Leadership Coaching
Leadership Strategy & Advisement
At Leverage to Lead, our aim is to coach leaders toward the most authentic version of their future selves. We use a strengths-based approach that helps leaders combine their substantial skills and expertise with the qualities that make them stand out, and then leverage their difference for unlimited career success.
This process enables you to build clarity and a strategy that helps manage your future with anticipation rather than apprehension and to create a plan to navigate through uncertain times.
We help leaders build a career narrative that conveys their value, and help you:
- Strategically navigate your socialization and liberation (agency). We illustrate the impact of socialization on your identity, along with the strengths that stem from your identity despite and because of your socialization.
- Gain and leverage hope, to build capacity to fail, learn, and excel.
- Manage and navigate crises and organizational change.
- Creatively build practical remedies and antidotes to manage the challenges of our socialization as you explore and navigate your agency.
- Build a narrative that supports the vision of the person you are becoming.
- Enhance self-compassion and empathy by gently holding your humanity and the humanity of others.
Human-Centered Practices for Executives and Leaders
We champion your growth and ambitions as you build autonomy and creativity—the keys to a truly fulfilling career. We help you fully understand and present your value, align with your career goals, and match with the opportunity or company where you will thrive. We can help you:
- Expand Human-Centered Practices to understand the issues around difference, racism, and systemic oppression.
- Build your inner agility to interrupt patterns of discrimination and bias.
- Leverage the values, imagination, and creativity that change structures, rules, philosophies, and assumptions.
- Practice equity-focused conversations to give voice to those with less power, build trust through vulnerability, and create shared purpose.
Jennifer McClanahan is a trusted strategic advisor to leaders and organizations. She supports leaders and teams in building systems and structures that create healthy work cultures. She invests in practicing and sharing Human-Centered Practices to help organizations clarify, operationalize, and live their values.
MJ Mathis helps leaders transition into new positions with intention and compassion so they can co-create high-functioning and values-centered teams. Combining big-picture vision and strategy with human-centered practices and supportive tools, MJ helps new and seasoned leaders build workplace cultures where trust, vulnerability, and authenticity help us all do our best work.
Kim Ho helps HR specialists use Human-Centered Practices to support their people and build thriving cultures. Kim partners with HR leaders and teams to build clear and supportive structures and practices that prioritize our humanity and our relationships. These include equitable hiring processes, compensation philosophies, performance management systems, onboarding for belonging, and more.
“I loved one-on-one processing sessions with MJ. We started every conversation acknowledging that this is long-term work and that we wouldn’t solve everything in one session. But by the end of the hour, she had taken some very complex issues and helped me move forward.
She challenged me to see where I did and didn’t have the power to make a change, and to be vulnerable in expressing what I need. Going forward, I plan to be an example of what I’ve learned, to be the change myself, and to share with others that if you see the human side first, we can do great work together.”
Monthly Mentoring
As partners in achieving your goal, each month you will receive the support, ideas, and strategies to make the decisions that align with the values of equity and inclusion. On a month-to-month basis, we will cultivate and implement the strategy, practices, and habits that move your career forward. We’ll continue to partner as you stretch towards your goals.
What all coaching clients receive each month
Two (2) Strategy and Implementation Sessions.
Each month, you join two 60-minute private calls with your coach. These pre-scheduled strategy sessions are when we work on goals, ideas, and systems to align your next steps with your vision and drive. We talk, listen, strategize, and get clear on the results you want to achieve.
Reach Out coaching calls for support to help when the unexpected happens.
These coaching calls are for moments that cannot wait. As you start getting clear and making changes, you may experience intense challenges. You might find yourself in an unfamiliar situation and need clarity about how to handle it best. Use these calls to get coaching in the moment.
Email access for questions or check-ins.
While we don’t coach via email, we will be available to answer a quick question or check in as needed. We do not provide coaching advice via text messages.