ATTENTION SCHOOL LEADERS:

Lead With Purpose:

Transform Your Leadership, Transform Your School

We help you go from overworked and overwhelmed to confident, competent, and in control.
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Lead With Purpose

Maximize Student Achievement

Rediscover Your Joy

I Know the Struggle is Real, But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

Are you…

Tired of the never-ending responsibilities, paperwork, and multi-tasking that constantly drags you away from the deep work you dream of doing?
Exhausted and overwhelmed, teetering on the edge of burnout?
Discontented with the status quo and frustrated that you aren’t making more headway on your school’s challenges?

Most school leaders never make the impact they want to make because of all the obligations, endless meetings, and repetitive tasks that suck up their time.

If this frustration sounds familiar, don’t waste another school year hoping things will change. Hope is NOT a strategy!

Instead, take control of your life and transform your leadership.

I offer intensive 1-on-1 leadership coaching and small group workshops to help you and your leadership team take courageous action to…

Address your time challenges,
Fulfill your physical and social-emotional needs,
And develop the skills and habits you need to be your best.

After all, a school leader should be able to focus on the big issues that really impact school climate and student learning without having every minute of every day swallowed up by minutia. Let’s work together to get you there!

Your transformational journey is just a click away. Hit the button to schedule a call today.

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Make the Impact You Dream of Making

You were meant for great things. For following your calling to become the best school leader you can be. For bringing to bear the full measure of your God-given gifts to achieve the ideal future for both yourself and your school.

To realize this dream, there are two pathways you must follow. The first pathway leads inward, as you:

Explore your unique strengths and personal values,
Learn to take courageous action and master difficult conversations,
Develop resilience in the face of adversity,
And put your own physical and emotional wellness first

**It’s my firm belief that when you get better, everyone around you gets better!**

That’s why I offer multiple ways for you and your leadership team to develop the crucial skills and habits that will transform your leadership into an unstoppable force.

The second pathway leads outward, as you apply the leadership skills you’ve developed to your school’s policies, procedures, and programs, as well as to all of your workplace relationships. This allows you to:

Prioritize and streamline your work, delegating or systematizing less-important tasks so you can focus on work in your zone of genius
Create a sense of belonging among your teachers and staff through a culture of dignity and shared purpose
Become the “lead learner” in your school, directing the development and implementation of a proven instructional program that sends student achievement soaring

When you do both the critical internal work of transforming your leadership and the urgent external work necessary to transform your school’s culture and classroom instruction, the result is a leadership approach that marries the head and the heart, intellect and emotion.

If you’re ready to start your transformational journey, I offer a variety of programs for school leaders, teachers, and students to take you and your school to the next level:

Transform Your Leadership

1-on-1 personalized leadership coaching to help you develop resilience, clarity, and confidence
My signature program for leadership teams: The CLIMB™ Experience
Life-changing leadership retreats that help you balance your work and life and achieve sustainable success

Transform Your School

Practical, engaging, and empowering workshops for teachers
Motivational, uplifting keynote addresses
Impactful student programs that achieve multiple years of progress in as little as 30 days

Interested? Hit the button to explore your options…

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Hi, I'm Dr. Jenny Severson

I understand what it feels like to struggle with overwhelm and burnout.

When I went into education, I had a passion for teaching and neuroscience and a driving purpose to meaningfully impact student lives and learning.

By my mid 20’s, I had all the outer markers of success that I had dreamed of: local and state awards for teaching, a doctorate in education, and a new role as principal of a K-5 school in Illinois.

By every external measure, I had made it. But inside? Well, that’s another story.

I was constantly overworking and on the brink of overwhelm. My mental and physical health suffered, and I neglected key relationships with friends and family.

Eventually I became a full-time speaker and educational consultant, helping schools around the world implement Social Emotional Learning and neuroscience-based instructional strategies, and they got results like higher attendance and student achievement and decreased disciplinary events. More outward success!

But I had just carried the overwork and overwhelm forward to another arena.

A decade of this constant stress took a serious toll. I was running on empty both emotionally and physically, and I believe it was no coincidence that at this time I contracted breast cancer.

As you can imagine, those were some dark days. Luckily, I was able to heal and recover. More importantly, I realized that I needed to change my life and my approach to my work.

I developed new habits and put in place new routines that allowed me to renew and refocus my life in a way that was sustainable. And I can thankfully report that, while my passion for education never wavered, I now have the mindset and physical and emotional health I need to make an impact without sacrificing myself to do so.

Now I bring my experience and hard-won wisdom to bear to help leaders put in place practices that:

Give them the margin to breathe and think
Develop a motivated team that has their back
Focus their time on the things that matter most

…all without sacrificing their purpose or themselves.

If you’re going down the path toward burnout, I encourage you to just STOP.

Stop overdoing it right now. Stop the relentless putting out of fires. Get laser focused in your zone of genius and rekindle your passion for what brought you to education in the first place.

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