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Consulting & Coaching

Strategic Partnership for Leaders Navigating Real Challenges

Diagnostic clarity, strategic next steps, and stronger leadership alignment, built around your school's specific situation.

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Diagnostic clarity

On your specific challenges

Strategic next steps

Grounded in the TrustED® framework

Leadership alignment

Across your team and board

Organizational momentum

Healthier culture and clearer direction

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

Three engagement models

Every consulting engagement begins with a conversation to understand your context. From there, the scope, timeline, and format are built around what your school actually needs.

SHORT-TERM

Project-based consulting

A defined engagement focused on a specific challenge,  a leadership transition, a culture audit, a board alignment issue, or a school improvement initiative.

Ongoing coaching relationship

MOST COMMON

Regular coaching sessions with a head of school, leadership team, or board, building trust, clarity, and momentum over time. Monthly or bi-monthly cadence.

COMPREHENSIVE

Full school engagement

A deeper, multi-phase engagement combining assessment, training, consulting, and coaching , designed for schools pursuing significant improvement or transformation.

WHAT CHANGES

  • Clearer picture of where trust is strong and where it is weak across your organization

  • Strategic next steps specific to your school's culture, context, and leadership team

  • Stronger alignment between administration, faculty, and board

  • Healthier organizational momentum, less friction, more forward movement

  • Leadership credibility strengthened within the school community

  • A concrete roadmap for continued improvement after the engagement ends

SPECIALTY AREA

Policy review & revision

 POLICY EXPERTISE

When policies undermine the trust you are trying to build

Many school policies are written on the premise of distrust, designed to control rather than empower. Dr. Travis works with leadership teams to review and revise operational and organizational policies, ensuring they are aligned with the school's mission, vision, values, and the trust-building culture leadership is trying to create.

Who This Is For

  • School improvement efforts

  • Leadership transitions

  • Culture challenges

  • Board-administration alignment

  • Organizational growth

  • Accreditation preparation

  • Trust breakdowns

  • Policy revision

  • Mission dirft

FROM LEADERS WHO HAVE WORKED WITH DR. TRAVIS

In their own words

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    “Dr. Travis knows about Trusted Leadership because he lives it.  His engaging, encouraging counsel, which challenges and inspires, is so needed not just in education but in all industries.  Dr. Travis brings a wealth of practical experience and actionable strategies to today's challenges.  I can always count on Dr. Travis to speak truth in love, knowing that his intentions are for my good and my success.  Having an advisor like him in my life is a special gift.”

    Dr. Matthew Flippen

    Founder & President, Gracelyn University, #1 Bestselling Author of Win With Your Talent Pipeline,

    Host of Transformational Educators Podcast

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    “It has been a sincere pleasure having Toby Travis as a colleague and advisor. Toby has the experience, energy, and professionalism to: engage leaders, provide immediate diagnostics to issues, and navigate complex systems to produce results for success.”

    Anthony Vandarakis, Ph.D.

    Former Principal, American Community Schools, Athens, Greece / Tech International Charter School, New York, NY / Academia Cotopoxi, Quito, Ecuador

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    “Two years into the pandemic, our school board and administration had a follow-up seminar with Dr. Toby Travis. We were able to compare back to our first workshop in 2019 to evaluate progress and set goals for further improvement. I want to reiterate how invaluable TrustED has been for our school as we navigate the challenges of the pandemic and political instability of Haiti.”

    Kim Gryglewicz

    Middle School Principal, Bradenton Christian School, Bradenton,

    FL / Former Curriculum Director, Quisqueya Christian School, Port au Prince, Haiti

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    “Dr. Toby Travis challenged our school board and administration in an encouraging and effective way to revisit our Mission, Vision, and Values statements. He provided excellent training in how to assess and promote them as well. Dr. Travis also gave our board, administration, maintenance, and security directors training in trusted school leadership. I highly recommend having him partner with your institution to train your school administration, faculty, and staff.”

    Kevin van Rensburg

    Director General, Asuncion Christian Academy, Asuncion, Paraguay / Former General Director, Bridgeway North American School, Mexico City, Mexico​

Not Sure Which Service Fits Your School?

Start with a 45-minute conversation. We will figure it out together.

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