Academic Woman Amplified

Have you ever done professional development? So often, it feels like academics get professional development wrong. Usually, it’s done with a one-off training, but the problem is that there’s no follow through or follow up. There’s no relationship with the leader or the participants.  I want to help transform professional development for academic women. I've been in academia since 1998, and in all those years, I don’t remember any content from one-off trainings. Instead, I remember the relationships I developed along the way.  In this episode I’m talking about good professional development and the benefits that come from combining training, coaching and community.  “The way you are going to change your professional life is through the development of relationships, not through training or teachings you receive.” Training One-off trainings sound appealing because we think that if we just know a certain skill, we’ll be able to change the way we integrate writing into our career. In my coaching programs, the conte