How We Work
Importantly, transformative leaders center anti-racism and equity in all that we do.
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Participate in customized professional development & coaching
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STRATEGIC PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION
Map out a plan to achieve your organization’s ambitious goals
PROGRAM & SCHOOL DESIGN
Design, scale, or refine your initiative from the ground up
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POWERFUL IDEAS
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We support you and other senior leaders on your team to build upon your strongest assets and unpack key issues impeding your programmatic success or instructional outcomes.
We will:
- Assess your team in order to tailor our versatile professional development sessions, personalized coaching, and strategic thought partnership to maximize your individual and collective strengths
- Co-create a high-impact action plan that utilizes practical, timely next steps to generate the outcomes you desire
- Support you in implementing data-driven decision making or improving upon effective data systems and management strategies
We work with you to articulate your ambitious short- and long-term goals and cooperatively map out a plan to get you there.
We will:
- Adopt, revise, or collaboratively co-author your mission-critical goals and outline an actionable plan with key milestones
- Assess your capacity to reach desired outcomes, diagnosing and strategizing around gaps and leverage points as needed
- Support you in building a culture of co-creation and accountability with all key members of your community
- Assist you in creating an organization that will attract, hire, and support a diverse staff where people of all backgrounds find belonging and all are well-equipped to disrupt injustice both within and outside of the organization
We support you to design, scale, or improve your schools, nonprofits, government entities, and other initiatives from the ground up, positioning you to achieve brilliant results and lasting change.
We will:
- Provide intensive support, coaching, and tools to guide schools and programs through all phases of development, ensuring that your community thrives
- Support your design process from concept to full launch and scaling with a clear and intentional vision
- Cooperatively blueprint key elements of your model, codifying the strongest practices that align with your key needs
- Engage multiple voices in the design and improvement process, fostering meaningful collaboration and community
Our engaging speakers and trainers will help you conceptualize brilliant solutions for the toughest adaptive leadership challenges, centering equity in your work, and dismantling pervasive injustices.
We will:
- Support you in cultivating a work environment in which people feel motivated, equipped, and supported to lead with purpose, navigate challenges and conflict well, and disrupt inequities within your organization and community
- Deliver keynote talks to guide you and your team to espouse conscious leadership and systems thinking in your organizational priorities and practices, outlining an effective plan to make your commitments actionable
- Build strong competencies among key members of your community—systems leaders, boards, school administrators, staff, families, and students—and foster organization-wide mindsets that are anti-racist and equitable in every aspect of the work
We center equity in all of our work and support you to build and run organizations that dismantle pervasive injustices.
We will:
- Conduct a comprehensive equity audit and provide key recommendations for operating a more anti-racist and equitable workplace or school community
- Assist you in attracting, hiring, training, and supporting a diverse staff where people of all backgrounds find belonging and all are well-equipped to disrupt injustice both within and outside of the organization
- Guide you to meaningfully infuse equity into your organizational priorities and practices and build an effective strategic plan to make your commitments actionable
- Build strong competencies among all members of your organization–systems leaders and board, school leaders, staff, families, and students–and foster an organization-wide mindset that is anti-racist and equitable in every aspect of the work
- Build an equity-driven work environment in which people feel encouraged, supported, and equipped to speak up against inequities that surface within your institution
Mohawk Trail Regional High School
“Working with Firefly has been invaluable as our rural, mostly white school has begun to tackle the difficult work of diversity, equity, and inclusion . . . The trainings that Firefly has done with our whole staff have given us common vocabulary and understandings to work from, and the coaching sessions with Cheyenne have helped us be confident in our work.”
Democracy Prep Public Schools
“[They] have done an amazing job getting to know me as a leader, getting to know our organization (past, present, and future aspirations), and customizing our professional development to best meet our needs.”
NYC Department of Education
“I felt like she really understood the challenges we faced and gave us tangible next steps in what often felt like an overwhelming situation.”
Impact Public Schools
“[Cheyenne] has truly influenced my leadership during a critical time period. What I love most about her style is her ability to push me while remaining compassionate. She is deeply thoughtful and all of her work is intentional. She is as invested in our organization's mission as our leadership team.”
Mohawk Trail Regional High School
“I couldn't be more encouraged by the impact this partnership has had on our school community thus far, and I'm confident that this work will lead to lasting growth and change. The strategic planning process has proved to be both ambitious in scope and pragmatic in execution. Cheyenne broke our work into pieces, helped us identify our leadership strengths, take responsibility for several connected projects, and created a system for us to hold ourselves accountable for fast-paced progress with the work.”
NYC Department of Education
“Our consultation was motivating and helped us feel like we can begin to try out suggestions for how to build trust in our office . . . Your experience in the field of equity helps provide practical solutions to challenging and thorny problems [and] narrow down our issues to areas where we felt "stuck" or unclear.”
Susan L. Taylor, Founder & Editor-In-Chief Emeritus
National CARES Mentoring Movement & Essence Magazine