Coaching

Individual Coaching for Faculty

The Office of Faculty Affairs offers coaching for a select number of faculty and academic leaders. Our goal is to support faculty across the arc of a full career. Topics include augmenting productivity, navigating career changes, enhancing time / energy management, and enriching leadership skills.

The faculty member chooses a coaching goal that is explored within an affirming, safe environment that augments fruitful exploration and personalized advancement. Coaching can support faculty in setting well-targeted goals, developing action plans, increasing vital awareness, and establishing appropriate accountability. Coaching often brings greater clarity and fresh insights that inspire faculty to enact the change they seek. Coaching is distinguished from consultations, mentoring, or therapy in that coaches do not give advice or help process the past. Coaches may share resources as appropriate.

Faculty Affairs adheres to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) standards and ethics. ICF states that “Coaching is partnership (defined as an alliance, not a legal business partnership) between the Coach and the Client in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize personal and professional potential.”1

The Faculty Affairs coach is Mary Carney who holds an Associate Certified Coach credential from the ICF. She was trained in the Professional Coaching Program at Rice University Doerr Institute for Leadership.

To learn more, send an email to UGA Office of Faculty Affairs, Faculty and Leadership Development. A limited number of faculty will be accepted on a first come first serve basis. Dates and times are flexible.

¹ International Coaching Federation, ICF, “Sample Coaching Agreement,” https://coachfederation.org/app/uploads/2017/11/SampleCoachingAgreement.pdf (accessed 1/8/2021)