What will you learn?

Prepare for your next step

If you have seen success as a senior gift officer or a director development, you might be facing one of two hurdles when you consider your future.  You know what you want, but you struggle with how to get there. Or more challenging, you sense it’s time for a change, but don’t know what you want.  In either case, coaching can help you speed up your professional growth and put you on a more secure path to higher levels of responsibility. 

Know your strengths, accomplishments, and values

The first step is prompting you to assess your accomplishments and articulate your aspirations.  Through a set of structured conversations, we will pinpoint what has made you successful and how you can continue to leverage your strengths.  We will also think critically about your organization and your key relationships.  Together, we can map out what you need from your role and your organization to ensure that you are growing, fully engaged, and recognized for your contributions. 

Navigate more intentionally

On one hand I will help you build awareness and purposeful intention to manage your career.  On the other I will help you execute.  Imagine doing the same type of thoughtful strategy development for your key professional relationships as you do your top prospects.  We will work on ways for you to position yourself and your team with your organization’s key decision-makers to maximize your results and lay the groundwork for your future achievements.  We will also find ways to work around the inevitable obstacles. 

 Level up your productivity

Coaching can be about your business too. I will share with you any insight, strategy, or tool I have used to build successful major and principal gift fundraising programs in my twenty-plus year career at the University of Chicago.  I want to make sure you are continuing to raise as much money as possible wherever you might be in your career.  You can rely on me as your partner to develop and execute fundraising plans, refine solicitation strategies for your top prospects, manage key internal partners, and lead your team. 

How does coaching work?