Episode Details

Dr. Chara N. Willaford, founder of Be Your Best Yet Coaching and Consulting, is an educational leader with 25+ years of experience. A National Mentor and Trainer, she specializes in turning around schools, empowering future and early-career principals. Dr. Chara's journey spans roles at state, district, national, and building levels, reflecting a deep commitment to shaping the future of education. Her holistic approach and commitment to continuous learning are embodied in the motto, 'The Best is Yet to Come.

Show Highlights

• Powerful principal pipelines for sustainable leadership development.

• Strategies to overcome imposter syndrome in educational leadership.

• Stop downselling yourself and putting a ceiling on what you can accomplish.

• Making the invisible visible for aspiring leaders.

• Importance of developing a CEO mentality for principals.

• Work-life harmony for long term sustainment in the job.

• Scheduling thinking time for strategic planning.

• Guidelines for building collective excellence for your teams.

"When I think about working with leaders, the beauty of having this big bird's eye view at the state level, and I would even say at the national level, because I work with leaders at that place as well, is that the commonalities are the same. It doesn't matter if you're in one state or the next. If you're in a smaller district or a bigger district, the need for coaching, the need to have a community that you can lean upon is ever so present in leaders for today. The overall stress of ensuring that we have school communities that work for kids is something that transcends every leader."

-Dr. Chara N. Willaford

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