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Academic Career and Leadership Development
For Professors, Higher Education Leaders, & Physicians
Leader Academic offers individual coaching, on-campus and virtual workshops, and coaching & mentoring groups for academics across the span of their careers. Since 2002 we have supported faculty members, physicians, chairs, deans, and other academic leaders to:
- Get more writing done
- Lead successfully
- Negotiate for raises and other resources
- Manage difficult personalities
- Preserve time for your personal life
- Support best practices in hiring & promotion
- Foster cultures of collaboration
- Delegate effectively
- Navigate departmental politics
- Advance innovative pedagogy
- Take time to recharge
- Survive and thrive as an “only” or one of very few
- And much more, all while staying true to your values
Individual Coaching
Professors
Professors face a unique set of challenges – managing competing demands on your time, navigating departmental politics, and working out sometimes fraught relationships with your co-authors, students, and staff. [Learn more]
Academic Leaders
Academic Leaders who want to excel must effectively delegate, influence, and motivate a range of stakeholders, including many over whom you have limited authority. [Learn more]
Physicians
Physicians in Academic Medicine face the pressure of conducting research, publishing, and keeping grants and teams funded, all while staying up to date on your clinical skills and new developments in your areas of specialty. [Learn more]
The Coach’s Guide for Women Professors
Read cover to cover or dip into as you encounter concerns about time management; your authority and influence; work/life integration; and more.
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Bring Your Whole Self
We are dedicated to our clients’ complete well-being
- Family and/or personal life
- Physical wellness
- Values & passions
- Mindfulness or spiritual practice
- Emotional health
- Sense of community
- Identity as a change agent, artist, or public intellectual
- Ambitions within and beyond academia
Testimonials
“Rena Seltzer’s workshops are perennial favorites with Yale faculty. Workshop alumni get more writing done, have more control over their schedules, and feel increased confidence in their leadership skills. Rena has also served as a coach for a number of Yale faculty leaders. Here as well, her work has been transformative.”
– Tamar Szabó Gendler,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Yale University
“I would not have gotten tenure without Rena Seltzer’s skillful coaching. If you can find a way to work with her as a coach, do it! But if you can’t, read her book at least twice. It has all the life and career hacks every academic (male and female!) needs.”
– Dolly Chugh,
Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor,
New York University
“I have solicited feedback from everyone and the comments were uniformly glowing; with terms such as excellent. Outstanding and fabulous! I should note that the group is not always so positive!”
– Ivy League Professional School Dean,
following a workshop with his leadership team