Who I Work With
PULSE is designed for student services and special education leaders — and the people around them who affect whether their departments succeed.
Student Services Directors & Special Education Directors
This is the role PULSE was built for. Whether you are new to the position, new to your district, years into the work and feeling the weight of it, or staring down a budget cycle that requires you to justify everything — PULSE gives you a structured methodology and a set of instruments that were designed around your specific operational reality.
You are accountable for the most regulated programs in public education, responsible for the most vulnerable students, managing the political complexity of sitting between building leadership and central office, and leading a team of professionals who are chronically undervalued and chronically overloaded. No generic framework was designed for that intersection. PULSE was.
I work with directors who are:
• New to the role or new to their district and need a diagnostic roadmap — not just good intentions
• Managing staffing under budget pressure and need workload data that can survive a board conversation
• Dealing with compliance exposure and need to stabilize before the next audit
• Experiencing culture or trust problems within their team that are affecting retention and outcomes
• Ready to build the operational structures that make their department sustainable — not just functional
Also a Strong Fit For:
SUPERINTENDENT / ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT:
If you have a student services director who is new, struggling, or managing a department in active instability — bringing in PULSE is a structured, cost-effective way to establish a health baseline, identify the most urgent risks, and build the stabilization plan. It's also a retention investment: directors who have structured support in the first year stay longer and perform better.
SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT TEAMS:
The Staff Reality Pulse instrument is specifically designed to give staff — teachers, SLPs, psychologists, OTs, PTs, social workers & school adjustment counselors — a structured and confidential way to report what they actually experience operationally. The findings feed directly into the departmental health assessment and are designed to be used alongside (not against) the leadership diagnostic.
FAMILIES AND PARENT COMMUNITIES:
I also work with families navigating the special education process — not as a traditional advocate attending IEP meetings, but as a coach who builds families' capacity to understand the system, know their rights, and advocate effectively without needing me in the room. If this is what you're looking for, reach out directly.
Let’s Chat!
Whether you're building from scratch or refining what’s already in place, we’re here to help. Let’s reimagine your supports with clarity, courage, and care.