where school leaders find the preparation they were never given
Force Multiplier IQ offers a small set of carefully built services for school leaders and leadership teams who want to lead change with greater skill, sustainability, and confidence. Each engagement is grounded in change management research, organizational psychology, and more than two decades inside K-12 schools, and each one can be tailored to the specific change you are leading.
Where School Leaders Find the Preparation They Were Never Given
Force Multiplier IQ offers a small set of carefully built services for school leaders and leadership teams who want to lead change with greater skill, sustainability, and confidence. Each engagement is grounded in change management research, organizational psychology, and more than two decades inside K-12 schools, and each one can be tailored to the specific change you are leading.
1:1 Private Coaching
Coaching & Simulations
For the leader carrying a significant initiative, navigating a difficult transition, preparing for a new role, or working inside a system whose complexity has outpaced the preparation they were given. Confidential, one-on-one, structured around your actual work, and grounded in the same body of change management research I bring to every engagement.
What This Includes:
- Regular calls scheduled around your work
- Professional assessments as an optional integration to validate a leader’s strengths and illuminate areas of one’s leadership that needs greater self-awareness
- Case studies and simulations to prepare leaders for difficult situations before the arrive.
- Frameworks and language to use immediately
- A confidential partner for the conversations that may one may not be able to have inside their school
Who This Is For:
- Administrators at every level: senior district leaders and heads of school, principals and division heads, department chairs and directors
- Teachers aspiring to leadership or about to begin their transition into a leadership role
Workshops for Administrators & Teams
Change Leadership Training & Retreats
For senior leadership teams carrying a significant initiative, working through an inherited change that has not yet landed, or doing the deeper work of building team trust and holding the school to its mission. Team engagements are scoped to your specific situation and draw on the research and experience that informs every Force Multiplier IQ engagement.
What This Includes:
- Training in the science and strategy of change management
- Building your team’s capacity to read resistance, conflict, and team dynamics as information rather than obstacles
- Diagnostic work to surface where a change initiative sits and what will determine its success
- Optional professional assessments to illuminate how individual leadership styles and team dynamics are shaping the work
Workshops and retreats include the following tools:
- Change Orientation Profile to explore the cultural, generational, and ecological systems that shape how we each team member experiences change
- Change Readiness Audit to assess an organization’s readiness for change, including structural and system level-conditions that will shape whether it succeeds
- School Culture Assertiveness Scale, an essential tool to determine the right change strategy for your school culture
- Change Heat Map to predict how change will land differently across stakeholder groups
- Team Vitality Index to protect leader health so change happens without burnout or erosion of trust
Live trainings cover all of the foundational topics from the Change IQ course (below) and adds the full body of change management frameworks that inform our practice, including ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step Process, Bridges’ Transition Model, Lewin’s Change Model, and the McKinsey 7-S Framework.
Digital Course
Change IQ: Foundations for Leading Change in Schools Today
A foundational for course any school leader, regardless of role and title.
A self-paced digital course that introduces change management as a leadership discipline and applies it directly to the realities of K-12 schools.
Drawing on established change management frameworks alongside research in organizational behavior, queuing theory, and systems theory, the course builds the conceptual foundation that makes your leadership during change more intentional, more effective, and far less likely to end in the burnout, resistance, and initiative failure that so many school leaders experience.
The five modules are:
- The Individual Experience of Change. How your personal patterns shape your leadership during change. Examining the gender, authority, cultural, and generational dimensions of how you lead.
- The Nature of Change in School Organizations. Why schools as deeply relational and publicly positioned institutions are uniquely complex change environments.
- Assessing Readiness and Anticipating Risk. Frameworks for evaluating where your organization is ready, where it is overloaded, and where the conditions for change have not yet been built.
- Leading the Human Side of Change. Reading the full spectrum of human response to change, from those who leap to those who brace, and leading each person where they are.
- Sustaining and Embedding Change Over Time. Reinforcement, accountability, and the long work of making change stick in the culture of school life.
Pay It Forward Coaching
3% for Emerging Leaders
Leadership development shouldn’t depend on access or funding. Every educator with the courage to lead deserves support. That’s why 3% of our annual net profits to sponsor coaching packages for emerging leaders, including teachers ready to be seen as leaders and school leaders whose districts cannot fully fund professional development.
This initiative is designed to strengthen the leadership pipeline in education. A national teacher shortage becomes a leadership shortage within a decade, and Pay It Forward is one contribution to the work of preventing that.
I was shaped by mentors who saw something in me before I could see it in myself, and Pay It Forward is one way to return what was given to me. Sponsored packages six to ten coaching sessions focused on building awareness, confidence, and strategy for aspiring teacher-leaders.
You Can Help, Too:
If you had a mentor who changed your life, or if you wished someone had invested in you when it would have mattered most, you can join the Pay It Forward network as a mentor, donor, or volunteer coach.
At the Heart of It All
Force Multiplier IQ exists because the people leading schools are doing some of the most consequential work in any sector, and the discipline that would help them do it even better has been missing from their preparation for too long. Bringing change management to the heart of education is not a marketing position. It is the work, and it is the reason this practice exists.
Anna was instrumental in helping me transition from the classroom to an administrative role.
After more than ten years of teaching, the idea of stepping into a new position felt overwhelming, even though I knew I was ready for the next step. Anna supported me at every stage—from navigating tough conversations with families to giving feedback to teachers. She was there whenever I needed her.
As a coach, Anna is clear and direct. She offers feedback that genuinely helps you achieve the results you’re striving for. Her thoughtful, data-driven approach to mentoring comes through in every conversation and every interaction.
Megan C., Washington, D.C.
Begin where you Are
Whether you are a head of school or superintendent preparing your team for what is ahead, a leader looking for one-on-one counsel, or a teacher preparing for the role you can see in your future, I’m glad you’re interested in change management and I would love to talk with you about which one fits the moment you are in.
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