Leadership Lifts
Level up your leadership in 30 minutes! Leadership Lifts are free, online events that offer a dynamic, interactive, engaging way to explore timely topics, gain important insights, connect with other leaders and grow and energize your leadership.
Clearer Than Crystal: Setting Expectations That Actually Stick
“Why isn’t this looking like what I said I expected?”
You’ve named expectations, repeated them (more than once) and followed up but something is just not clicking with your team. You’re not alone—this is something all leaders face.
Join us for this deep dive on the way we set and communicate expectations-in this free 30-minute interactive session, executive coach-sultant Beth Napleton will guide you through practical strategies to bring more clarity, alignment, and follow-through to your leadership. This isn’t about micromanaging—it’s about making sure what matters most is understood and acted on accordingly.
You’ll walk away with:
A practical tool for setting expectations that stick
Strategies for surfacing gaps and resetting when needed
Language that helps you lead with clarity and compassion
Leaders say these sessions are:
✨ “Exactly what I needed to reset with my team.”
💡 “Clear, grounded, and immediately useful.”
🔥 “A leadership tune-up I didn’t even know I needed.”
Whether you’re leading a team through change, navigating new roles, or just tired of repeating yourself, this session will give you a fresh approach—and tools you can use the same day.
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How to Create Vivid Visions
What if everyone on your team was moving in the same direction—for the same reason?
That’s the power of a clear, vivid vision—and in this free 30-minute interactive session, you’ll learn how to craft one that doesn’t just live in your head, but drives action across your organization.
Led by leadership coach-sultant Beth Napleton, this session will help you:
✅ Translate your vision into language that inspires and aligns
✅ Build buy-in across levels and roles
✅ Move from idea to execution—without losing momentum
Walk away with simple, actionable tools and real-world examples you can use right away.
Leaders call these sessions:
✨ “A perfect reset.”
💡 “So clear and practical.”
🔥 “Exactly what I needed to move forward.”
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Getting Ahead of the Next Shift: How to Prepare for a Strong Fall
Everything changes after Labor Day. Are you ready for the shift?
That early September pivot is real. Energy changes. Expectations rise. The pace picks up. And suddenly, you’re navigating new dynamics while still catching your breath from summer.
In this free 30-minute interactive session, leadership coach-sultant Beth Napleton will help you step back and name the shift happening in your team, your role, or your organization—and get ahead of it. Instead of reacting mid-September, you’ll enter the month with clarity, intention, and a practical plan.
This session is for you if:
You sense a change coming but haven’t had space to plan for it
You’re juggling competing priorities and trying to stay grounded
You want to guide your team through the next phase with steadiness—not scramble
You’ll leave with:
A framework for identifying and leading through shifts
Tools to communicate what’s changing and what stays steady
Space to refocus before things accelerate
Leaders say these sessions are:
✨ “Exactly the reset I needed.”
🧭 “A leadership pause that helped me move forward with purpose.”
💡 “Grounded, practical, and energizing.”
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From Solo Act to Symphony: Building a Team That Can Lead Too
Ever think “was it supposed to be this difficult?”
It’s easy to get stuck in the weeds of leadership–—managing every decision, solving every problem, and fighting fires all.the.time. It can be hard to extract yourself to think about how to lessen the load–by leveraging your team.
In this energizing and practical 30-minute session, executive coach-sultant Beth Napleton will help you shift from being a solo act “doing it all” to building a team that leads with you. You’ll learn:
🎸 3 actionable moves to create clarity and shared ownership
🎙 How to avoid the biggest traps leaders face when empowering others
🎼 Why the best leaders don’t go solo—and what it takes to build your band
Whether you’re managing transitions, expanding your team, or trying to develop more leadership and independence at every level, you’ll walk away with clear strategies and tools you can use immediately.
Past attendees call these sessions:
✨ “Practical, clear, and just what I needed.”
💡 “A perfect reset.”
🔥 “So energizing—and actually doable.”
Ready to go from solo act to symphony?
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Lead Like The Boss: How to Share Power Without Losing Control
If you’ve ever felt stuck between “doing it all yourself” and “letting go and hoping for the best,” this session is for you.
Distributed leadership sounds great in theory—but in practice? It can feel messy, confusing, and like everything depends on you anyway.
Join leadership expert Beth Napleton for a free 30-minute session where we’ll dig into how to share ownership without losing authority, vision, or the consistency that your mission needs.
You’ll leave with:
3 practical tools to clarify roles and decision-making
A framework to strengthen team trust and empowering your people
A fresh look at what The Boss (yes, Springsteen) can teach us about leading a team in sync
✅ Designed for senior leaders navigating layers
⏰ 30 minutes, Zoom
🎯 Insightful, actionable, and real-world-tested
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Leading Change: What To Say (and Do) When You Don’t Have All the Answers
Change is messy—even when you believe in it. And leading your team through that mess? That gets real complicated real fast.
In this free, 30-minute Zoom session, leadership expert Beth Napleton offers leaders like you a space to pause, reflect, and learn three clear strategies you can use right away—no matter if you know the answers or not yet.
Perfect for mission-driven leaders feeling the weight of change and wanting to lead their teams to success while staying steady, clear and calm themselves. .
Leaders like you call these sessions “exactly what I needed,” “grounding,” and “so relevant to what I’m navigating right now.”
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Clarity is a Leadership Muscle: Learn how to Flex it!
Frustrated your team isn’t “getting it”?
Tired of people waiting on you to decide everything?
This free 30 minute session is for you! Teams get stuck when they perceive leader to be unclear—whether or not leaders actually are…
👀 Inside this Leadership Lift, we’ll explore:
What makes clarity so difficult to maintain when leading through layers
How ambiguity shows up in subtle but costly ways
A few shifts that immediately increase direction, focus, and confidence
Led by Beth Napleton—trusted coach-sultant to 175+ senior leaders in education and mission-driven orgs—this live session is consistently rated 10/10 for engagement, insight, and practicality.
Whether you join live or catch the replay, you'll walk away with real strategies you can use right away.
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How to Build Vivid Visions that Inspire
A clear vision can be the spark that ignites your organization—but only if everyone can see it. In this Leadership Lift: How to Create Vivid Visions that Inspire, you’ll learn how to make your vision tangible and compelling for your team. In just 30 minutes, discover practical ways to communicate a shared purpose that energizes and engages at every level.
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Lead Your Team Like a Rock Star: Building a Distributed Leadership Model that Works
Everything you need to know about leadership you can learn from watching a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band show, period, full stop. The Boss exemplifies lessons about leading teams I’ve taught hundreds of my clients, and in this 30 minute free online session, we will dig into how you can lead your team more effectively. Whether it’s defining roles and responsibilities more clearly, being comfortable in your authority, or knowing where decision making rights lie, the E Street Band has a distributed leadership model that has inspired schools, systems and nonprofit leaders to channel their inner Rock Star. Affinity for rock totally optional: these leadership lessons work for all leaders regardless of musical preference!
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Difficult Conversations
Somehow, no matter how experienced you are as a leader, difficult conversations never go away. Whether it’s talking to someone about an issue with their performance, a professional breach or a sensitive topic, initiating, having and leading difficult conversations comes with the territory. As Margaret Wheatley says, “leaders need to be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.” In this free 30 minute online session, we will dig into some of the hotspots around these and dive into a few key strategies that will help make even the most difficult conversation a little easier.
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Navigating New & Next: How to Lead Effectively in the School Year Cycle
A school leader once told me “other people know it’s spring when the trees start budding: I know it’s spring when I look at my to-do list and half of the things are really important for this year and half are really important for next year.” Can you relate? Even the most highly organized leaders can struggle at this time of year: there’s a lot to do, it’s all important, and there’s only one you. If this sounds familiar, join us for this free 30 minute online interactive session to talk strategies and ways to navigate this tricky time of year.
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Leading Through Change
Change is an inevitable part of leading–whether it’s internal or external, desired or forced upon us, leading through change is something every leader must do. One of the main challenges is that the variables are almost endless: the particulars of leading change vary tremendously depending on a multitude of factors, and even the most savvy and experienced leader can be frustrated by it. In this free, interactive, 30 minute session we will explore some key insights around change management and you will leave with some actionable strategies to take back to the changes you are in the middle of leading now–or see coming on the horizon!
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Leading with Clarity (for Impact!)
Seeing confused looks on your team members faces –and not always sure why? Noticed that sometimes you think something is very clear, but others seem to find it… less so? Leaders have so many moving pieces they are juggling, and communication between humans is tricky in the best of circumstances. In my work with clients, I often find that leaders think they are very clear, but it turns out that on a scale of 1-10, they may be a 7 on their own internal clarity. We work to make that a 9 or 10–and they see amazing results from it! Join me in this free session to share some of these actionable, practical strategies so you as a leader can be more clear in your own head–so you can leverage that to amazing impact in your work with your team.
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