Coaching and Consulting
Trusted Voices
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Trusted By
QUIT
We’re watching people quietly the environments they were asked to trust.
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Homes, classrooms, teams, and districts are feeling the weight.
The misalignment that drains motivation.
The inconsistency that breaks connection.
The pressure that pushes good people into survival mode.
The silence that shows up long before the resignation does.
These patterns aren’t the exception anymore.
They're
SHAPING A
NEW NORM
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The cost is real
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Teams are overwhelmed.
Parents are exhausted.
Educators are stretched to their limit.
People aren’t just quitting jobs.
They’re quitting each other ... and themselves.
The danger isn’t just burnout. It’s the numbness that grows when people stop believing change is possible and the silence that settles in when trust and support break down.
That loss of hope and agency is the real threat.
WE CAN'T AFFORD TO WAIT
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In a world moving fast and burning people out even faster, our greatest advantage is creating environments where people feel grounded enough to stay.
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STAYING POWER
Not the “quick fix,” “team-building activity,” or “checklist unity” we throw at problems.
Real Stay Spaces are built with clarity, love, and connection at the center.
Staying grounded in STRENGTH
Stay Spaces ask us to:
✔ Build systems that support people before they break
✔ Learn each other deeply enough to respond with intention, not assumption
✔ Lead with consistency so trust doesn’t have to be earned twice
✔ Address conflict with honesty and compassion
✔ Make decisions that protect people’s dignity, not just their productivity
This is what makes teams, families, and communities sustainable and unstoppable.
The Far from being passive, this is what it means to build Staying Power
STRONG ENOUGH
TO STAY
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And it’s the most necessary, strategic, and courageous work leaders can choose right now.
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Hi
I’m Dr. Tawana
The heart of my work is simple. I help people build environments where individuals feel strong enough to stay and supported enough to grow. Environments shape everything: how people behave, how they communicate, how they believe in themselves, and whether they stay connected or quietly give up.
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The heart of my work is simple. I help people and systems build environments where individuals feel strong enough to stay and supported enough to grow. Environments shape everything: how people behave, how they communicate, how they believe in themselves, and whether they stay connected or quietly give up.
My grounding has always been the same. Love, clarity, and connection. These are not soft ideas. They are the structure that holds people in place. When environments lose that structure, people lose their footing. And when people lose their footing, they disconnect, shut down, or quit. Not because they are incapable, but because the space around them stopped paying attention.
I have spent nearly 30 years in classrooms, school buildings, district offices, conference rooms, and my own home raising neurodiverse children. I have watched how environments shape confidence, behavior, belonging, and staying power. The patterns are consistent everywhere. When people feel misunderstood or misjudged, they pull back. When they feel understood, they grow. When they feel supported, they stay.
People are not the problem. Systems are. When I help people transform how they understand themselves and each other, the way their environments function changes. I build spaces where growth is sustainable and where people want to stay.
My work reflects what I have lived. As a principal, I led a school that reached a one hundred percent graduation rate with every student accepted into college or university and more than ten million dollars in scholarships awarded. I retained staff, strengthened culture, restored connection, and partnered with families in ways that made staying possible. The same principles guide my work today. I teach individuals and organizations how to build systems that support people well and create environments that stand firm in clarity, care, and consistency.
At the core of everything I do is a commitment to helping people turn awareness into action and information into transformation. Growth does not come from pressure. It comes from environments that honor humanity and hold people with intention.
Strong environments createStaying Power ... And staying power allows people to grow, thrive, and remain connected for the long haul.
THIS ISN’T JUST THEORY…
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This work has transformed entire school communities, strengthened district leadership teams, rebuilt parent partnerships, and helped educators and families to continue to show up with clarity, connection, and consistency. It’s the same approach that led my school to one hundred percent graduation, one hundred percent college acceptance, and over ten million dollars in scholarships. These aren’t ideas. They’re systems that work.
It all starts with a clear, practical framework
that strengthens how we lead at every level.
For the leaders who commit to this work,
staying power becomes the culture.
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It becomes the sign that people are seen, supported, and able to grow.
Leaders who people trust because they lead with clarity, consistency, and care, not pressure or fear.
Teams that can face hard moments together because conflict is handled with honesty and connection, not avoidance.
Schools where students stay engaged because the support matches their needs, not their labels.
Workplaces where people do not burn out, shut down, or walk away because the systems hold them well.
Organizations that make others pause and ask,
“What did they build that makes people stay?”
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