A career coaching program for women of color in academic research to get grants, get promoted, and effectively lead an independent research job program.
When women of color in academia want to excel in research but don’t know how to establish their own independent research program they come to me
IS THIS YOU?
You have a desire to do research that has an impact but you find you spend most of your time on things that don't move your research forward, like others' projects, email, and clinical tasks.
You have received grant funding and want to apply for an additional grant to establish your own independent research program, but when you work on the grant you think you don't know what you are doing and feel discouraged.
You have an active research program, but you find you are often overwhelmed, have too much to do, and you can't seem to catch up on everything. You feel like your career is out of your control. This leaves you tired, not having time for yourself, and trying not to resent your career.
You have published papers and received grants, but you have not gone up for promotion yet because you think you need an additional skill or award to get promoted. This leaves you to feel discouraged and avoid completing the promotion package.
You have several great ideas to have a research impact, but you don't make progress on them because you want others' approval, dislike planning and goal-setting, and feel like an imposter.
The Make Internal Shifts Philosophy
Women of color in academic research careers are equipped to achieve their research goals, more than qualified in fact. Such that, they don't need a grant or be promoted to lead their career. They don't have to work all hours to feel qualified in their role. They already have all that they need to have a successful, rewarding career. In Make Internal Shifts, we amplify the internal dialogue to ensure they can fast track their research and their career goals. It is the internal dialogue that allows for optimal creativity and problem-solving as a scientist. Harnessing the internal dialogue is a skill clients gain through Make Internal Shifts that is the superpower for career transformation!
The Make Internal Shifts Framework helps you have the career you desire:
Develop Successful Research Grant Applications
- Determine what makes your proposal compelling and how to convey that to reviewers
- Identify potential weaknesses and how to overcome them
- Create and stick to your grant-writing timeline
- Use your scientific skills to identify how to best take care of yourself while grant-writing
Execute your Scientific Projects Efficiently
- Utilize a simple framework to plan each project without overwhelm
- Implement a fool-proof system for decision-making and problem-solving when challenges arise
-Lead teams and delegate tasks effectively
Submit an Undeniable Promotion Package
-Evaluate your own readiness for promotion by tracking your academic achievements
- Use your career strengths to confidently write your academic summary
- Build your academic reputation with intention
Create mindset shifts that amplify certainty about your future success in academia:
- Develop your “REAL” CV - Clients focus on their own strengths, values, purpose to specify their goals and acknowledge they are uniquely qualified to achieve them.
- RESEARCH YOU - Clients develop awareness of thoughts that limit them and create new thoughts to propel them to take action towards their goals.
- YOU Protocol - Clients create a protocol that they can reliably use to help optimize their performance in the moment (e.g., writing block, leading a meeting, public speaking)