Offerings
Your Path Your Choice
Whether you are a leader in an organization, an entrepreneur, or are retired and exploring your next chapter, the CCW (Curse of the Competent Woman®) experience is designed to help you thrive…your way.
As a competent woman, you are likely carrying a heavy load. As a leader in your family, in your community, in your work. The proven-over-decades CCW Content and tools; the connected and supportive Community; and the various types of Coaching can help you lighten that load, and leverage your greatest strengths, so that you can show up fully, every day, over time, as the person and leader you want to be. Your most strong, peaceful, joyful you…with ease…naturally.
Choose the path that is best for you…at this time of your life, in this time of the world.
CCW Communications
If you would like to be connected through some light touches (through email), we have a couple of options for you. And please know, we will not share your contact information with anyone else. We hold dear everyone’s privacy.
Weekly Pearls--weekly ‘pearls of wisdom.’ Not shiny, glitzy gems, but beautiful bits of wisdom from women around us and on whose shoulders we stand. When you sign up, you will receive a quote and question to consider at the beginning of each week, as well as a brief reminder, mid-week, to help you keep it top-of-mind and heart.
Mostly-Monthly Musings–as the name implies, mostly-monthly email with more content than the Weekly Pearls. This is our version of a ‘newsletter’ (which sounds a bit dry and boring to us…). We will share some news, but mostly we’ll share thoughts and stories about things that inspire us (or those we care about) who are blessed and cursed by our competence.
CCW Community Membership
You aren’t alone in your experience of how your competence is sometimes a “curse".
More work getting piled on you because you’re good. Being unseen or unheard in some spaces, only to have your ideas co-opted by others. Being told that you’re intimidating, and therefore being asked to be smaller, quieter, nicer. Dancing with your own perfectionism and over-functioning (after all, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing, right!?).
A huge part of the “cure” for the “curse” side of our competence is to hang around other smart, funny, courageous, loving women who are on their own journeys to learn and grow. Sharing our stories, celebrating our successes, supporting each other each step along the way.
Note: This private and intimate on-line community is hosted on Circle.so, so we own our content and personal data.
Emotional and Relational Intelligence – WE-Q Profile with Brief Coaching
Do you notice that you fall into the same patterns when there is tension in your relationships? Or that you continue to get feedback about certain of your behaviors (that you haven’t yet been able to change)? Or that you tend to get ‘triggered’ easily in certain situations? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, the WE-Q Profile, developed by Learning in Action, can be a powerful resource for you. With the results of the Profile, the Handbook, and a few one-on-one coaching meetings, you will be able to dig deeper to see blind spots, get clarity around your patterns, and make more helpful choices in the moment.
The Heroine’s Journey
Are you looking for even more transformation? Over the 9 month CCW Heroine’s Journey, you will experience the full power of the CCW Content, Community, and Coaching to help you shift the things that are most important to you.
As part of the journey, in addition to the intimacy, personal support and accountability of a small group, you will have automatic access to the Membership Community; the WE-Q Profile, Debrief, and Handbook; training sessions, tools, and worksheets; group and peer coaching, speakers, and one-on-one coaching at a discount.
Personalized Coaching
In addition to the group and/or peer coaching opportunities you have available in the CCW Membership Community and Heroine’s Journey, you may choose to personalize your experience even more through one-on-one coaching for you, or team coaching for your organization.
Our Senior Coaches all have decades of experience helping individuals transform their leadership, their organizations, and their lives. When you are at your best, who you are and how you lead are inseparable, enabling both you and your organization to thrive. And because we believe in continuous growth and development, all of our coaches engage in ongoing training and active supervision. You can be assured that you are getting the highest quality coaching.
Please contact us directly to explore if it is a good fit to work with one of our coaches.
Leadership Support for Organizations
Training and development of your people is a big investment. You are aware, no doubt, that you can get the most out of that investment by providing follow-up support. We can help you customize a solution that best meets your needs--group coaching, facilitated discussion groups, WE-Q Profiles to to create better interactions…
Everything we do is customized to meet your needs, in the context of your values, your culture, your DEI(B) efforts, and your specific definition of great leadership.
Working with companies that have some version of a ‘triple bottom line’ (people and planet, as well as profit or sustainable financial success) is our focus. We are happy to have a conversation with you and your decision-making team to explore if it would be a good fit to work together and/or what other options might work better for you and your organization.
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Expansive thinking & personal transformation
"I work in human resources and I've been looking for a group that would be able to help me really realize my full potential and in doing so, I came across the Curse of the Competent Woman®, and I just love the group of women that I've met, who have equal interest in making things happen for themselves, but also at the same time, find balance and care for themselves. So if you're looking for support, but also expansive thinking and personal transformation and development, this is the right group for you."
Dana, Chief People Officer
"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.”
Maya Angelou