“Can I work with you forever?”
— Assistant Professor of Communications
Let’s discuss a particular project, or have regular meetings to enhance your writing productivity, joy, and momentum.
Most academics I’ve coached begin this process by consulting about specific writing challenges. We often move toward coaching as a holistic approach to your larger scholarly and daily life. Those of us who don’t conform to dominant norms or have dominant identities in academia often experience a cumulative negative impact on our ability to trust ourselves.
Coaching is a process of uncovering, trusting, and reasserting that voice.
What Are Typical Coaching Client Questions?
Here are common questions that spark a coaching journey:
I’m feeling stuck in my writing. What do I do?
I’m overwhelmed by my projects.
I used to have such a good writing groove. How do I get back there?
I feel like such an [insert negative word] writer. How do I “fix” this?
I’m ready for a new chapter in my life. What are some steps I might take to explore that?
I want to get ready for tenure and promotion. Help!
What’s it like to leave a tenured position but still be an active scholar?
I’ve recently found out that I’m autistic. What are concrete ways to navigate this in my writing and the workplace?
I’m going on a sabbatical or research leave! How can I prepare?
What Do You Bring to the Table, Rose?
You can read more about my scholarly background as a tenured professor and chair here. Since becoming an independent scholar, editor, and coach in 2019, I’ve coached numerous graduate students and professors in their scholarly journeys.
I’m also a fiction writer, full-time traveler, house-sitter, and now an honorary research fellow in the UK with a scholarly book under review. I continue to work with Professor Angelique M. Davis on presenting our racial gaslighting workshop (to be a book soon), and enjoy supporting writers through Strengths Coaching, individual one-on-one coaching, and recording my weekly Monday Writing Sprinter podcast.
Health is now my top priority, so I work much less than I did as a professor and move my body much more. And I work with wonderful people like you.
In case you think that everyone I coach is leaving their jobs, that is definitely not the case! We seek the place that lights you up, which means becoming more of yourself and shifting priorities where you’re at right now.
Coaching and Consulting Inspiration
I’m also a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach.
