Build the systems your team needs to do meaningful work.

When good teams struggle, it’s rarely about effort.

You and your team are facing productivity challenges and it’s stressing you out! From feeling stretched too thin between overlapping project deadlines to navigating burnout, blurred boundaries, or inconsistent communication, it’s hard to get your work done when you feel overwhelmed. Even teams that genuinely want to collaborate may feel stuck without shared language or tools.

That’s why I design workshops that help people do meaningful work without exhausting themselves.

A Refreshing Approach to Productivity

Most productivity workshops rely on generic tools and ignore real human experiences with knowledge work. I believe we can get more done when we adapt our approaches based on where we’re at now, with an eye on next steps that inspire and connect us.

I’m a researcher, writer, and coach who has lived the challenges my workshop attendees face, and my sessions blend evidence-informed practices with compassion and practicality.

I have popular 60-minute and 90-minute workshops prepared to share with your team, and I also enjoy customizing content to fit contexts for departments, organizations, or cross-functional teams.

Workshops Designed for Your Team’s Needs

Interactive sessions for academics, creative professionals, and organizational teams — each one customized to your group’s needs. Start by choosing a workshop below, or we can build a custom session together.

In the Workplace

Workshops that help teams clarify expectations, streamline priorities, and create sustainable workflows.

• Set Yourself Up for Success: Learn why, when, and how to apply tools to make productivity practices more efficient, with a focus on using prioritization and time blocking to manage distractions and set boundaries.

• Clarify Your Goals and Manage Your Workflow: Discover how to develop goal setting practices to manage workflows on your own and within teams. Workshop attendees will learn practical methods for prioritizing, communicating with colleagues and co-workers, and documenting their work to increase efficiency and contribute to team and company productivity norms.

Note: “Set Yourself Up for Success” and “Clarify Your Goals and Manage Your Workflow” can be offered as a two-part series.

Writing and Research

Support for faculty, graduate students, and research teams navigating long-term writing projects. 

• Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness During Writing Sessions: Having difficulty focusing during writing sessions? In this workshop, we’ll cover common obstacles that derail writing, reading, and research. Attendees will learn productivity tools to help determine appropriate goals, set boundaries around distractions, and make tangible progress in every writing session. We’ll end our time with the opportunity to personalize an approach to a future writing session by applying the tools we cover. 

• Structure as a Path to Sustainability (with Dr. Katy Peplin): Does the blinking cursor on a blank Word doc make your stomach sink? Join =Dr. Katy Peplin of Thrive PhD and me for a one-stop shop for overcoming overwhelm and lighting the way towards completing your next self-directed writing project. After this 4-hour session, you’ll have a personalized productivity plan, a repeatable project template, and deeper clarity on how to structure your days with more compassion and flexibility so you can make progress on your terms. Whether you’re at the very beginning or want to hit refresh without starting from scratch, this workshop is for you! Learn more here.

Personalized Productivity

For individuals who want to build sustainable systems grounded in real capacity and humane expectations.

• How to Personalize Your Productivity Practice: Through defining success in your own terms, you’ll reflect on the ways your productivity utilizes finite personal resources and reconceptualize what it means to “be productive” by identifying your behind-the-scenes labors. Attendees will leave this workshop with a personal productivity plan for making their goals actionable.

• Accomplish Your Goals with Slow Productivity: Learn how to approach your goals with intention instead of overwhelm. We’ll cover Slow Productivity practices like learning when to shift from perfect to good, how to differentiate between goals and stretch goals, how to build in blank space and breaks into your days, how to utilize reflection to shift your approach when you hit an obstacle, and more.

• Identify and Overcome Your Productivity Pitfalls: Progress is never linear and the best-laid writing plans often fall apart – but why? This workshop will help you identify the common productivity pitfalls (distraction, boundaries, overcommitting, multitasking, etc.) that might be your barrier to progress. Attendees will learn approaches for avoiding these pitfalls in the future and for mitigating them when they occur.

• Improve Your Time Management and Productivity Practices: Craving approaches to help maximize your productivity without burning out? In our time together, you’ll learn tools to improve your time management, develop realistic timelines, and increase your focus as you make progress on your scholarly projects. You’ll leave the workshop with next steps you can apply to your current and future schedules and goals.

Creative solutions inspired by my skills as a speaker, academic, writer and Productivity Coach.

I’ve spent years inside the same systems my workshop participants are navigating, and I know how demanding (and sometimes impossible) those systems can feel. That’s why my work is rooted in one belief: we can name that the system is flawed and still find a humane, sustainable way forward. Along the way, others have recognized the value of this approach, too:

• I was solicited to write a chapter for the book Transformative Coaching for Faculty and Staff in Higher Education: Powerful Tools to Address Institutional Challenges.

• My scholarly research on feminist rhetoric and history has been funded by fellowships and featured in podcasts and publications. 

• I’ve led workshops for universities, nonprofits, and creative organizations across the world.

And now you can get one of those workshops, too.

Ready for real tools and sustainable productivity that’ll help your group make meaningful change?