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Executive Coaching Services

What is Executive Coaching?

Executive coaching is a confidential, individualized, focused, one-on-one relationship with a trained skilled professional who can help the coachee increase effectiveness, embed new learning, achieve measurable results, and reach goals.

Long embraced by the business world, executive coaching is recognized as a powerful tool for increasing organizational strength, improving working relationships, and helping valuable leaders realize the full extent of their potential. Administrators, principals, and other school leaders are accomplished, goal-oriented adult-learners with unique needs and challenges.

Executive coaching provides a targeted, supportive, and collaborative partnership in which coachees can dialogue, brainstorm and develop strategies to effectively support the success of the organization. School leaders experiencing overly full plates and increasing external pressure to achieve results will move from feeling frustrated and overwhelmed to experiencing a feeling of optimism, focus, empowerment, and energy.

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How It Works

The coaching relationship is personalized based on individual goals, challenges, and needs. Through a process of inquiry, discovery, and collaboration the coach and coachee work together to increase awareness, define specific targets, and focus on creating pathways to achieving your professional goals more quickly.

Coaching is action-oriented and results-focused by nature; the process is supportive, positive, and reflective but each coaching session ends with a set of specific action items designed to move the change process forward. Coachees will "check in" as these action-items are completed, either during the next coaching session or by phone.

Coaching can take place face to face, or over the phone. Because it is a one-on-one relationship, coaching is highly flexible to accommodate the most demanding schedules and challenges.

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Our Rates

Coaching rates vary depending on the coach. Please refer to list of coaches and corresponding rates for details.

Day Rates

Day rates work best in districts where several administrators are receiving coaching. Our coaches can accommodate 7 coaching sessions in a one-day visit.

Phone Coaching / Hourly Rates

Phone coaching is an option that allows for flexibility in scheduling and "just in time" support for your needs. Rates range from $110 per hour to $150 per hour and times are arranged to fit your schedule and meet your needs.

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Our Executive Coaches

Alison Olzendam, Ph.D.
Dr. Alison Olzendam is the President and Founder of the Powerful Teaching and Learning Group. She has been a trainer for the Washington School Research Center, presenting Seminars at OSPI conferences, and numerous other conferences and is certified as an Extraordinary Leader Trainer in the Zenger-Folkman leadership series.  ›› Full bio
Day Rate: $1200
Hourly Rate: $150

Heather Knight, M. A.
Heather Knight serves as the Vice President of the Powerful Teaching and Learning Group and holds an MA in Professional Development. She has been a classroom teacher and principal and is a certified coach. Heather has extensive experience coaching teachers, administrators, coaches and professional learning communities. In addition, Heather is certified as an Extraordinary Leader Trainer in the Zenger-Folkman leadership series.  ›› Full bio
Day Rate: $1200
Hourly Rate: $150

Carla Jones
Carla is an Associate Clinical Professor at Washington State University and has been teaching classes in the department as well as serving as the Clinical Coordinator. Carla holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and school credentials as a special educator and speech-language pathologist. She has been at WSU for 15 years and continues to provide direct service to children with disabilities in the WSU Clinic and Head Start.  ›› Full bio
Day Rate: $900
Hourly Rate: $110

Freddie Barrett
Freddie Barrett, courageous pioneer, innovative educator and life-long learner, began her career as the first woman Management Trainee at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She has been a mentor in a “Coming of Age” program for 12-14 year olds, as well as teaching leadership classes in the “Gear Up” summer program at the University of Washington. As a Coach and Educator with the Powerful Teaching and learning Group, Freddie is passionate about making a difference in the lives of educators and our future leaders.  ›› Full bio
Day Rate: $900
Hourly Rate: $110

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Questions?

Contact us for more information.