No more nodding along to someone smart at the front of the room & calling it professional development.
I partner with leaders to take professional development from passive learning to transformational experiences.
Coach & Develop Leaders
Drive Engagement
Increase Professional Development ROI
Typical professional development is flawed. And it’s costing you.
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The professional development treats leaders like passive learners - they’re asked to listen, not practice.
The costs? Engagement & impact.
Leaders tune in and out depending on relevancy, this costs program’s engagement and leader’s clarity of how to turn learning to action
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The professional development is comprised of only seminars - no ongoing support from a coaching expert.
The cost? Authentic, real-time growth.
Once the seminar is over, it’s over! There’s no accountability to practice new leadership behaviors or take action is gone, costing long-term change
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The professional development only measures participant satisfaction, not its own influence on leadership competency and impact.
The cost? Clarity & a sense of purpose for leaders & facilitators.
Teams continue to invest time and resources without clarity on a program’s impact. This cost is in their bottom line, their sense of purpose and the program’s impact.
CBC clients don’t wonder if that smart guy at the front of the room is making a difference.
DEVELOP LEADERS
Through 1:1 and group coaching, I support leaders to integrate and apply best practice into their context. What they learn today they can use to lead tomorrow.
DRIVE ENGAGEMENT
I offer a 5-Star planning method which ensures every program session challenges and engages leaders, catalyzes meaningful action and is an experience they keep talking about.
INCREASE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ROI
I support you to align professional development to what’s most important for you. You’ll know your program supports individual growth AND uplifts your vision & mission.
I’m an expert in coaching & adult learning so you don’t have to be.
I know that you’re dedicated to professional development but when you’ve got a plate full of priorities, limited training in adult learning and no time for researching innovation - it’s easy to get stuck in the status quo.
With 15 years of experience as an educator and coach, with a Master’s Degree in Education,
I can:
Tell you what works and what doesn’t
Teach you & your team simple and quick strategies to create better leadership program experiences
Lead coaching initiatives and leadership programs to support your team’s transformation, start to finish.
CBC Partners
Partner Experiences
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"Claire has an uncanny ability to disarm those in the room and immediately create a safe and trusting space, meeting individuals where they are in their journey. Her warmth, care, and holistic approach to development allows those she interacts with to truly be themselves using empathy and grace to engage in meaningful conversations to ground others in their vision and values to allow everyone to reach their full potential."
Charlie Ann Rykwalder, MBA
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Claire was a wonderful partner! Claire's energy and love for coaching and development is infectious. Claire continuously shared new techniques and modeled what those would look like and sound like to implement in my day to day leadership and development of others. She kept our sessions interesting by varying how I learned - coaching, analyzing a recording a program session and active practice.
Alicia Lantz, CFP
Your PD Transformation Plan.
Book your free discovery session
Share your current professional development scope with Claire so she can highlight current strengths and opportunities to grow your impact
Allow me to support you in transforming your professional development
Together we’ll decide how I can best support you: through coaching, program consultation or design and facilitation of professional development.
Experience long-lasting growth
You’ll not only have more engaging professional development, you’ll know how to measure its impact! Feel confident in the value of your work.
A single leader can drastically accelerate or diminish progress.
Professional development is too important to let sit at the bottom of the to-do list.
I know you are the kind of leader who doesn’t just check leadership workshop boxes. You’ll be known for nurturing others’ growth through best-in-class professional development, catalyzing change and fostering community.
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In order to ensure your next professional development launch offers all of this you need to step back and observe what’s most needed, analyze and evaluate how current offerings meet those needs and then reset your plans to drive engagement, develop leaders and improve your program’s ROI.
The problem is that you have limited time and a list of other urgent priorities that would make anyone wonder if transforming your professional development experience is even possible. It feels defeating before you even start.
But with how drastically a single leader can accelerate or diminish workplace culture, efficacy and outcomes - your leadership development is too important let sit on the to-do list until you’ve finally put out enough fires.
You care deeply about ongoing learning and you also know the bottom line: leadership development is important for your organizations’ long-term success, talent retention and workplace culture. That’s why I leverage a 5-step planning method so we can ensure development isn’t just good for individuals, but will drive all leaders toward your organization’s vision and mission.
Here’s how it works:
Start by booking your free discovery session. You’ll share your current professional development goals and offerings. I’ll bring my expertise in adult learning to affirm its strengths and pinpoint areas, that with some adjustment, can have transformative impact.
Once we’ve pinpointed what to work on, we’ll define how I can best be on your team. I can coach you or others, consult, providing direction and guidance to your team, or supplement your program with strategic group coaching.
Your investment in transforming leadership programming will catalyze long-lasting growth in leadership presence and impact that ripple out to uplift your whole organization. I can’t wait to stand by your side and witness it!
So book your free program discovery session now so you can stop wondering if all the time resources you’re putting toward status-quo development is even worth it and start watching your organization transform, one leader at a time.
I show up for your impact.
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I design and lead a small-group coaching arc that couples with a seminar-based leadership development program.
Seminars engage leaders on topics such as networking, influential communication, financial acumen, and managing conflict. Group coaching provides leaders the space to explore how they will integrate and apply learning in their context tomorrow.
Group coaching took this from a leadership program at work to a place where I felt I belonged, I could grow and stretch into myself, and I could get to know other members on a deeply personal level. Those are things that made this a really incredible experience for me. I could chart my own growth and development as a leader and a human in a way I didn't expect at the beginning. The coaching component is so incredible and Claire was the greatest partner to all of us that we could have ever dreamed of in that setting!
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I am a founding coach, collaborating with a team of coaches to provide group and 1:1 coaching to leaders in a seminar-based leadership certificate program.
In group coaching, I ensure leaders create more powerful connections with one another and the content. 1:1 coaching offers the space for individual assessment debrief and exploration of how to put takeaways into action in their context.
“My coach was excellent. I was impressed with how insightful she was and able to see challenges as opportunities. I was most skeptical about the group sessions and individual coaching, but I think this was valuable to the course and ultimately helped solidify the lessons I was learning along the way.”
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I coach two PhD researchers collaborating in execution of a 5-year longitudinal study funded by a USDA Grant (Total Award >$7M)
I blend 1:1 coaching and dyad coaching so each leader has the space to explore their unique strengths and goals, as well as their their dynamic and presence as a dyad. Beyond coaching, I observe team meeting spaces to prompt deeper reflection on team interaction.
We focused on these Key Focus Areas for Coaching (as a starting point):
Case studies that can have broader application
Leveraging our complementary strengths to share leadership role
Empower team to work at their individual top/full capacity
Dealing with requests from team for “things” we don’t really want to give – when their needs don’t align with our preferences (e.g., requests that feel micromanage-y, hard deadlines)
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I designed a professional development series for faculty to bridge institutional goals into their department culture, communication and shared expectations.
"Claire has an uncanny ability to disarm those in the room and immediately create a safe and trusting space, meeting individuals where they are in their journey. Her warmth, care, and holistic approach to development allows those she interacts with to truly be themselves using empathy and grace to engage in meaningful conversations to ground others in their vision and values to allow everyone to reach their full potential."
