevitable, and until it's addressed, it becomes increasingly difficult to work with. Just as clouds have silver linings, conflict can bring attention to existing issues hidden in plain view. Reframing conflict as a learning opportunity can help leaders navigate tension in the workplace that often leaves them feeling unheard, undervalued, and stressed. This session touches on microaggressions, differing perceptions, and other forms of workplace conflict. Participants will leave with guiding principles, strategies, and tools to help navigate conflict.
Customized Full-Day Training
- Overview of the Five TAF Mindsets
- A deeper dive into Diversity Enriches
- Never Let A Conflict Go To Waste
Customized Full-Day Training
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Description: Promoting a spirit of inquiry and authentic listening is essential in providing better outcomes. This workshop is an opportunity to build capacity in authentic listening and inquiry. This session introduces foundational components of communication tools that help others feel seen, heard, and valued. The intent is for participants to understand the what, why, and how of mindfulness, listening to understand, and posing questions. Whether collaborating with teammates, leading a department, interacting with families, or leading a school, these skills help provide greater outcomes and understanding.
Customized Full, Half, or Virtual Training |
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Description: At no time has the need for mindful adaptivity been so urgent, requiring focused, efficient and effective response to profound disruptive change. Natural tensions exist within individuals, groups and organizations when missions, identities, values, mental models and expected behaviors rapidly shift.
The polarity management framework and the underlying principles provide a practical set of resources for dealing with all polarities in life. Polarities are ongoing, chronic issues which are both unavoidable and unsolvable. Through this work, leaders can consciously use personal and group tensions, diversity and divergent thinking as resources for developing high performing cultures that promote community and productivity.
Customized Full, Half, or Virtual Training
The polarity management framework and the underlying principles provide a practical set of resources for dealing with all polarities in life. Polarities are ongoing, chronic issues which are both unavoidable and unsolvable. Through this work, leaders can consciously use personal and group tensions, diversity and divergent thinking as resources for developing high performing cultures that promote community and productivity.
- Complexity – a broader view of both part and whole;
- Change – converting resistance to change into a resource for stability;
- Conflict – developing "Both/And" thinking and "Win/Win" outcomes;
- Diversity – acknowledging, respecting, and leveraging differences.
Customized Full, Half, or Virtual Training
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Mediated thinking improves planning, reflecting, and problem-solving
Coaching conversations can be the key to cognitive shifts which unlock solutions and create self-directedness. Using Cognitive Coaching℠ and strengths-based coaching, I support individuals in continuous improvement. Coaching can help us navigate through dilemmas, understand challenging interpersonal dynamics, resolve conflicts, plan next steps, or fine tune a product. Please contact me with questions or to schedule in-person or virtual coaching.
Coaching conversations can be the key to cognitive shifts which unlock solutions and create self-directedness. Using Cognitive Coaching℠ and strengths-based coaching, I support individuals in continuous improvement. Coaching can help us navigate through dilemmas, understand challenging interpersonal dynamics, resolve conflicts, plan next steps, or fine tune a product. Please contact me with questions or to schedule in-person or virtual coaching.
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Cognitive Coaching℠
Gallup Strengthens Coaching The real improvement happens when people develop, not just discover, their talents. |
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Strentghs coaching focuses on helping people achieve their purpose using their CliftonStrengths.
- Strengths-based approach to improvement
- Accomplish what's most important to you
- Lead others to overcome obstacles
- Inspire and support greater performance
Contact for scheduling and pricing.