MASTERING THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF
INTELLECT AND INTUITION

 Leadership Coaching

Cathy provides guidance, consultation, resources, and support along the way.

Coaching provides opportunities for leaders to:

• Increase self-awareness
• Focus on your strengths
• Define your "Why"
• Strengthen leadership and communication skills
• Adapt to new responsibilities and navigate transitions
• Pause and contemplate your worklife
• Nourish your growth 
• Work and live more consciously

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Social Justice Education

Cathy provides consultation, guidance, and resources to leaders and organizations grappling with issues related to  justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Social justice education provides opportunities for groups to: 

• Examine their common humanity, interconnectedness, and fellowship
  
• ​Apply an equity lens to your organizations' purpose, policy, and practice
  
• Recognize and address oppression and injustices in everyday work and life
• Learn to navigate oppressive dynamics
• Understand key terms and frameworks including the Cycle of Socialization, the Cycle of Liberation, interpersonal and structural analysis of oppression, privilege and disadvantage, implicit bias​
• ​Practice intergroup, cross-cultural communication skills, including learning to listen well, express emotions, ask clarifying questions, and address conflicts across social identities
• Deepen their understanding of how their individual identities are complex and important to how they live, work in and contribute to our diverse communities and worlds
• Explore their own cultural identities and increase cross-cultural self-awareness
  
• Analyze current and historical examples of social action
• Develop clear, collaborative, well-supported plans for action and further learning 

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Organizational Development

Cathy provides consultation, process design, and facilitation. 

Organizational development through strategic planning provides opportunities for organizations and their stakeholders to: 

• Clarify their vision and mission
• ​Collect, synthesize and prioritize  ideas, goals and strategies to support their vision
• Discover what really matters in order to enhance effectiveness
• Identify core issues and persistent barriers to success
• Review organizational frameworks, tools, and resources 
• Break down complex issues into manageable chunks allowing everyone to easily engage in the process
• Move ideas into action​​ using a streamlined implementation process
• Learn how-to build their mission and goals into everyday worklife

More About Professional Development

Cathy is mindful of academic culture, attends carefully to particular work styles and strengths, and offers thoughtful, practical follow-up ideas. Cathy can help you think through new and old challenges in the specific context of office environments, space and organizational systems.

           -- Dr. Eileen Elrod, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Santa Clara University