The Empowered Principal® Podcast

Listen in this week as my guest Wendy Cohen shares what she’s discovered about the art of feedback, evaluation, and teacher observation. She’s transformed her experience from one of stress and dread …

This week, I'm letting you in on my experience of making the decision to leave school leadership. I’m showing you why you might be feeling trapped and unhappy, how to be honest with yourself as you n…

Discover how to create a school climate of pride, motivation, and certainty. I’m diving into what you are making test scores mean about you and your career, how to take back your mental and emotional…

The topic of teacher buy-in comes up a lot in my coaching work, and this week, I have a story that comes directly from one of my clients that I’m using for context so you can apply what I’m sharing t…

Listen in this week as I share my tips for making staffing decisions stress-free. I know it sounds impossible right now, but you’ll discover why it could be a blessing to have teachers resign, how to…

Discover how to start creating demand as a school leader to make more money! I’m showing you what will make you an in-demand principal, how this is the gateway to more of everything you want, and the…

Tune in this week to discover how to start asking for what you want. I’m sharing why we are so reluctant to just ask for what we want, and I’m giving you my tips for facing the discomfort and asking …

Join me this week as I invite you to embrace the after-break blues, and show you why doing so is crucial. And once you’ve recognized that this phase is completely normal, I’m offering the first steps…

Tune in this week if you’re a school leader who has ever been a victim of a hater, or group of haters. This episode is going to be so useful, whether you’re going through this right now, you’ve been …

Spring is a busy time for testing, so tune in this week to discover how to approach raising test scores even if it feels like you’re behind right now. I’m sharing how to start thinking differently so…

Discover how to start deciding ahead of time what you’re going to create, and how doing so will allow you to achieve some truly remarkable things. I’m sharing where my clients have seen success using…

Discover why so much of what holds us back boils down to a belief in the impossible. I’m showing you how we’ve been trained to use past data to guide what we think is possible for us, and why we have…

Our human brains love to live in the world of all-or-none, telling us we simply can’t have it all. This thinking is constantly reinforced throughout our lifetimes, so of course, we come to believe li…

This week, I invite you to fear no number when you’re setting goals for this year. I’m showing you why we tend to fear numbers as a measure of progress, and why they’re actually our friends that we w…

Tune in this week to sign off on an interesting year. We’re discussing all the things you’re leaving behind in 2021, what you’re bringing into 2022, and I’m sharing all of the amazingness that is hap…

Discover exactly what’s going on in your brain when somebody is bugging you, and what you can do about it. Your mind might not like hearing what’s responsible for the negative attention you’re paying…

If you know you’re going to struggle to make it through the holiday break without feeling the itch to do some work, this episode is for you. I’m walking you through how I personally developed a way f…

This week, discover how to create real balance for yourself. I’m sharing where the belief that you are currently lacking balance comes from, and showing you how to see where you have to make adjustme…

This week, I offer my tips on facilitating a productive staff meeting. They no longer have to be a thing that none of you enjoy, and instead, I’m showing you how to get to the nitty-gritty of collabo…

Discover how to lead through the emotional tsunami that is hitting our schools. We are all human beings with thoughts and emotions, and it’s not your job as a leader to control other people. But you …