Develop your character and you'll have a strong reputation and lead with impact!

As a woman leader, I bet you often feel bitter, resentful, lost or simply off.  That sucks, doesn't it?

Most of us want to feel good about our work, ourselves & our lives!

However, if you are like so many women leaders, you certainly aren't feeling happy, content, fulfilled, or satisfied. In fact, your days feel heavy. You feel as though a heavy, dark cloak of leadership is weighing you down, and you can't seem to get out from underneath it.

Warning: If you don’t find a way to get out of that funk soon, you’ll start to hate your job and dislike many aspects of your life.

​You do not have to do this alone!
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Leadership isn't something you develop and grow in yourself in isolation. It is crucial to find support.
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Learn to lead your nonprofit with confidence and strong character

Looking around you, you probably realize that most of your mentors lead with a masculine leadership style: Directive, task-oriented, hierarchical and competitive.

That’s not so helpful when you are trying to find YOUR way. 

A leader with a more feminine leadership style is naturally more collaborative, relationship-oriented, and flexible and leads with high emotional intelligence. This style of leadership is also proven to be more effective!

​If you want to learn to lead with your innate abilities and develop your leadership style, you must find someone who understands your journey, issues, challenges, and desires.

You need to find the right woman mentor.

Lead with YOUR Strength of Character - LeverageYour Leadership Potential

November 2024 - April 205
Join this transformative 6-month training experience and feel more empowered in your nonprofit leadership role. 

If you need to apply for funding for this course, I can help you with your application process by providing you with program-specific information for your application.

$3500  CAD

** Not sure if the course is right for you and want to as me some questions?
​Message me and we can arrange a time to chat and I'll answer all your questions!

Secure Your Spot Today!

Women nonprofit leaders are looking for someone the help them feel strong, confidence and impactful as they lead their nonprofit

Is that where you are at? Maybe you don't feel you are leading authentically!

​As a woman leading in a nonprofit organization, you aspire to contribute meaningfully, to feel valued and respected, and to maintain a healthy work-life balance  so you can come home at the end of the day with energy for the rest of your life!

                    . . .  Are there moments when the reality falls short of your expectations?
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Nonprofit leadership can be hard!

As a woman leader, there are times in your career when you may feel in over your head
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                          . . . You start to slip!

You have fears of 

• Failing
• Messing up
• Dropping the ball
• Losing it emotionally

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           . . . You worry that others are questioning your credibility.

Leadership can take a toll on you!

Maybe you feel a lack of respect from your team, your boss and even your colleagues.
Perhaps it feels as though they would just as soon throw you under the bus as support you and back you up.

• You don’t feel valued
• You don’t feel respected
• You don’t feel anyone cares about you

As a result…You spend a lot of time worrying, fretting and second-guessing yourself. You are anxious and/or depressed.

                    . . . As such, your confidence fades.

To compensate you

• Stay later 
• Push harder
• Stretch further

Leaders start to lose work-life balance

• You feel overwhelmed and frazzled
• You find yourself stretched and exhausted
• You notice your physical and mental health is suffering
• You see hints of your relationships begin to unravel

Leaders begin to fall out of integrity!

​When we are frazzled, short, or unhinged, despite promising things, we won't be able to deliver because we have too much on our plate or aren’t prioritizing most effectively what we are responsible for.

Constantly, we tend to be short, bitter or on edge, adversely impacting others. As a result, they might feel less comfortable approaching us now. Instead, they start gossiping about our poor responsiveness, mood and lack of integrity. 

Without realizing it, the way people see us and talk about us has the potential to ​damage our character.

                    . . . It did mine.

My team lost trust in me

I'd been leading my team for a number of year and they had been able to trust me in the past. However, the arrival of a large new contract changed that. Previously, I'd managed everything on my plate and did it with a level of confidence. But increased responsibility, travel, staffing, scope and budget all left me scrambling to hold things together. 

Because of that:

• I didn't always keep my word. 
• I didn't follow through on promises. 
• I neglected to listen to people, their ideas and their input. Instead, I railroaded through with my plan.

That year's feedback on my performance appraisal clearly indicated I lacked integrity.

Without trust, my team was falling apart!

When my team lost trust in me and felt I was out of integrity, they didn't feel they had a strong leader. Therefore, as trust in our team eroded, I lost followers. 

• They didn't get behind my ideas. 
• Their work performance dropped. 
• They lacked enthusiasm when I told them what they needed to do.

The team cohesiveness was quickly eroding, and in its place was tension, bickering, and whispering that stopped when I walked into the room. The decline culminated in a grievance filed against me. I was left fearful of being fired and, at the same time, ready to quit. 

This is how I rebuilt trust and regained my integrity

At first, I felt very lost and alone. I had no idea how to get out of the mess. I looked for help, but my male boss didn’t know how to help me. His approach to dealing with staff, work-life balance, and developing himself as a leader didn't fit me. 
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First, in addition to coaching, I started intentionally looking for help from female mentors. Many of those women were in books or online because that was the only place I could find them.
 
Then, I created a plan for change and growth for me that felt right for me as a woman leader who had emotions and nurturing urges but also a strong desire to do meaningful work and excel as a leader. I discovered that kind of growth happened from the inside out.

I got clear on my character strengths and became a character driven leader

Since then, I’ve researched how women can lead and live successfully and happily. And I’ve practiced and honed the strategies myself. 
Now, I teach, coach and mentor women like you to do the same.

This six month group program begins November 2024

How do you move from barely keeping afloat to an incessant nagging fear of failure to being grounded and balanced and back to feeling good about the work you do? You learn to lead from your strengths!

1) Uncover and discover YOUR unique self.
That includes identifying and cultivating your traits, talents and strengths. This is your character.

• Who am I?
• What are my strengths, gifts and talents?

2) Learn to lead from YOUR authentic self.
You do that over time, months and months of time. During that time, you follow a process of inner growth interwoven with outer practice.

• What kind of a leader do I want to be?
• What are the traits I want to cultivate?

3) You develop YOUR individualized plan to continue your growth
Character development is a life long journey. Creating your plan for continued growth will lay the habits, practices and routines to stay strong in your character.

• What do I need to do to get there?
• What steps will help me use my strengths and cultivate new traits?​

It's time to lead for you to be a Character Driven Leader

Lead with YOUR Strength of Character - LeverageYour Leadership Potential

November 2024 - April 2025
Join this transformative 6-month training experience and feel more empowered in your nonprofit leadership role. ​

If you need to apply for funding for this course, I can help you with your application process by providing you with program-specific information for your application.

$3500  CAD

** Not sure if the course is right for you and want to as me some questions? 
​Message me and we can arrange a time to chat and I'll answer all your questions!

Secure Your Spot Today!

To build strong leader character you'll need to engage in intentional change over time.

Are you ready to lead with your Strength of Character?

Registering for the Character Driven Leadership course will give you the feedback, guidance, coaching, mentoring, and accountability you seek. Additionally, you will develop a plan to continue your growth.

I promise when you finish the 6-month experience, you’ll discover you are finding YOUR way and that if you feel effective as a leader, you’ll feel happier as a person. 

Don’t waste another minute feeling lost. Register now for the upcoming session. Remember, finding your way involves a process of inner growth and outer practice.
​It’s a process that takes time.

​If you don’t start uncovering and discovering your authentic self now and leading authentically, you are going to continue to feel crappy, unhappy and bitter.

Learn to lead authentically and confidently by joining the Character Driven Leadership course.

Together and on your own you'll explore fundamental questions about your identity, leadership style, and aspirations.
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In the Character Driven Leadership course, you will uncover your strengths and learn to lead with those first.

Through a process of intentional change, you’ll learn to use the kills and traits of effective leaders by learning how to navigate the thoughts that often get in the way of how we lead. 

Learn to lead with your strengths

​Character driven leadership prioritizes the development of strong character traits and values unique to you.
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​Instead of focusing solely on your skills and abilities, you'll learn to be a character-driven leader emphasizing qualities such as integrity, honesty, empathy, humility, fairness, and resilience.

You won't be focusing on addressing weaknesses or deficiencies, 

You will be learning to leverage your innate talents and abilities to drive positive change.

You'll identify your unique strengths and learn how to harness them to enhance your leadership effectiveness.

Don't let leadership feel lonely and isolating!
Join other women as together you become Character Driven Leaders

The Character Driven Leadership course is a 6-month, online immersive character development experience that is interactive and involves both individual and group character development coaching and mentoring. It involves the following components:

Training to transform your leadership & your life

• Monthly 1-1 coaching 
• Monthly group mentoring calls 
• Monthly peer-to-peer networking calls 
• Online training with videos and self-study guides 
• The development of a roadmap to guide your journey 

Week after week, you will learn to get to know yourself better and will begin to craft your vision for the future identifying

• Where you want to go
• How you want to get there

Then, you'll learn to take steps to do that. 

As a result you'll experience exceptional growth in your leadership, from the inside - out! Whats more you'll learn to feel good about yourself and the work you do!

Lead with YOUR Strength of Character - Leverage Your Leadership Potential

November 2024 - April 2025
Join this transformative 6-month training experience and feel more empowered in your nonprofit leadership role. ​

If you need to apply for funding for this course, I can help you with your application process by providing you with program-specific information for your application.

** Not sure if the course is right for you and want to as me some questions? 
​Message me and we can arrange a time to chat and I'll answer all your questions!

$3500  CAD

Secure Your Spot Today!

Components of the training

1-1 COACHING: 
Each month, you will have 45 minutes of 1-1 coaching. 

GROUP COACHING CALL: 
Each month, you will be involved in one 55-minute group call.

MODULES & LESSONS: 
Each month, you will have a new video lesson and worksheet to guide your character development journey. These lessons will help you further understand character traits and how to grow and develop them in yourself. This portion will take anywhere from 1 to 2 hours per month, depending on your learning style.

STRENGTHS ASSESSMENTS: 
You’ll dive into two amazing assessments: the CliftonStrengths and the VIA Character Strengths. These tools will help you uncover your unique talents and core virtues, setting you on the path to becoming a character-driven leader. By understanding and embracing your strengths, you'll gain the clarity and authenticity needed to tackle challenges, nurture meaningful relationships, and pursue your work purposefully and passionately. 
If you’ve already completed these assessments, this will be an opportunity to deepen your learning and apply your strengths.

ACCESS TO THE MEMBERSHIP:
Participants in the program will have access to The Training Library for six months. I’ll frequently reference courses in there if you want to deepen your knowledge of anything we cover. 

TIME COMMITMENT:
Expect to commit about 4 hours monthly to developing your leadership character.

Dates for sessions

Group Calls with Kathy

Nov 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MST
Dec 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MST
Jan 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MST
Feb 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MST
Mar 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MDT
Apr 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, MDT

1-1 Coaching Calls with Kathy

Your monthly calls will be able to be scheduled via my scheduling link or directly with me at a time that is convenient for you.
You will have six 1-1 coaching calls. 

Peer to Peer Calls

Your monthly peer to peer calls will be scheduled amongst yourself.
I will not be on these calls. 

Lead with YOUR Strength of Character - LeverageYour Leadership Potential

November 2024 - April 2025
Join this transformative 6-month training experience and feel more empowered in your nonprofit leadership role. ​

If you need to apply for funding for this course, I can help you with your application process by providing you with program-specific information for your application.

$3500  CAD

** Not sure if the course is right for you and want to as me some questions? 
​Message me and we can arrange a time to chat and I'll answer all your questions!

Secure Your Spot Today!