Helping people grow, lead, and make change

Personal growth and meaningful change

I work with people leading in hard places: department chairs and deans stretched thin, faculty carrying more than their job description, nonprofit teams trying to do good without burning out.

Whether you need individual coaching support or organizational partnership, I bring practical, thoughtful guidance grounded in experience. Always customized. Your unique situation deserves more than a cookie cutter solution.

Every partnership is designed in conversation with your goals, your culture, and your context. For coaching, leadership development, workshops, or strategic consulting, I collaborate with you to turn reflection into action.

  • Confidential, individualized coaching for faculty, administrators, and professionals seeking support with career direction, leadership challenges, communication, productivity, burnout prevention, difficult conversations, and long-term growth.

    My coaching focuses on goals for the future and creating the plans and strategies that will help you to achieve those outcomes.

    I support your agenda and goals through open discussion, self-discovery, and accountability; serving as a sounding board and trusted thought partner rather than a mentor or advisor.

    I offer an Enneagram assessment, the iEQ9, for self-awareness data and leadership style analysis. 

  • Support for established and emerging leaders who want to increase self-awareness, strengthen people-management skills, navigate transitions, and lead with greater intention and effectiveness. I provide thought partnership for planning, culture change, retreats, dialogue, and initiatives related to leadership, community, belonging, and professional growth.

    Group coaching for leadership development helps reduce isolation and encourage robust peer collaboration.

    The iEQ9 Assessment for Leadership is included in Leadership Development.

  • I create interactive workshops, facilitated discussions, and learning experiences that make complicated topics more accessible and hard conversations easier. My workshops draw from highly effective strengths-based approaches infused with Emotional Intelligence, Intentional Change Theory, and Appreciative Inquiry. My workshops are designed to empower participants to pursue their goals using a combination of personal reflection, peer learning discussions, and pre- and post-workshop activities to develop skills and actionable plans for career advancement. Workshops are provided in a cumulative series, or as stand-alone programs.

    Recent workshops: 

    • Civility: Fostering a Respectful Workplace

    • Build a Mindful Career (graduate students, pre-tenure, or Associate to Full focus)

    • Effective Communication and Difficult Conversations

    • Career Advancement: Managing goals, time, priorities & people

    • Emotional Intelligence: Leading and Managing through Challenges

    • Conquer your “Imposter” Thinking

    • Work-Life Integration and Long-term Satisfaction

    • Community & Belonging

    • A Culture of Respect: More than bystanders and allies

    • Reducing Bias in Evaluative Process (Hiring, Retention, Mentoring)

  • My clients are from academia, the nonprofit sector, medical centers, national nonprofits, professional associations, leadership networks, as well as small business, individual artists, and activists from across the country. 

    • Tenured/TT Faculty, Teaching Faculty, Post-docs, Research Scientists

    • Deans, Associate Deans, Department Chairs

    • Higher Ed Administrators, Center Directors, General Counsel

    • Nonprofit Leaders, Administrators, Philanthropy Professionals 

    • Creatives, Theatre Artists, Visual Artists, Writers, Activists

    • Small business owners in a variety of industries.

Amanda is an experienced and trusted partner for meaningful personal and professional growth.

I bring decades of experience at the intersection of coaching, leadership development, facilitation, and equity-informed organizational work. My approach is informed by both professional credentials and decades of work with clients in academia and purpose driven work in career advancement, community and belonging, and nonprofit organizational change.

My clients value my services for the combination of strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, accountability, and care. Career, community, or change, my work is designed not only to help people think differently, but to help them act more effectively.

  • “I so trust her judgment and professionalism that I now refer my clients who need coaching services to her.”

  • “Having an external coach has helped me to move beyond the roadblocks and to achieve the goals I have set as a professor.”

  • “Amanda has helped me find simple, behavior-based solutions to problems that had been vexing my entire professional life.”

  • “Your thought-provoking exercises and discussion, your acceptance of where everyone in the room was made this a tremendously useful day. So, thank you.”

  • “I’m very grateful for working with you last year; it really helped jump start my research productivity and made me feel more optimistic about my career!”

  • “Amanda’s amazing gift is to show you how to bring out your best self and share it with others.”

  • “Amanda has been instrumental in my professional development in academia.”

  • “Through her thoughtful guidance, I learned how to lead more confidently and authentically in a way that reflects who I am.”

  • “Amanda’s coaching extended well beyond our sessions. I continue to draw upon the insights and practical lessons she shared, and they have made me a more self-aware, confident, and effective leader.”

Certified Constructive Dialogue Institute facilitator

Certified iEQ9 Practitioner