otter coaching
1:1 COACHING Sessions
A career is not a life.
How can you do the work you love without losing yourself? You persevered through years of school, a post-doc or two, and navigating the academic job market. You landed your dream job (or close enough!). Now what? Does a successful academic career mean continuing to work at an unsustainable pace? What if you could leverage a few simple tools to design a research career that aligns with your values and gives you space to live the life you want? Being a successful researcher shouldn’t leave you burned out, disillusioned, and regretting your life choices. It should leave you proud of the work you’ve accomplished and the lives you’ve changed through your work, your mentorship, and your service to your community. You deserve to work like a human being.
Working with a coach can help you identify your values and priorities and begin to align them with your approach to work. Are you ready to start saying Hell, yeah! to the work that moves you toward your vision and No, thanks! to extraneous demands that drain you and slow you down? Work 1:1 with The Team Science Lab’s Dr. Betsy Rolland to craft a plan that works for you.
Coaching sessions can frequently be paid for through institutional professional development funds or grants funds where appropriate.
What former clients have to say
“The coaching and gentle guidance I received from Betsy helped me during a critical role transformation into a director. Our work together set me and my team up for success. Not only did we work towards my stated goals for each session, but she acted as that critical mirror for how my values affect my work and drive me towards greater fulfillment in what I do. Her insights into how to make decisions (a difficult thing for me) still ring in my head and guides my actions. Betsy treated me as a holistic person, and truly cared about my success. I’m forever grateful!”
“Betsy was an incredibly helpful lifesaver in the storm of being a first-year TT assistant professor. Navigating a new place, space, expectations, on top of being a whole human is a Herculean task for even the most robust candidate. Coaching in this context provided a critical respite via a safe space to reflect and process, while gaining skills and strategies for moving forward. I loved my experience with Betsy; I felt supported and empowered to address the challenges with starting tenure track life, managing a lab, getting one’s research off the ground getting practical advice that was incredibly helpful.”