Coaching Can Support You With

Leadership & Supervision

For leaders, managers, educators, and program directors who want to strengthen how they supervise, communicate, and support others.

 

Coaching may focus on:

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• Clarifying your leadership style and values

• Building confidence as a supervisor

• Navigating role expectations

• Giving feedback with care and clarity

• Managing up, across, and down

• Supporting staff growth and accountability

• Strengthening team culture

• Developing more intentional leadership habits

 

Conflict Coaching & Communication

For people navigating tension, difficult conversations, or complicated interpersonal dynamics.

 

Coaching may focus on:

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• Understanding conflict patterns

• Preparing for hard conversations

• Naming needs and concerns clearly

• De-escalating tension

• Repairing trust after conflict

• Communicating across difference

• Strengthening listening practices

• Responding rather than reacting

 

Facilitation & Program Leadership

For professionals who lead workshops, meetings, retreats, classes, cohorts, or community conversations.

 

Coaching may focus on:

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• Designing stronger workshops or curricula

• Planning retreats or facilitated sessions

• Responding to group dynamics

• Building activities that are purposeful and engaging

• Facilitating with more confidence

• Translating big ideas into practical learning experiences

• Creating programs that reflect participant needs

 

Youth Leadership & Engagement

For adults and organizations working with young people.

 

Coaching may focus on:

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• Strengthening youth voice and decision-making

• Supporting teen boards, advisory groups, or youth-led projects

• Designing programs that treat young people as whole people

• Sharing power with youth responsibly

• Navigating adult-youth dynamics

• Building trust with young people

• Applying an ecosystem approach to youth leadership development

 

Career Transitions & Professional Growth

For professionals who are rethinking their next step, moving into a new role, or trying to better align their work with their values.

 

Coaching may focus on:

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• Clarifying professional goals

• Naming strengths and priorities

• Preparing for career shifts

• Navigating academic, nonprofit, or community-based career paths

• Building confidence in your professional story

• Thinking through what kind of work you want to do next

 

What Coaching Looks Like

Coaching sessions are customized to your role, context, and goals. Some clients use coaching to work through a specific challenge. Others use it as an ongoing space for reflection, planning, and leadership support.

 

Coaching may include:

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• One-on-one coaching sessions

• Group coaching

• Short-term coaching around a specific challenge

• Ongoing leadership support

• Coaching connected to a workshop, consulting project, or organizational transition

• Practical tools, reflection questions, and next steps between sessions

 

Sessions are available virtually or in person, depending on location and project scope.

 

Coaching Style

 

Dr. Trisha Swed brings a warm, direct, thoughtful, and practical approach to coaching. Her work draws from leadership studies, communication, conflict resolution, adult learning, youth development, nonprofit practice, and community-based facilitation.

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Coaching conversations may include reflection, strategy, role-play, conflict mapping, values clarification, communication planning, supervision tools, or program design support. The goal is not simply to talk through a problem. The goal is to help you see the situation more clearly and leave with a stronger sense of what you can do next.

 

Coaching for Organizations

Organizations can also work with SWED Development to provide coaching for staff members, supervisors, student leaders, youth workers, or program teams.

 

This can be especially useful when an organization is:

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• Supporting new or emerging leaders

• Strengthening supervision practices

• Navigating internal change

• Building a healthier staff culture

• Preparing staff to facilitate groups or workshops

• Supporting leaders after a retreat, training, or strategic planning process

• Investing in professional development for mission-driven staff

 

Coaching can stand alone or be paired with consulting, workshops, facilitation, or strategic planning.

 

Schedule a Coaching Conversation

 

If you are leading through change, preparing for a difficult conversation, building a program, navigating conflict, or trying to grow into your next version of leadership, coaching may be a helpful place to start.

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