Lead Change That Builds Trust and Traction: The LevelEDUp Change Management Playbook
Get Results
Without
Micromanaging.
A simple, repeatable playbook to align your team, strengthen ownership, and build momentum—without damaging trust.
X I barely have time to use the bathroom, much less prioritize my own development
X I already know what I *should* do—the hard part is doing it with the actual people I work with
X I’m in survival mode, just trying to get through the week. I can’t add anything else to my plate!
I’ve helped thousands of education and nonprofit leaders get clarity and alignment—even with full plates, limited time and complicated people dynamics.
Lead Change That Builds Trust and Traction: The LevelEDUp Change Management Playbook
Short, practical lessons, tools and templates you can use immediately, weekly live support, and direct access to me to help you apply a clear playbook on leading to your real team—on a busy schedule.
With Lead Change with Trust and Traction, Clear Confident Leadership is as Easy as 1, 2, 3
STEP
Clarify the Vision.
Get clear on what matters most right
now, what can wait, and how to move
priorities forward despite the everyday demands of the job.
STEP
Align the team.
Make ownership, expectations, and decision-making rights clear so people are rowing in the same direction.
STEP
Lead with Confidence.
Set clear expectations, follow up without awkwardness, and trust your team—stepping in when it’s appropriate and stepping back when it‘s not.
Lead Change That Builds Trust and Traction is a perfect fit for you if...
✅ You lead other leaders and are responsible for getting results through others.
✅ You are trying to enact real change and your people are tired and already feeling maxed-out.
✅ You supervise work you don’t fully understand or know all the details of.
By the End of Leading Change With Trust and Traction, You Will Have:
Become Incredibly Clear
You clearly name what matters now (and what can wait), so your work stops turning into constant triage.
Removed the Roadblocks
You identify what’s actually blocking progress and make targeted micro-moves that get things moving again.
Established Sustainable Rhythms
You set clear ownership and routines that work, so work gets done without hovering or repeated reminders.
Led Through Resistance with Confidence
You recognize early signs of pushback and respond in ways that keep trust intact and momentum going.
Created Clear Decision Making Rights
You clarify decision rights and expectations, so issues stop defaulting to you and leaders step up.
Handled Hard Conversation with Ease
You know what to say, what you’re asking for, and how you’ll follow up—without losing sleep over it or the pit in your stomach.
But the things you will love the most are:
Steady Confidence
You lead with a calm, clear presence—without second guessing yourself or overthinking every decision.
Shared Responsibility
The work stops defaulting to you—people own their pieces and follow through without constant reminders.
Momentum that Lasts
Progress keeps moving week after week because your team has simple rhythms that don’t burn everyone out.
“I wasn’t sure I had the time or brain space for this work—but it was practical, flexible, and realistic.” -Jen, Head of School
Lead Change That Builds Trust and Traction: The LevelEDUP Change Management Playbook
is Open and Will Change Your Life...
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
3 MONTHLY PAYMENTS
WHAT OTHER LEADERS SAY
“After working with Beth, everyone at my organization knows how we operate, make decisions and work together.”
-Jeremy, Principal
“After working with Beth, we walked away with a clear plan and a tool we can use again for future projects.”
-Sean, Co-Founder
“Beth is supportive and results-oriented. She provides the structure that allows you to be successful, and I learned how to balance support and accountability in a way that actually works.”
-Robin, Principal
“With Beth, you feel completely safe, supported, and challenged in the right ways.”
-Kristen, Grade Level Chair
WHAT’S INSIDE
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET INSIDE LEAD CHANGE THAT BUILDS TRUST AND TRACTION
LIFETIME ACCESS TO CONTENT ON-DEMAND
(so you can learn whenever you have time!)
MODULE 1
Charting the Path Ahead: Defining your desired destination, starting point and route
You’ll analyze the dimensions and size of your desired change, develop an incredibly clear destination, assess your current state, and map a realistic path from intention to action—with tools to make it concrete.
In this module, you go from “everything feels urgent” to a clear, shared direction your team can actually align around—with a clear strategy on what you’re prioritizing and why.
MODULE 2
Understanding Change Management
We’ll get into the change research that has real world impacts, analyze why change gets hard in predictable ways, and learn how to turn those insights into practical tools you’ll use in the moment—not theory.
In this module, you’ll learn the patterns of change so you can anticipate pushback and energy dips. In this module, you become calmer and more strategic, able to respond to resistance without taking it personally or inadvertently escalating the situation.
MODULE 3
Strengthening Teams and Trust
Inside this module, you will learn how trust really works day-to-day, what to do when trust is strained, how to take your team’s pulse efficiently so you can adapt your approach and how to show professional care without lowering the bar--including scripts for repair in all kinds of situations and low lift ways to show care and build trust.
In this module, you learn how to raise clarity and accountability while protecting trust—so progress doesn’t depend on you managing every detail or carrying every relationship.
MODULE 4
Identifying Impediments: Common Barriers That Block Progress
This module has an amazing and clear diagnostic to pinpoint what’s getting in the way—org-level issues, team-level barriers (e.g., roles, decision rights, overload, misalignment), and your own capacity constraints—plus a way to interpret results and choose the next right moves for your situation.
In this module, you get clear and energizing information on what’s really stalling change--so your next steps are targeted, not scattered, and you don’t burn energy on the wrong fix.
MODULE 5
From Stuck to Success: Strategies to Rescue and Realign Your Change Efforts
This module will be many people’s favorites because it is packed with practical solutions that match your assessment results in the previous module. Whether it’s how to reset your presence and energy, creating purpose-driven urgency, distributing ownership across your team, realigning priorities, design cascading communication through layers, or responding when organizational issues interfere, you will find valuable tools you return to time and again to help make leading easier.
This module helps your reality transform into shared ownership and real traction with simple moves that steady the team and get the work moving again.
MODULE 6
Integrating Change: Getting to “this is just the way we do things”
In this module, you will learn how to incorporate these changes into the day-to-day, including how to mark progress in ways that build beliefs and organizational resilience, and how to embed what worked into rhythms, routines, and culture—so the change doesn’t fade as soon as attention shifts.
This module will help you move from “we tried that once” to sustained change—where the work holds up over time and doesn’t slide back onto your plate or regress.
WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE WEEK-TO-WEEK
Coworking LIVE (optional)
Office Hours LIVE (optional)
ENROLL TODAY
AND YOU’LL GET THESE EXTRA BONUSES (FOR FREE!)
The Momentum Lab
$1,500 VALUE
INCLUDES:
Weekly Office Hours where you can ask anything on your mind (even if you can’t make it live!) and get coaching and advice on your particular situation.
Structured optional weekly coworking sessions to make sure you maintain momentum and get support to complete the course.
Daily support and access to Beth for 8 weeks—you can get feedback on your drafts and have an expert on call alongside you as you dig into the work.
The Traction Toolkit
$597 VALUE
INCLUDES:
This diagnostic, scoring guide and Roadblock-to-Results Map will be a tool you return to again and again for years!
This toolkit alone replaces weeks of guessing and helps you distill what the key blockers are—and what to do about them.
These tools help you get the right fix fast—showing you exactly what to do next. As the context shifts, you can come back to these tools again and again to keep getting the next best step to take.
The People-Centered Change Kit
$597 VALUE
INCLUDES:
These practical, turnkey tools help you make sure you keep your people aligned and with you.
Scripts and templates give you the exact language to use—whether you are starting something new, gathering feedback or resetting.
These tools lead to clearer conversations, less tension and stronger relationships that hold up under pressure.
THE DETAILS
HERE’S WHAT YOU’RE GETTING WHEN YOU ENROLL IN LEAD CHANGE THAT BUILDS TRUST AND TRACTION
✅ 6 modules showing you step-by-step how to lead change with trust and traction, full of practical tools, real-world examples and work you can turn around with your team immediately.
✅ The Momentum Lab has 8 weeks of interactive support: weekly office hours weekly office hours for all your questions, optional coworking sessions to make sure you stay on track, and daily access to Beth for all your feedback, requests and questions.
✅ The Traction Toolkit is an essential tool to diagnose what’s actually blocking progress and helps you determine the right next step to get back on track.
✅ The People Centered Change Kit gives you team-facing tools, scripts and templates to use to make sure you can build trust while leading change.
Over $2,690 worth of expert guidance and support with strategic, practical tools that transform your leadership—ALL yours for just $497.
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
3 MONTHLY PAYMENTS
Plus You’ll be Backed by a
Risk-Free 14 Day Guarantee
We wholeheartedly believe in the transformation provided by Leading Change with Trust and Traction, which is why we offer a 14-day risk-free guarantee. We want you to join without any reservations, so here's how it works: After enrolling, you can dive into the first two modules risk-free and truly explore everything Lead Change with Trust and Traction has to offer. If you find that it's not the perfect fit, simply show us that you've put in the effort—submit the worksheets from the completed modules—and we’ll gladly process your refund. It's that simple. Our main goal is your satisfaction and progress.
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Yes! Many of our clients use dedicated funding streams like ESSER, EANS, Title I/IDEA, Title II, Title IV, CARES Act, CRRSA, Rescue Plan or similar federal, state or local sources for this investment. We are happy to provide any documentation or complete any applications that may be required for you for this to qualify for restricted funding.
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I get it, I’ve been there! This is designed for leaders with overloaded calendars. The core content is concise and asynchronous—so you can learn when it works for you (there’s even an audio feed like a private podcast). The live support of the Momentum Lab exists to save you time by helping you focus on what actually matters.
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I get it, your role is complex. This is designed to reduce the complexity, not add to it. While there are things you need to do and complete, the program is designed so you can consume it in a way that works for you (for example, listen on a commute or as you exercise!).
The tools and templates will help lead to fewer moving parts, clear ownership and a more easeful way of leading.
Please feel free to schedule a no-pressure 15-minute call with me here to ask any questions that might help you get more clarity.
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Totally get it! In fact, I have a whole packet of information here you can use to request approval from your supervisor before proceeding.
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I’ve wasted time in professional development before—I am passionate about never wasting any leader time. Every single thing about this course is designed to be applied to real-life situations you are dealing with right now, ripped from the headlines, with live support to help you through the murky parts and turn your ideas into action. Virtually all my students mention using the insights immediately!
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Yes. We can provide documentation to verify your completion so that you get credit hours.
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I have a limited number of need-blind partial scholarships available. There’s more information and a short application here if you need that option. I never want cost to be a barrier to serving leaders!
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You will have 8 Office Hours sessions where you can ask me questions about your specific situation—either live on the call or by submitting the questions ahead of time for me to answer and you to view the recording. You can DM me at any time in the course and send drafts of documents, communication, etc. to me for feedback. This is about supporting your leadership to make it easier.
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If you need to pay with a purchase order or request an invoice, that’s no problem—Directions Here.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any specific questions you may have about invoicing or payment.
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It’s amazing when multiple people from the same organization enroll at the same time—it supercharges the impact! When you enroll, there is a chance to put the name and email address of the student, so you can absolutely sign someone else up. If you are interested in enrolling 5 or more people, reach out here and I’ll provide a 20% group discount code.
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I have worked with thousands of leaders in my career in mission-driven contexts and I promise you this all works in the real-world—not ideal conditions that only exist in an imaginary world. We also have a 14-day risk free money back guarantee so you can try it out and see for yourself how it fits your dynamics.
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Personally, I believe PD is a work expense, but I have been in enough situations myself to know that sometimes paying out of pocket is what’s necessary at a moment in time. No matter who pays, the LevelEDUp Change Management Playbook you’ll learn in Lead Change That Builds Trust and Traction means you’ll stop feeling like everything depends on you and start leading with shared ownership, steady momentum and trust intact.
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There’s no falling behind here—I’m very anti-leader guilt trips. You have lifetime access to all the course content and bonuses as well as recordings of any all live sessions, so you can move through it in a way that actually works for your schedule—many leaders choose to binge the material when they have a focused block of time; others like to complete it week by week. Up to you!
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I totally get it—you are doing important work, time is your valuable resource and this needs to help solve the problems you have. If you want to talk it through, you’re welcome to book a short 15-minute, no-pressure clarity call with me. You can tell me what you’re hoping this will help with and I will tell you honestly if this is a good option given your particular context.
Have Questions? I've Got Answers!
Ready to learn a simple, repeatable playbook you can tailor to your team?
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Are You Ready To:
Have you and your team get clear on what matters most and stop spending your days reactively?
Share ownership with your teammates so progress doesn’t rely on you too much of the time?
Embrace accountability—without the ick—that helps your organization get real follow-through and traction?
Stay calm and confident through the ups and downs of leadership and lead getting traction with trust?
Leadership can feel lighter without lowering the bar.
(But you know that.)
You know there has to be a better way.
You had deep motivations for wanting to make an impact in your role and aren’t there yet. You are eager to be fired up and inspired and you know this course would do that for you.
You’re not afraid of hard work.
You know how to grind, and while this course definitely is work, it’s work that will help you lead more efficiently. Time spent on this creates more time for you because you are able to lead more efficiently, choosing the right solutions to push.
Starting today (with expert guidance) means getting there sooner.
You don’t know all the steps but you’re willing to trust the (proven) process.
Join Lead Change That Builds
Trust and Traction Today
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
3 MONTHLY PAYMENTS
I founded a successful school and got results—but the cost was real.
Well after midnight, I stared at my computer, wanting to bang my head against the wall—but realized the noise might wake one of my three children under age 4.
I had founded and was in the midst of leading a school—chasing academic gains and long-term impact in a community that had a deep need. Progress felt painfully slow. We had tight plans, productive meetings, and good people working hard… but the needle wasn’t moving. I couldn’t shake the question: what will it actually take to make this happen?
Over time, I learned something I wish someone had told me sooner: there’s a rhythm to how change works. Once you understand that rhythm, change stops feeling like a force you’re trying to wrestle into place. You can take it apart, strengthen the weak links, and rebuild momentum—without burning trust along the way.
Every organization is special, but not unique. Your context matters, but the patterns are remarkably consistent. Leaders get stuck. They’re stretched thin. They’re reactive for far too much of the day. Priorities get blurry.
Since I founded LevelEDUp Leadership in 2021, I’ve helped countless leaders streamline their goals and reset their teams so their people are more focused—and more energized. When the leadership moves get clearer, the work gets easier—for everyone
That’s why I created this course: a practical, repeatable playbook for leading change with trust and traction—so you can feel steady, confident, clear, and purposeful, and stop carrying the whole thing alone.
If you’re willing to look in the mirror and shift how you lead, this will change what’s possible.
I’ve taken what I’ve learned and created a practical course jam-packed with useful tools and templates so you can learn what I did (in weeks, not years!).
Join Lead Change That Builds
Trust and Traction Before It Closes.
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3 MONTHLY PAYMENTS