Integrate self-care into your leadership practice

so you burn bright,

instead of burning out

Practice with us inside of…

The Sustainable Leader:

The small group Community of Practice starts October 24, 2024

For leaders ready to re-prioritize self-care for balance, clarity, and resilience

Together, we'll explore self-care for real life and lay the groundwork for a personal practice that replenishes and sustains you.

“Now, I show up with energy. I show up to work with energy. I go into meetings with energy. My mind is engaged. My excitement is there. My fun, my passion, my willingness to speak up are all recovering... What a journey!”

If you could…

- Do more every day that aligns with who you are

- Level up your leadership

- Do self-care without the guilt

- Find more time in your day

- Access clarity, resilience, and finally learn how to say no at work

Would you give yourself that gift?

Or would you keep on…

-  Working longer and harder, too tired and drained to enjoy life.

-  Putting off self-care until after the project is over or you finally can take PTO

-  Saying yes to all the meetings, jumping in to put out work “fires” and family needs at the expense of your own needs

-  Finding yourself irritable and empty by the time you get home to the people you love most

-  Repeating the cycle of gritting through and crashing hard

If you’re ready to lead without sacrificing yourself along the way,

Sustainable Leader is for you.

Inside this community of practice, you’ll learn proven self-care principles that fit into real life and fuel your energy for work and life.

In case we haven’t met yet…

Hi! I’m Jen 👋

I think I know a little something about you…

I’m willing to bet you don’t need convincing to prioritize your people’s wellbeing. I know you know that trust, communication, and development are foundations for their success. You want to inspire people, and support their work-life balance, and help them achieve things they are proud of.

But you deprioritize those things for yourself on the daily.

>> There’s not enough time.

>> Back-to-back meetings all day mean you have to work nights and weekends just to keep your nose above water.

>> You’re invested in your people and making your team a positive place to work (even if the rest of the company is a mess).

>> You’re a go-to in your company, and constantly tapped to help put out fires.

>> I know you think you’ll take a break when the project is over.

>> And you question whether the effort it takes to step away is even worth it….

I also know none of those reasons are the real problem.

Because you’re intelligent and resourceful, and you would have figured it out by now if it were that simple.

I know because I’ve been there. And I’ve come out on the other side.

Let me share a quick story of what that can be like.  

I was a go-to high-performer in my former career as an HR professional. My work mattered to me. I knew the decisions I made, the programs we rolled out, and my hallway conversations were impactful for individuals, teams, and the success of the company.

I carried the weight of that responsibility.

For years, from job to job and company to company, I stayed after everyone else to do my actual work outside of meetings. (The janitor actually started bringing me protein shakes, clearly pitying me sitting alone in the dimmed after-hours lighting.) I started my days earlier and earlier, getting less sleep and skipping my morning workout. I worked on the weekend, only to still not make it through my inbox.

I’d come to believe it was the only way.

Then I hit a breaking point.

I came back from an amazing vacation in Iceland, excited to reconnect with what we called “the dream team” amongst ourselves.

Unbeknownst to me, I was walking into an implosion of the team, where all but one member of that dream team quit around me within one week.

My director and a colleague finally put their foot down and wouldn’t put up with the toxic behaviors of our leadership anymore.

Another colleague, whom I was ready to take under my wing during this transition, left because she wasn’t willing to work for a company that treated people that way.

I started crying as she gave me her resignation, and the tears wouldn’t stop.

My reserves were on empty, and I was terrified of what carrying on under this leadership would be like.

I boarded the bus long before the workday was over, hoping passengers would ignore my puffy, tear-streaked face. I kept my head down, staring at my knees and the faux velvet of the seat in front of me. Before 2pm, I was sunk down low in the bathtub ignoring a call from my suddenly new manager…

Here’s where the story turns around. My company hired a coach to support me in carrying HR through this massive change.

That was the beginning of my journey back to myself.

It’s impossible to capture every step along the way, but I’m still flabbergasted when I look back and say that I changed the dynamic of the relationship with that leader through the amazing support of my coach.

>> I felt like I finally had permission to be human.

>> I stopped worrying so much.

>> I got clear on what mattered to me.

And a year later, while wrapping up our work together, my coach asked me, “Do you feel like a whole new person?”

“No,” I realized, with a sense of awe in that moment.

“I feel like myself again.”

Combining my own experience

and the wisdom gained from guiding clients back to themselves,

I have a proven framework for integrating self-care and leadership:

The 4A+ Cycle for

Sustainable Leadership

End this 3-month group program with your battery charged and your resilience expanded so you can:

+ Find the energy to take care of your team AND do the things you enjoy.

+ Use your precious time in a way that fills your bucket instead of pacing, scrolling, or worrying about work.

+ Keep your sense of stability in the face of constant changes, uncertainty, and demands.

+ Increase your mind’s capacity to focus for calm, clear-headed decisions.

+ Get just-in-time tools and principles to guide you through this collision of the frenzies of back-to-school, year-end at work, and holiday demands.

+ Make self-care part of every day, not a once-in-a-blue-moon escape that requires heroics to execute.

Psst: You may even be surprised to find you don’t have to work as hard AND your effectiveness and productivity get a boost.

Here's How We'll Do That

  • ✺ Biweekly group calls

    create caring accountability to show up for yourself. Explore sustainable self-care through individual reflection, group conversation, and live coaching. Access the collective experiences, questions, and wisdom of other leaders who are on this journey, too.

  • ✺ Optional exercises

    during off-weeks to practice sustainable self-care and deepen connection with your self. This isn’t about more to-dos. Rather, they are invitations to experiment and make the most of this 3-month learning journey.

  • ✺ Private WhatsApp group

    to keep the conversation going between scheduled sessions. Ask questions, celebrate wins, and get coach and peer support throughout the week.

  • ✺ A gift package

    thoughtfully curated to support your learning process and your ongoing practice.

Enroll Now

words from clients

  • “I am feeling and seeing such an amazing difference. I didn't think I would actually be able to point to anything different, but this has been life changing. Work changing, and life changing.”

  • “Since we’ve started working together, I’ve started to find a really nice synergy between how my personal and professional lives can sustain each other.”

  • "Jen always does a great job of asking questions that help me uncover the heart of the matter. Even when I initially think that her question might not apply, when I stay open to it and sit with it, the answers always lead me to a deeper recognition of what is important and what I need to focus on."

I Want This!

You can be one of the leaders who has it figured out.

Before now, I’ve only offered this program to private clients at a 4-figure investment.

Now you can access all of that same guidance and expertise, PLUS the connection and caring accountability of community support for just…

$340

Ready?

Have questions first?

✺ Frequently Asked Questions ✺

  • The group will kick off with its first meeting on October 24th. All calls will take place at 12pm PT / 3pm ET.

    If this timing is regularly booked for you, I encourage you to consider whether you're able/willing to block the time for you for this short 3-month period, or request that a recurring meeting move to another day or time. I'll even give you a free coaching session to support you in setting this boundary if you want! Email me at jen@jjbcoaching.com.

    All group calls will be conducted through Microsoft Teams.

  • At a minimum, you can expect one hour of meeting time every other week.

    You'll get the full benefit of this community of practice as you engage with the subject matter throughout your days outside of those group calls.

    That might include trying optional activities or exercises that I'll share during the weeks we don't meet, participating in the private WhatsApp group chat, incorporating your own self-care practices, or even reading/listening to a topical book or podcasts.

    It's worth noting that a lot of the practices of integrated self-care that we'll explore together aren't separate from the normal activities you participate in throughout your day. Some of the practice will be incorporating awareness, self-compassion, and your personal values into everything you do.

  • That's to be expected!

    Of course it would be amazing for each community member to participate in every call. Each person will bring the brilliance of their unique self, context, and experience to the conversations.

    At the same time, I understand that may not be realistic. I trust you to discern what to do with your time. That, in part, is the practice of self-care.

    AND, I invite you to consider your self and your needs, the practice of boundary-setting, and values-based decision making - amongst other factors - as you choose where to be.

    You'll have an open invitation to reach out to me if you need help with this for any given group call.

  • I’m an introvert, too, so this is totally a question I have asked.

    I can’t say whether this is for you or not. What I can say is that the small groups I’ve been part of in the past have been some of the most inspiring, encouraging, and energizing spaces for me. If you’re one of those people who could do without small talk, and prefers to talk about what’s real and matters, this is definitely that.

    Group coaching has some built-in benefits that you don’t get with private coaching. Top on many people’s lists is that it’s more affordable. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, though. You get the benefit of other people on a similar journey sharing their experiences, perspectives, and wisdom. They may ask a question that you haven’t thought of, or share an idea or resource we wouldn’t come up with one-on-one.

  • I could probably go on ad nauseum in response to this question. I'll say two (still semi-long) things instead.

    1) Leadership can be incredibly rewarding, but it’s also draining. It’s pouring out for others. Practicing self-care that refuels you for what's happening now and deepens your resilience for what may happen in the future is necessary to avoid the decrease in performance that comes with burnout.

    AND, perhaps more significantly,

    2) I've seen time and again how limited thinking, broken trust, perfectionism, and a lack of healthy boundaries make the role of leadership miserable and ineffective. Another training won't fix any of these things. Instead, it's the personal development focused on your patterns of thinking, emotional awareness, purpose and values, social/relational intelligence, and the wisdom of your body and intuition that help you build your capacity to build trust, inspire aligned actions and behaviors, make decisions with clarity, and move with the flexibility and resilience needed for the leadership that leaves a lasting positive mark on people's hearts.

  • YES!

    While we often use the word "leader" to refer to formal positions or a subset of job titles, every single one of us can be a leader, wherever we are.

    Even the most junior person on a team can be a leader through their attitude, cognitive process, and behaviors. Parenting is a leadership role. Leadership exists within community groups or service-based roles. I could go on.

    If you identify with this philosophy, please come on in!

  • The every-other-week schedule aims to miss major cultural holidays in the U.S.

    Please bring it to my attention if one of the sessions falls on a holiday that you observe so I can look into adjusting.

  • I certainly don’t want to stand in the way of that indulgence, especially if it’s a meaningful part of your self-care practice!

    What I so often see with clients is that they get their massage (or fill in the blank with your relaxing activity of choice) and then they get jolted out of the relaxation and lose nearly all benefit of relaxation as soon as they get back to their desk.

    Without the internal self-care practice that you’ll learn and practice in this group, you also may find that indulgences like massages don't make a sustained difference in the way you are able to engage with more clarity, alignment and energy.

  • Please do! Send me an email at jen@jjbcoaching.com so I can clarify or otherwise help you out.

    Other people may be wondering the same thing, too, and your question will help me build out these FAQs.

    I'm also happy to arrange a phone call if that would be supportive for you. Just let me know .

LET’S BE CLEAR

Leadership is about inspiring, enabling, and empowering people.

Its very nature is pouring out for others.

That does not mean it has to become self-sacrifice.

Being stuck in constant motion keeps you from letting your leadership shine.

You have more control to change things than it seems, once you transform your relationship with your Self.

Which leaves you with 3 choices….

  1. You can continue beyond your human capacity, working longer hours, responding immediately to pings, and jumping in to fix everyone’s problems.

  2. You can drop 4-figures on a yoga retreat, hoping to reset so you can come back and keep going.

  3. You can follow the simple, proven path already laid for you, which not only gets you back into balance, but also creates meaningful change in your organization and relationships.

If you want to finally fit self-care back into your life,

get back to being the leader (and person) you know you can be,

and #3 is appealing to you…

…then I’m honored to invite you into

the Sustainable Leader Community of Practice

where we’ll make it happen by practicing self-care, together.

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