Joyfully Managed Worklife Waitlist

You’ve got too much on your plate.
Tasks are coming at you from everywhere - email, texts, Slack, project plans, calendar, goals documents, and during meetings.
Your days often feel like an endless series of frantic tasks, and you’re not sure it’s even on the right things to move your priorities forward.
You have tried so many tools, but things are sometimes still slipping through the cracks.
You have a sense that this all could be working better together - that finding practical strategies to put into place would help.

Look, we all want to do an incredible job at work + do it in a way that doesn’t feel chaotic. Is that too much to ask?!?

You’ve heard all of the typical advice - spend less time on screens. Ruthlessly prioritize. Get a morning routine. Meditate. Boss up.

But even finding time to implement those things feels impossible. You can’t pause to improve things, or it feels like the whole thing might fall apart .

I get it. I had to get to the point of being fully burnt out before I decided there had to be a better way. And I’ve spent years tweaking strategies and coaching others to implement. I want to share what I found with you.

This is a 6-week small group cohort that includes the support you need to really create the calm and effective work life you desire:

On-demand access to private community space with Jess and the others in the group for asking questions, getting support, and building your professional network with others in the cohort.
Live, proven-to-be-effective workshops created for real people who juggle the modern stress of leading teams, managing projects, raising families, and navigating the millions of other obligations nipping at our heels on any given day.
Planning your week live session. This workshop will support you, whether you like to get organized on paper or digitally, to put in place a proven weekly and daily planning process that works for you in your specific role and organization, including how to prioritize spending your time on the highest-leverage tasks and what to do when you inevitably must adjust because something changes mid-week.
Getting your email under control live session. We'll take your email inbox from a place of overwhelm to a much more effective tool for you at work, including guidance on how to keep your email inbox under control moving forward.
Refreshing your systems at work live session. Taking time to get your work systems freshened up is critical to being able to get "in flow" at work. We'll talk about the most impactful things to get polished up and create accountability and space together to make sure that actually happens.
Project management best practices live session. You'll leave with clarity on where your project management practices are strong and where you can take them to the next level. We'll have work time built in to plan next steps for a project your are managing right now or about to kick off.
Managing up, down, and laterally for results live session. We'll dive into practical and research-based strategies for managing a team at work, managing up to your boss, and managing laterally to external and internal colleagues to accomplish your most important work.
Managing your energy to avoid burnout live session. Taking time to replenish energy is key to being able to perform at our best. You will get a chance to assess their current energy levels in different aspects of life and create a realistic plan for how to rejuvenate yourself regularly.
Weekly workbooks & printables for all 6 weeks.
Recordings of all live sessions to revisit if helpful, or review if you cannot join a live session.

Hi, I’m Jess. I’ve been a classroom teacher, middle-manager, and a nonprofit Executive Director. I’m a mom of two. I’ve gotten to the point of being fully burnt out at work and needing to find a better way. I’ve coached hundreds of senior leaders and new leaders with different styles and approaches on how to get more organized at work. The feedback I’ve gotten is that their stress levels and effectiveness have significantly improved by using the strategies we have worked together to implement in their work lives.

I'm skeptical that an online cohort can actually help me get more organized. Let me share a few things that others have offered after joining one of my online workshops:

“As a neurodivergent person this was exactly what I needed. Thank you for easy to follow steps and easy to learn tools/strategies.” - Yasmin Navarro
“Jessica made the whole experience seem so intuitive - these changes and suggestions felt like a natural addition to my routine. I feel like a pro after only an hour-long workshop.” - Jenny Jordan
“I absolutely loved this course. It is very important to be organized for my team in emergency management. This is a great system!” - Kirstan Schmidt
"I was blown away by Jessica's workshop today - so powerful and down-to-earth. I love her approach and friendly touch to ease us all and help us organize. Jessica, thank you for delivering such an incredible tool/relief/blessing. You rock!" - Erika Gutierrez
“Jess's enthusiasm is matched with a clarity of purpose that is packaged in just-right bite sizes. She offers simple and actionable tools to make life smoother!” - Drea Beale

What are the dates? When are the live sessions?

The cohort will begin on Monday, January 29th and run through Friday, March 8, 2024.
The live sessions will be on 6 Tuesdays (Jan 30 - March 5) at 11am PT/2pm ET for 60-75 minutes each.
The sessions will be recorded for anyone unable to join live.

I don’t have time to participate in this - I’m already too busy!

I hear you. I know the Catch-22 well of wanting to find ways to make things less stressful and chaotic while not feeling capable of finding the energy and time to actually make those changes. In my experience, the support and accountability of joining a live experience is the one way that I’ve found to make changes in my life when I was struggling to prioritize those changes.

I've tried other organizational programs before, and they didn't work for me.

I’m not going to prescribe that you work in a particular way. I don’t think it’s effective to tell folks they should be using this particular task management system or notebook or planner or anything specific. Our brains all work differently. What is true is that there are some high-level frameworks, best practices, and approaches that have worked for hundreds of people who I’ve coached or supported in workshops. And I believe that they can work for you too. We’ll have lots of space for you to ask questions and design approaches that fit your role, your context, and your style.

I prefer to figure things out on my own rather than relying on a structured program.

I get it. I’m often in the same camp. And can I lovingly ask – how’s that going for you? I think the support of a group of others who are working on the same things - who GET it - is likely to feel really helpful for you and ensure you get much better results than going it on your own.

I can find plenty of free resources and tips online. Why should I pay for an live group experience?

You certainly can google some of these topics, and I bet you’ll get some tips! The magic is in the accountability to put them to work, tweak them to make them work for you, and do it in a strategic order that makes the most sense for how our brains work. I’ve worked with hundreds of folks and have learned a lot about what helps these practices actually stick, and I’d love to get you out of the search engine rabbit hole and into a better use of your time that actually works.

Who is this Jessica person running the course?

I’m based in the SF Bay Area (Brentwood to be specific), and I moved here earlier this year after living in Oakland, CA the last 20 years. I have two kids (ages 7 and 9.5). I started my career as a classroom teacher, began leading teacher professional development, and then was a co-founder to a nonprofit education advocacy organization where I led for 10+ years. Now I lead workshops and retreats for teams and create online resources to help folks get organized at work and home.