The Engaged Leader Series

Enhance your leadership goals and make change happen over 12 weeks.

Do you want to define your own style and approach? 

What would learning how to amplify your voice in a chorus of strong personalities give you and your career?

How are you ensuring that you give your all without burning yourself out?

Are you losing focus and impact trying to be everything for everyone?

Learn how to succeed as an engaged leader and make your work more fulfilling. Join other people in leadership positions and dedicate time to your own professional development.

You love your job. You work hard. You care about healthy people, environments, and communities. Your passion drives you. And sometimes it drives you too hard. While you are a striver and a thriver, you could use a support team of peers with whom you can let down your guard and talk through your challenges. A group where you can grow personally and professionally and gain clarity, confidence, and connection.

Does this describe you?

  • Do you want to Learn how to succeed as a leader?

  • Start thinking and working more strategically?

  • Stop being overly critical of yourself?

  • Learn how to lead a high performance team effectively?

  • Overcome fear of failure and judgment?

  • Stop feeling stuck in the same place professionally?

This is a 12-week series with 6 live virtual sessions and 4 partner practice sessions. Plus 3 one on one coaching sessions with Rachel. You will receive leadership training, skill building, peer support, and personalized coaching.

Join this group! Become an Engaged Leader!

Few people get the opportunity to workshop their style as a leader. In this hands-on, interactive series, you’ll define your leadership style and values, learn how to lead with empathy and compassion, and practice developing authentic engaged relationships.

Give yourself the gift of growth.

Invest in YOU.

This is for you if you are:

  • Actively leading a team, organization, coalition or are in a position of influence

  • Have a minimum of 5 years of work experience

  • Committed to social or environmental change and making a difference

  • Ready to learn new skills and proven leadership methods

  • Ready to invest in your growth as a way to lead others effectively

During our time you will:

  • Identify your leadership style

  • Develop a Network

  • Practice deep listening and effective communication

  • Gain Insight from the group wisdom

  • Grow your confidence as you mentor others

Engaged Leader Testimonials

“After participating in the Engaged Leader Series, I feel like it opened up some space for playfulness in my work life. I would highly recommend Rachel for Leadership Development as she approached leadership by addressing the underlying emotional reasons that make leadership difficult and created a supportive space within the group”

— Anna Semple, Missoula City County Health Department

“I feel more confident in my leadership abilities and have more “go-to” skills that will help me and the team go in the right direction. I enjoyed Rachel’s enthusiasm and extensive resources and would definitely recommend her because she understand leadership and people and knows how to get people to talk honestly”

— Catherine Wightman, Coordinator,  Northern Great Plains Joint Venture

“I have a relatively new leadership role and after the leadership workshops with Rachel, I got some new resources, articles and tools to better frame and understand leadership and build skills”

— Montana James, Deputy Director Missoula City Community Development

What to expect from the Engaged Leadership Series?

Rooted in proven, evidence-based leadership development practices, this series offers the most important takeaways from Rachel’s 25 years of experience as a consultant and licensed clinical social worker. Learn emotional intelligence, behavioral science, and neuroscience in an experiential interactive process that will help you develop your own style and bring out the best in others. 

The value we co-create:

  1. Self-knowledge and specific goals. You’ll meet one-on-one with Rachel for a personal coaching session to explore your vision for leadership, possible barriers, and ways to overcome them. Then you’ll work individually and with the group to create 1–2 focused goals for our time together.

  2. Support and accountability. Three months of LIVE peer group sessions are your regular space to workshop challenges, share your wins, face your fears, learn new skills, and receive feedback. As facilitated by Rachel, you gain a personal think tank of advisors and champions to transform what you do and how you do it.

  3. A cheerleader in your corner. You have two more one-on-one coaching sessions and access to Rachel throughout the series as a resource to achieve your identified goals. Whenever you try something new or simply feel vulnerable, she’s there for you!

  4. Partnership and practice. Between group and coaching sessions, you get a leadership partner to talk through what you’ve learned and practice new skills with one another.

You will have online access to recordings of all group sessions, plus the resources, tools, and best practices we cover. That way, you can be fully present rather than feverishly taking notes. These resources are yours for life!

What will you learn?

  • Identifying your leadership style

  • Learning how to lead with your values

  • Mentoring your best team

  • Engaging others with empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence

  • Listening to motivate and promote change

  • Navigating the latest challenges of virtual teams, work-life balance, stressed workforces, and more

What’s the investment?

The Engaged Leadership Series is valued at $9,000.

This is what you get:

  • 3 individual coaching sessions with Rachel to set your goals and vision for leadership (value = $1,200)

  • Six 1.5 - 2 hour facilitated training and peer-coaching sessions over 6 weeks (value = $4,200)

  • Rachel on call for 12 weeks (value = $2,000)

  • 4 practice sessions with a peer using guided materials developed by Rachel

  • Lifetime access to Engaged Leader Series resources, tools, best practices, and recordings (value = $1,000)

  • Your own personal support team to help you go for your goals (priceless!)

Fee Structure

Accessible Rate: $2,200

A reduced rate for those who are financially stable, but for whom paying my standard rates would exhaust your budget or make meeting basic needs difficult.

Standard Rate: $3,200

My standard price for this work. You can comfortably pay this price.

Wealth-sharing Rate: $4,200

When you choose this rate, you are directly contributing to building a greater community of leaders by sponsoring a radical sliding scale spot. You are choosing this because you believe we need a diversity of more effective leaders for ourselves, our teams, and our world.

I highly encourage you to ask your organization for professional development funds to invest in your leadership.

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Rachel is an experienced facilitator in leadership, team dynamics and strategic growth. For the past 25 years she has refined her knowledge and skills to assist individuals, teams and organizations to create positive change. She successfully has helped organizations improve their outcomes, teams work together more effectively and empowered individuals to discover their unique leadership paths by asking the right questions and listening deeply. What sets her apart most distinctly is her experience as a licensed clinical social worker, which has left an indelible imprint on her approach with all people.

Rachel holds a unique combination of Master degrees. An MS in Environmental Education from Antioch New England Graduate school and an MSW from the University of Montana. She has a decade of training as a Prosocial Facilitator, Acceptance and Commitment Training coach, has a certificate of facilitation and training from Marlboro College and has trained under Steven Hayes, Ph.D, Paul Atkins, Ph.D and Dennis Tirch, Ph.D all experts in personal and organizational development.