Private Coaching For Educators

Address Key Challenges that Impact Your Professional Life

Are you struggling to find clarity in your career, or don’t know which path to take when making important decisions?
Do you have a colleague or manager who’s difficult to mesh with, feel stuck in your career or have something happening in your personal life that’s making it difficult to stay on top of your professional role?

This empowering one-on-one program allows you to take time to address key challenges and issues that are important for you and impact on your professional life.

If you’re facing difficulties or just need support in your thinking you’re certainly not alone. Genuine challenges exist for all of us from time to time. Perhaps you’re facing difficulties with a colleague or manager, are struggling to progress, feel unsupported, or just overwhelmed by school/life demands. We’re here to provide the non- judgemental support, time, and resources you need to explore your thinking and feel re-energised in your career.

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Program Information

Our private coaching is tailor-made to your personal situation and is best suited to peer coaches, leadership staff, classroom teachers, specialist teachers, and support staff.

During your one-on-one sessions, you’ll learn how to:

  • Become unstuck, and find clarity in your work
  • Examine and reshape your thinking so you can make decisions and take action to overcome your difficulties
  • Feel energised in confronting people with confidence
  • Develop a healthier integration between work and play
  • Gain clear personal insights into what’s needed to get the most out of your role, and
  • Feel less alone in your uncertainty and difficulties.

Program Options

We offer three coaching options

  • A tailored program where you choose the quantity of sessions
  • A six-month program consisting of six sessions each lasting one hour
  • A twelve-month program comprising 12 sessions broken up into one hour blocks.

Finding the right support, program and approach for educators is often difficult. Make the most of our free consultation call to explore ways we can support you in reaching your unique professional learning needs.

What You'll Learn

Find Your Path

Become unstuck, and find clarity in your work.

Get Clarity

Gain clear personal insights into what’s needed to get the most out of your role.

Overcome Difficulties

Examine and reshape your thinking so you can make decisions and take action.

Find Balance

Develop a healthier integration between work and play.

Be In Control

Feel energised in confronting people with confidence.

Feel Supported

Feel less alone in your uncertainty and difficulties.

Program Facilitators

Gavin Grift

Through his keynotes, seminars, and coaching services, Gavin connects with national and international audiences on how to cultivate authentic collaboration, build success in others and genuinely commit to reflective practice.

Gavin serves as a Training Associate for Thinking Collaborative and delivers the Cognitive Coaching® eight day seminar to educators globally. He’s also a best-selling author, with nine educational books under his belt, including Teachers As Architects of Learning, Five Ways of Being and Transformative Talk.

Heather De Blasio

Heather De Blasio is an author, a speaker, facilitator, mentor and coach with over 20 years of leadership experience at different levels and settings. She has spent a lifetime committed to growing others and refusing to put limits on what they might achieve.

An engaging speaker, Heather has delivered key-note presentations and workshops about leadership, team development and assessment at state, national and international conferences, including the Australian Council of Educational Leadership, Australian College of Educators, International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, uLead and the International Conference on Thinking.

Heather is co-author of the bestselling book, Five Ways of Being (Danvers, De Blasio & Grift, 2020), Mastering Meetings That Matter (Grift, Sloper, De Blasio, in print) and a contributing author to the second edition of Assessment for Teaching (Griffin ed., 2017).

A highly sought-after professional learning leader, Heather is renowned for her unique ability to authentically develop the leadership capacity of others. She works with leaders, directors and leadership teams across sectors and regions in Australia and internationally. In addition to her executive leadership work, Heather also delivers selected programs with Grift Education, and currently serves in a part-time capacity as the Director of Leadership and Human Potential at Wilderness School in Adelaide, South Australia.