Professors

Productive Writing
Tenure, Promotion, & the Academic Job Market
Work/Life Integration
Leadership

Professors face a unique set of challenges. With competing demands on your time, it can be difficult to give research and writing the attention they need. While colleagues may be smart and interesting, they are also all-too-human people with whom you must work out any number of issues. Parents are often raising young children at the same time they are under pressure to be maximally productive to achieve tenure and promotion. If you are Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, female, and/or a person of color or a member of another historically minoritized group, then you may also be dealing with the conscious or unconscious biases of your students, colleagues, and administrators.

If you feel too busy, overwhelmed, unproductive, or undervalued, that is not just the way it is or the way it has to be.

In coaching, we support professors to make transformative changes and become more productive, gain control over their time, plan short- and long-term goals, and reconnect with their passion for their work, while also living full and healthy personal lives.

We invite you to schedule a free twenty-minute consultation to learn how we can help you.

• Move more quickly from first draft to publication
• Have a sense of control over your time

• Maintain your own writing voice and values
• Write even during busy teaching semesters

• Handle co-author relationships with greater ease
• Set work aside at the end of the day

• Understand both the formal and informal requirements for promotion in your department and institution
• Build and maintain robust professional networks

• Become nationally and internationally known as an expert in your area
• Negotiate effectively for salary, preferred scheduling, and other resources you need to be successful

• Effectively navigate departmental and institutional politics
• Know when to say “yes” and when to say “no” to invitations and requests

– Professor and parent preparing to go up for tenure

“I took your advice and asked for everything I wanted, and the Dean said yes!”

– Faculty member at a prominent East Coast university

• Experience less conflict between family and career
• Schedule in time for fitness and outside interests

• Cultivate connections with friends and/or potential partners
• Leave work stresses at the office

• Engage in communities that support all of who you are, both within and outside of academia

• Strengthen your professional presence and voice
• Establish buy-in for your ideas and initiatives
• Delegate effectively

• Implement inclusive pedagogy
• Build a team of dedicated workers
• Foster cultures of inclusion

• Successfully navigate difficult work relationships
• Build alliances across departments and organizations

– Hiring committee chair

“It was a lot of work, but I’m so glad we created the conference series that supports women in our field. Participants describe it with words like ‘special,’ and ‘magical.’ It is really meaningful to me. I feel so great that I made this happen.”

– Faculty member in a field that is predominantly male