Leadership Development

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It was so fun to chat with you about how to do more culture work within UME, particularly with the Web 3 start ups and engineers that you're currently working with.  

I've begun to brainstorm how to create a curriculum that builds your clients' skills and capacity for leadership, collaboration, accountability, communication, embodying their mission, and org design as they scale mostly without an HR team. 

Purpose

potential

Leadership development professional with an equity-centered approach, supporting organizations to align their values, leadership capacities and outcomes. Designing solution-oriented and people-centered strategies to foster efficiency, connection to mission, and belonging.

Organizational Development: Organizational Design, Talent Development, Assessment Tools, Change Management, Transition Consulting, Organizational Culture, Organizational Strategy, 360, Leadership Circle Assessment Tool.

Coaching: Executive Coaching, Team Coaching, Somatic Coaching, Facilitation, Public Speaking, Presentation skills.

Education and program development: Curriculum Development, Program Design, Program Development, Professional Learning Design, 

Project management: Budget Creation and Management, ROI Analysis, Creative Concept Design, Vendor Management.

Tools & Technologies: Google Suite, Project Management Software, Microsoft Office, Learning Management Systems.

Interpersonal Skills:Stakeholder Engagement, Partnership Building and Management, Conflict Resolution.

Focuses / experiences

Euphemia Russell Leadership Development 2016 - Present

Executive and Leadership Coach       Remote

• 1:1 thought-provoking coaching for executive and leadership level individuals utilizing information and somatic practices to enhance leadership skills, communication, productivity, and wellness. Partnered with clients to build and strengthen leadership competencies that align and support business outcomes, with 85% of clients stating they achieved their goals, and a Net Promotion Score (NPS) of 79%.

• 1:1 personal coaching utilizing communication, somatic practices to support purpose, resilience and belonging for 1000+ clients with a 98% retention rate over 3 and 6 month programs.

• Retainer team development group coaching with a focus on engagement,  belonging, inclusion, purpose and collaboration. Creating cohesion and communication for the sake of fulfillment, productivity and retention. Individual satisfaction rate of 84% and client satisfaction rate of 96%.

• Program and curriculum development and design for team, group coaching and events through 13 courses from 1-6 months with 3000+ participants and a 90% satisfaction rate.

• Recurring retainers as advisor and consultant to organizational leaders for leadership development, equity content and processes, inclusion and belonging, and healthy productive work culture that fosters efficiency and impact. 

• 1:1 transition and succession coaching for senior leaders exiting and entering new organizational roles, with a satisfaction rate of 88% from Leadership.

• Bestselling author of an instructional health book (2022) for adult learning published with Hardie Grant Books and Chronicle Books in 5 countries.

Chief Executive Officer                                                                                                                                          

• Lead a team to execute team coaching programs for international audiences from 27+ countries in 3-6 month cohorts.

• Facilitates team strategy process, annual goal development, work plans, including a culture and climate assessment focus on DEIB. With ongoing monitoring and measuring of the effectiveness of change programs. Across organizations, there’s an average increase of engagement and satisfaction at 23% increase, reduction in turnover at 12% decrease, and operational efficiency at 22.7% increase.

• Designed, implemented and analyzed program assessments, 360-degree staff evaluation and feedback processes with a strengths-focused approach within an in-house retention rate of 100% over 4 years. Support goal development and role clarification through strengths-led targeted team interventions.

• Self leadership and self-starter in an agile setting. Managing business development, and identifying and alleviating risks through data-driven analyses. Bias towards action and tactical execution, proactive, hands-on, problem solving, organized, adaptable, process-oriented, and day-to-day operations.

Supergood Coaching, an Executive Coaching Company 2019 - now

Leadership Coach                                                                                                                                  San Francisco, CA 

• 1:1 thought-provoking coaching with somatic and creative processes to support leadership, employees and teams. Helping them to increase productivity, team communication, goal development, change management responses, leadership skills, executive presence, conflict resolution, leadership onboarding, efficiency, and employee engagement.

• Working with corporate technology companies who are Fortune award winning. Collaborating with learning and development, and human resources leaders to support Leadership.

Well Beyond Academics, A Health Education Company 2017 - 2020

Organizational Development Consultant and Facilitator                                                                      San Francisco, CA                    

• Lead organizational development advisor and consultant to directors. Implementing organizational strategy, organizational design, strategic planning, with complex data analyses supported by qualitative and quantitative research to measure the effectiveness of organizational structures and team development approaches.

• Building culture awareness through team development and training of new and current facilitators within a team of 5. Promoting an alignment between organizational culture, business goals, and procedures and policies. 

• Group facilitation of over 150 groups with over 3000 participants through tailored programs with a one-of-a-kind Responsive Design Model to teach an inclusive and harm-reduction approach.

Good Shepherd Australia and New Zealand, International Non-Profit Organization 2013 - 2015

Communications and Training Coordinator                                                                                     Melbourne, Australia

• Led Organizational Development focused communications and training for a national network of 652 organizations, Federal Government, and Corporate Executive partners to create cultural cohesion and a shared vision.

• Built relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and teams for cultural cohesion through internal and external partnerships.

• Led communications and instructional design for a major culture transformation and change management process with the creation of a new separate organization. Supported a national network of 652 organizations and staff of 120 people through: training, manuals, collateral, intranet, and newsletters. Created materials for microlearning and learning at the point-of-need. 

• Implemented and scaled training events, team development events, DEIB trainings, ‘train the trainer’ series, annual 4-day national training and conference for 500 staff and in-network partners. Managing $180K-$220K budgets for each annual event. Managed three state trainings for 60-100 people in direct response to a comprehensive needs assessment.

TWNH, Regional Non-Profit Organization 2011 - 2013

Program Development Coordinator                                                                                                 Melbourne, Australia

• Managed a team of 15 people across 4 programs. Led program development, program design, project management and staff training.

• Regularly led an evaluation process to assess program growth areas. Conducted a culture, climate and needs assessment and led a work group to overhaul trainings, projects and processes. Monitored and measured effectiveness of change programs. 

Creating organizational programs to drive changes that embraced diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging (DEIB). Consulted the CEO to align organizational priorities with work culture.

Support

What support do you need and desire as you cultivate your pleasure and aliveness?

Experiences I focus on:

The details:

This is a big commitment of your capacity, time, money, and presence. So here are the details to help you settle into the possibility.

• Session cadence:

  • 3-month coaching: 12 sessions over 3 months.

  • 6-month coaching: 24 sessions over 6 months.

• Communication: between sessions, I encourage you to stay connected through Telegram with text and voice messages. I encourage this to be a place to share, ask, celebrate, reflect, be accountable to your practices. I will have a 24-48 hour response time between Mondays-Fridays, and not respond on weekends.

• Resources: I will share or create practices, resources, recordings, referrals, and guidance that would most deeply support your focus. I have an array of options from my 8-years of doing this work full-time and my many trainings.

• Access to my offerings: You will receive access to Microdosing Pleasure: an audio library, my 4 technique courses, and also my online group space. You will also receive access to any offerings and workshops I offer (not in collaboration) while we’re working together. 

• Session times: sessions are 60-mins on weekdays (California time) with one rest week off a month. We will book all sessions at the beginning of each month, with flexibility to change if we need. 

• Cost:

  • 3-months: $4140 USD in total. Or $1404 USD deposit for the first month, and then $1000 USD for 3 months. Extended payment plans can be negotiated individually.

  • 6-months: $7007 USD in total. Or $1507 USD deposit for the first month, and then $1100 USD per month for the following 5 months. Extended payment plans can be negotiated individually.

Frequently asked questions:

Where are you based?
I live on Tongva land/Los Angeles, California. And, I was born on unceded Wurundjeri land, known as Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

What is a session like? 
Sessions are 60-minute Zoom video sessions, with live captioning if you need. In a session, we will distil the focus of your commitment to pleasure and aliveness overall, the focus of the session, and then in each session it will be a combination of pleasure practices, intuitive movement, somatic practices, reflection questions.
The intention of these are to help you listen to yourself, acknowledge your barriers and pleasure dampeners, build self-trust, and invite in more pleasure and aliveness.

How is coaching different from therapy?
It really depends on the style of coaching and therapy, but very generally and crudely here’s how I would explain the difference.

Therapists are licensed, and trained in institutions that have firm expectations of how things are done. Which is so helpful for heavier experiences such as trauma. Generally, therapy is focused on finding clarity and resolution with past experiences, but not necessarily future focused.

Whereas, despite the fact that I have training and certification, coaching is a more unregulated industry. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) has requirements, ethics, and approaches, but not everyone is required to follow them. As for the focus, coaching is usually more focused on the future and moving towards what you care about most, and feeling in alignment, through practices. With somatic coaching, we focus on how to notice what you care about and take action through standing, seated and lying movement practices. There is an emphasis on noticing the whole self (thoughts, feelings and sensations) not just talking and thinking your way through an experience. As for focusing on the past, my approach and my training lineages will acknowledge the past, traumas, survival strategies (I call them wise protectors), safety shapes, and our socialisation for the sake of integrating them and softening them as we move towards what we care about more. Coaching is also often an opportunity for supported self reflection, rather than But not attempt to resolve, fix or clear them.

If you have more questions about this distinction, please let me know!

What is your approach to privacy? 

• No sessions are recorded unless you want recordings of particular practices. 

• Session notes are saved in a Google Drive folder, which no one else has shared access to. 

• All our communicated inbetween sessions are on Signal, which is an end-to-end encrypted messaged app, where even Signal doesn’t have access to your messages.

• I don’t speak with anyone but you about your sessions and explorations. What you say stays in sessions, and what is learnt leaves.

What is your experience of working with Black, Indigenous, and People of People of Colour? 
About 60% of my clients are people of colour, and I work with Indigenous people, Black people, Blak Indigenous people, and People of Colour in all my offerings.
To support my unlearning of White Supremacy culture and transmuting my Whiteness I have mentors, a coach who guides me if I face challenges, ongoing racialised somatic training, and self-organised politicised healing group. These spaces are to support me to unlearn and process, without putting on expectation or responsibility on my clients to help me do this.

Are you open to working with people you already know personally? 
Yes, I am open to working with people I have existing relationships with (except immediate family). I’d love to support and resource you. 
I hold privacy and a distinction between work and life with high rigour and clarity. I won’t mention you or any details of working together with anyone. The only exception is if I see you in person and you mention in friend of others, then I will respond.
My only request is that you don’t expect to share updates or ask for guidance outside sessions and group spaces unless I ask and invite them. 

Can I do 1:1 Embodied Remembering coaching with you if I’ve already done 1:1 coaching with you before? 
Yes, absolutely!