from Mining and Shining Idea Labs
from Mining and Shining Idea Lab:
Discharging Your Loyal Soldier,
Coaching for School Leaders in Transition
Principals, principal-managers, and executive directors: leave the old role cleanly, lead the new one with clarity, and execute.
Ideas are never enough.
About James
Certified Jungian Life Coach and Executive Director of Project Reflect (founded by Sister Sandra Smithson) and Smithson Craighead Academy — Middle Tennessee’s first charter school. I help school leaders discharge the Loyal Soldier so they can step cleanly into new roles and actually execute.
1:1 Coaching
1:1 Coaching
Discharging Your Loyal Soldier
For school leaders stepping into new roles, new organizations, or new projects. This is practical, depth-oriented coaching that helps you honorably discharge the Loyal Soldier — the part of you still running the old identity and old systems — so you can lead the next chapter with clarity and get results.
Courage Gap and InfoGraphics
Talks and short pieces that name the real gaps and incentives holding schools back. Many of the patterns identified here are the same ones we are actively fixing at Project Reflect and Smithson Craighead Academy.
U-Turns
Field notes from inside the work. During the school year I document the tactics and decisions at Project Reflect and Smithson Craighead Academy — Middle Tennessee’s first charter school. In the summers I return to broader questions of policy, courage, and the patterns that keep systems stuck.