The Professor Is In

Guidance for all things PhD: Graduate School, Job Market and Careers

Coaching

Private Pre-Tenure Coaching Group

Get all your questions answered about the tenure track, whether you’re just starting out or about to head into your tenure year, with former Dept Head and academic career expert, Dr. Karen Kelsky.

Let me be the career mentor you might not have on your campus, OR your one-woman No Committee, keeping you from over-committing to projects harming your tenure case, OR your impartial sounding board for sketchy campus/department politics, OR your cheerleader for getting your work done and published, OR your skeptical interlocutor to help determine if it’s time to move on. [And these are not mutually exclusive!]

I will answer any and all questions about managing the stresses and opportunities of the tenure track period, including (but not limited to!)

*what to do in the first year

*managing department politics

*getting your writing done

*strategizing service demands

*understanding how tenure cases are run

*understanding the role of external reviewers

*recognizing unhealthy work environments and taking action

*learning to say no

*fostering a healthy work/life balance

*challenges for white women and BIPOC scholars

*deciding it’s time to leave

*and anything else you want to know

100% confidential space.

 

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Private Leaving Academia Coaching Group

 

 

 

Starting Fall 2022, we are partnering with Kel Weinhold of Reach The Next Level, to offer private coaching and developmental editing for your scholarly projects, large and small. Called Ideas Bootcamp Coaching, it’s about conceptualizing, organizing, and refining your scholarly (and on a case by case basis, creative) work.

Kel walks you through her unparalleled and totally unique system of probing questions, illuminating analogies, piercing observations, and gentle challenges.

Kel is a genius coach (I – Karen – can attest), and has been doing this work with her Unstuck: The Art of Productivity clients for years. Now she’s making it available to all. 

She offers an extraordinary combination of compassion and push. She works with scholars at all levels.

Info on rates to follow.

If you’d like to get on the email list for earliest information, please comment here with your email address.

Meanwhile, Kel Weinhold’s long-standing coaching offerings are below: