Blog and Resources
Two Essential Questions Your Academic Promotion Packet Must Answer
Ever wondered why you can’t just submit your C.V. for your promotion review and be done with it? After all, putting together a packet is a lot of work. It’s often confusing, and the requirements and format are different at every college and university. So what gives?...
Sometimes More Time is Not the Answer
A tenure-track assistant professor I coach recently described to me her frustration with being offered more time to achieve tenure. You might be thinking, that’s crazy! I would kill for more time! And sometimes more time is the answer, but this time, I agree with her,...
The Past is Prologue But the Future is Present: 6 Steps To Stop Reacting and Start Acting (So You Get What You Really Want)
If we believe that the past creates the future, we perceive that our choices are limited because the past cannot be changed. We set ourselves up to react to what has already happened rather than create action about what we want to happen. The consequence is that we...
A Life-Changing Perspective
You might remember Marianne Williamson as one of the Democratic primary candidates from the last election. You might not remember that she is the author of this quote, as it is often misattributed to Nelson Mandela. “Our deepest...
A Formula for Writing Effective External Evaluation Letters
In the 10+ years that I led promotion and tenure for a large college at a Big Ten University, I read thousands of external evaluation letters. In my view, they fall into one of two buckets – useful or not useful – with the vast majority belonging to the latter. So if...
My Why
I really struggled with whether to focus my coaching business on women. I worried that focusing on professional development for women would send a message that women need extra help because they are deficient, that there’s something wrong with the women. This fear...