Lead the change you believe in…
without losing yourself along the way.
Coaching, leadership development, and healing-centered practices for liberatory changemakers.
WHY COACHING
You care about changing the world. But it’s not easy.
You care deeply about justice, equity, and the possibility of a better world. But working for change inside institutions (and within the horrors realities of the current world) is complicated.
You're navigating resistance, balancing vision with reality, and trying to lead in ways that stay aligned with your values.
It can feel lonely, exhausting, messy, or unclear what the next step should be… even when you’re the one everyone else is looking to for guidance.
Hey, you don’t have to do this all on your own.
So if you’ve been asking yourself:
How do I stay aligned with my values inside systems that resist change?
How do I lead without burning out?
How do I trust my voice and leadership more fully?
Then you're exactly the kind of person this work is for.
About Me
Hi, I’m Beth
I help changemakers create more peace, purpose, justice, belonging, and liberation in their personal and professional worlds. Like you, I understand the weight of trying to be a catalyst for good.
For more than two decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of social justice, leadership, healing, and education: first as a professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and now as a coach, facilitator, and practitioner of embodiment-based approaches.
Along the way, I’ve seen something again and again:
People doing important justice work often carry enormous responsibility, all while navigating institutions that don’t always support the change they’re trying to create.
I’ve worked as a change leader within higher education for over twenty years. I started idealistically and passionately. Now I’m…..less idealistic. After years of watching meaningful change stall, get watered down, or unravel with leadership shifts, that kind of clarity changed me.
And yet.
In that time, I’ve also supported hundreds of young leaders to find their voice. I’ve partnered with justice-oriented colleagues on important change initiatives that made a difference. And I’ve become more nuanced in my understanding of people, social justice issues, and the change process.
I know the pull of disillusionment. The push to go along with the status quo.
After years of working for change, relying too heavily on intellect, analysis, and strategy, I realized that I needed to incorporate more of our embodied experience: energetic, heart-centered, relational. THAT is where the deep wisdom we need in this time lies.
My work is about creating space and support
…to reconnect with your values.
…to find levity, humor, and hope.
…to think clearly about the challenges you’re facing.
…to lead in ways that feel aligned, sustainable, and deeply human.
Because the work of changing the world is a lot to carry. And you are worthy of being held, too.
P.S.
I am...
A budding mosaic artist, finding beauty and pattern in broken fragments
A proud human to two adorable kitties who keep me grounded (when they aren’t clawing the furniture)
An author of three books (well, one is a second edition that I completely rewrote… overachiever energy)
A recovering perfectionist
A lifelong learner
A lover of water (first discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York, now cherished among Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes) and of mountains, thanks to the Colorado Rockies
A big fan of Japan! I lived there for over a year, teaching English
A lover of flowers, especially California poppies, delphiniums, and ornamental grasses
A yoga teacher and devoted practitioner
A creator. I made an interactive fairy garden where neighborhood kids played, imagined, and added their own magical creatures
…and a believer in small, meaningful moments that create real magic and transformation.
SERVICES
Ways we can work together
There are many entry points into this work. Wherever you’re beginning from, these offerings are designed to support justice-driven people who want to live and lead with integrity, courage, and sustainability.
Together we explore the questions that matter most:
How do I lead in ways that stay aligned with my values?
How do I maintain vision and well-being amidst pushback?
How do I sustain myself while doing work that can feel overwhelming?
How do I trust my voice and step more fully into my leadership?
Our work may draw from reflective dialogue, somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, and collaborative strategic thinking: all grounded in the belief that you already hold profound wisdom about your path.
My role is to help you access it.
Coaching
One-on-one support for changemakers navigating leadership, purpose, and the complexity of justice work.
Leadership, especially leadership rooted in social change, can feel isolating. You may be holding difficult decisions, navigating institutional resistance, or simply trying to stay aligned with your values while doing work that matters deeply to you.
Coaching creates a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your inner clarity.
The Leadership Challenge
In addition to feminist and liberatory leadership approaches, I am also certified to facilitate workshops based on The Leadership Challenge: a widely respected, research-based leadership framework developed by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.
This model focuses on five core leadership practices that help individuals and teams lead with greater clarity, courage, collaboration, and heart.
The Leadership Challenge can support both personal leadership development (“leader of self”) and organizational leadership growth across communities, educational spaces, and workplaces.
Together we might explore:
feminist and liberatory leadership practices
navigating resistance and conflict in change work
cultivating cultures of belonging and care
supporting leaders within complex and evolving systems
Each engagement is designed collaboratively to meet the unique needs of your team, community, or organization.
Truly sustainable change happens not only through policies and strategies, but through the ways people learn to relate to one another.
Leadership Development
Workshops, trainings, and facilitated conversations for organizations committed to meaningful change.
Many organizations genuinely want to create cultures of justice, belonging, and equity, but translating those values into daily practices can be challenging.
Through workshops, retreats, and leadership programs, I help teams explore what it means to lead in ways that are both strategic and deeply human.
Healing & Integration
Supporting the inner work that makes sustainable leadership possible.
Justice work is deeply personal.
Many of us carry the impacts of burnout, systemic harm, and generations of disconnection, even as we continue striving to create change. We are holding a lot.
Healing-centered work creates space to reconnect with the body, imagination, and deeper sources of wisdom that help sustain our lives and leadership.
These sessions may incorporate practices such as:
somatic awareness, yoga, and embodiment
mindfulness and contemplative reflection
expressive and creative practices
grief-tending and emotional integration
counselling services (coming soon)
This is a place to cultivate the inner resilience and clarity needed to stay engaged with your passion and purpose with compassion, courage, and wholeness.
My APPROACH
We do things a little differently around here
Many leadership spaces focus only on strategy, but justice work asks more from us. It asks us to examine how we show up in the world: in our bodies, our relationships, and our leadership.
My work integrates:
feminist and social justice frameworks
mindfulness, somatics, and embodiment practices
transformational coaching
creative and healing modalities
transformational and embodied leadership
Because the work of creating change needs to be effective, nourishing, and sustainable.
Let’s Connect
Ready for support?
If you’re navigating the complexity of leadership and social change, you don’t have to do it alone.
Whether you’re seeking coaching, leadership development for your organization, or space for deeper reflection and healing, I’d love to connect.
