Working Well Coaching

I offer coaching around writing, research, and career decisions.

Writing

I coach clients around their writing practices, their sense of themselves as writers, and their written texts.

I help scholars, researchers, and writers increase their scholarly productivity (without working more!), develop sustainable writing practices, prioritize their writing, plan their writing, and organize and breakdown their writing tasks into doable chunks.

I also help scholars develop their texts and their scholarly voices. We might work on an article manuscript, a job talk, a cover letter, or promotion materials. Coaching might focus on clarifying your ideas in a manuscript, crafting a compelling personal narrative of your projects, or developing a research argument that is coherent, persuasive, and most importantly, is one that you believe in.

Research

I help clients move their research forward and manage their multiple roles in teaching, research, and service. This might involve finding direction in your research by developing and defining a research agenda, clarifying your next research project, following projects and manuscripts to completion, or experimenting with different ways of organizing, prioritizing, and delegating across multiple research projects.

It might also involve navigating difficult collaborations, more effectively leading your research team, creating meaningful mentoring relationships, or learning ways of speaking difficult things with honesty and kindness.

Career Decisions

I help clients with various work and life decisions and transitions, such as tenure and promotion, work-life balance, becoming a parent, going for a dream job, or returning to academia. This might involve clarifying career visions, identifying career needs, understanding the systems you are working within, building your network, increasing your visibility, or negotiating with a difficult boss.

I have coached clients through the process of changing positions, changing institutions, and changing careers and leaving academia.

Coaching might involve identifying interests, skills, and professional needs, while opening space for some new experiences and to learn from the feedback that those experiences give you.