Turn Up Your Brilliance
Rediscover Clarity, Passion, and Purpose
Online coaching for academics, creatives, and change-ready people everywhere
Remember the passion?
Take yourself back to a moment when your work took flight and your spirit soared – your talent, training, and passion perfectly aligned toward your clear and inspired purpose.
That was an exhilarating feeling – your mind was firing, your heart was full, and you knew without a doubt that you were meant to ignite this excitement in others through your publications, presentations, and teaching.
The spark is gone.
Somehow, that bold, brilliant trajectory has become a foggy trail, and that ball of energy reduced to an occasional spark.
You have tried to reconnect to your source, but nothing seems to take.
Some of your friends and colleagues tell you to learn to live with it until retirement. That is not what you want.
You have given it your all (and then some)…
You have tried to “earn” your way back to that place of discovery by burning the midnight oil and the candle at both ends.
Research more.
Publish more.
Exhibit More.
Teach more.
Mentor more.
Perform more.
Sit on every committee.
You do peer reviews into the night.
Whatever the job demands, and more, you are hopeful that each effort is moving you toward the career you envisioned. Or at least toward promotion. Or a merit raise (if there is one this year—or next).
Your work is praised in your field.
You get excellent teaching reviews.
Those long nights and thousands of cups of coffee seem to have paid off, yet you feel weighed down, unable to soar, and not sure what direction you would fly even if you could get off the ground again.
You want clarity. You want choices.
You are willing to dig deep, tap into your strengths, and make changes that will bring your work back into alignment with your values, passions, and purpose.
You are ready, and you are capable – but this is a LOT.
Or maybe things aren’t bad at all.
But you think they could be even better.
You know they could be even better. But you aren’t sure what “better” is or how to make “better” happen.
It’s time to ask “what’s next?” and to move toward that vision.
Enter Heather…
Let me start with some good news: you have all the answers to finding the fulfillment you seek.
The key is engaging in skillful questioning that brings your answers to light.
Together, we will clarify what you truly desire and collaboratively develop action plans to move you toward your vision.
Your process will unfold in a series of confidential, compassionate, nonjudgmental conversations in which your unique desires and decisions will become your plan of action.
Your passion is your purpose.
Let’s chart your way back to both.
The first small step is easy.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation to talk about your vision for your life and how coaching can help you achieve it.
Hi, I’m Heather.
I create spaces for people to talk openly about what they want in their lives and collaborate on achievable ways to get as much of it as possible.
Coaching is similar to a laboratory, where you can examine your life closely, experiment with new ideas and approaches to living it, and make more effective decisions based on the solid knowledge you have acquired.
While I coach people from all walks of life, my special expertise is working with academics and creatives in institutional work settings who feel disconnected from the deep sense of purpose, excitement, and fulfillment that initially inspired them to join their field. As a historian, author, journal editor, documentary filmmaker, and on-again, off-again museum exhibition planner, I know the terrain of academic and cultural institutions.
Coaching is not magic, and it will not make all your dreams come true. But it will give you the power of knowledge, insight, tools, and support that you need to bring more of what you want into your life and to minimize the impact of the things that drag you down.
And wow, does that feel wonderful!
What I Offer
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Coaching for Writing
and Creative Projects
Online Life Coaching
for Change
Take the first step.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation to talk about what you
want to create in your work and your life.
The sooner you invest in yourself, the sooner you reap the benefits that you deserve.