COACHING

​My goal is to get you from here to where you want to be, returning precious time where it belongs, with you and your family.

​I can help:
  • Make sense of detailed reports
  • Prioritize and recommend next steps
  • Identify tech tools and teach you how to use them
  • Connect you to experts
  • Identify strengths and create a personal development plan 
  • Advise you on education options and alternative learning models, such as self-directed education, part/full time home schooling, online schooling, travel/worldschooling
  • Create an educational plan for a sabbatical or other extended leave of absence
  • Provide mentoring and advocacy
  • Provide coaching and personalized instruction in academic and executive functioning 

See below for profiles of Representative Clients.

Contact me regarding these and other personalized offerings.

PRESENTATIONS

I'm available for presentations, seminars, and trainings at schools, workplaces, and organizations for both adult and youth audiences. 

Contact me about topics, scheduling, availability, and fees.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

  • Family taking a leave of absence from private school - developing and implementing a personalized self-directed educational plan, including recommendations for hands on learning and travel-related curriculum 
  • High school junior with ADHD and ASD - strengths identification and deployment, talent, executive function and academic skill development integrated with technology tools, college planning and application support, transition-to-independence coaching and skill development.  
  • Family with gifted elementary school child recently identified with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia  - review and discuss testing results and reports, prioritize and recommend next steps, enrich understanding of the child's brain profile, current neuroscience and short and long term development trajectories, assess strengths, explore and recommend educational alternatives, including recommending academic settings, specialists, tutors and mentors in child's areas of strength and passion, developing and implementing a personalized educational plan, teaching assistive technology to parents and child, supporting communications and advocacy with school administration, counselor and teachers
  • Brilliantly creative teen leaving high school to self-direct her education - Strengths identification and deployment, self-directed education (SDE) coaching, planning, goal-setting, parent coaching and SDE education
  • Profoundly gifted teen recently identified with dyslexia, dysgraphia and ASD and his parents - academic options, academic and executive function skill development, mindset and strengths awareness and deployment, advocacy and communication support vis-a-vis private school counselors, academic advisors, and instructors, recommending accommodations, creating personalized writing process, teaching assistive technology, personal passion enrichment/talent development, health assessment and recommendations (sleep hygiene, exercise, nutrition)
  • Family transitioning from home school to private middle school - academic and strengths assessments, mindset, executive function and academic skills development, technology tools instruction, writing process instruction
  • High school freshman with superior creativity and language-based learning differences - creative writing enrichment, writing process, academic essay instruction, Latin/Greek stem-based vocabulary development, assistive technology
  • Gifted high school senior with dyslexia and dysgraphia - writing process, assistive technology, academic skills and executive functioning skills (planning, task initiation, organization, time management, sustained attention), strengths assessment and deployment, health assessment and recommendations (sleep hygiene, nutrition, exercise), college application process
  • Exceptionally gifted middle school boy with ADHD & ASD - 504/IEP recommendations, health recommendations (sleep hygiene, nutrition, exercise), strengths identification and deployment, executive function and writing process
  • 2E teens applying to and attending college and boarding school  - Strengths identification and deployment, executive function and writing coaching, transition planning, goal-setting, parent coaching and education