Lead from within

Transformational coaching for school leaders & educators

With a Registered Psychologist

Grounded in Internal Family Systems

You’re committed to making a difference—for your students, your team, your school community. But the demands of leadership can take a toll on your clarity, confidence, and capacity.

  • Maybe you're carrying the emotional load for everyone around you

  • Maybe you're stuck in overdrive—constantly striving, rarely pausing

  • Maybe you sense there’s a more grounded, effective way to lead—but you're not sure how to access it

This isn’t about working harder or adding more to your plate. It’s about building the inner foundation to lead with greater presence, purpose, and impact.

IFS coaching helps you reconnect with your internal resources—so you can meet challenges with clarity, make decisions from a centred place, and lead in a way that sustains you.

Because when you strengthen what’s within, everything else starts to align.

Strengthen your inner foundation. Expand your outer impact.

Support you deserve as a school leader

Untangle the inner dynamics

That shape how you lead—like striving, second-guessing or taking on too much—and make space for more ease and clarity

Reclaim your clarity and confidence

By strengthening your inner leadership and building emotional resilience from the inside out

Realign your goals with your values

So you can lead with purpose, make an impact—and work in a way that truly sustains you

Why I do this work

Hello, I’m Jodie Benveniste

Psychologist, Coach, Former School Board Chair

I’ve walked alongside school leaders and educators for much of my career. I know the deep care you bring to your work—and the toll it can take.

As a registered psychologist and former Chair of the Board at an Independent School, I’ve seen how the pressures of leadership can erode your wellbeing from the inside out.

I’ve also felt it myself.

What changed everything for me was discovering Internal Family Systems (IFS)—a powerful approach to personal change that’s not only transformed my work, but profoundly changed my life.

After experiencing burnout and living with a relentless inner critic, IFS helped me understand what was happening beneath the surface. By learning to relate to my inner parts with compassion rather than judgment, everything began to shift.

Now, I bring this approach into my coaching work:

To support school leaders like you to meet your own needs with the same compassion you offer everyone else.

To help you shift from burnout to balance, self-doubt to self-trust, and survival mode to sustainable leadership.

Real support for the real work of leading schools and shaping lives.

Support that strengthens your leadership

You might be here because:

  • You’re exhausted from holding it all together, and something has to change

  • You keep trying to fix things—your mindset, your schedule, your workload—but it never seems to be enough

  • You want to keep showing up for your role, but in a way that feels more grounded, spacious, and true to you

  • You’re ready to expand your leadership capacity—and reconnect with the purpose that brought you here in the first place

Together, we’ll:

  • Explore the inner patterns that drive your leadership style—and where they’re helping or hurting

  • Understand and work with parts of you that over-function, over-care, or over-stretch

  • Reconnect to your calm, clear, capable Self—and make space for a new way of leading

This is support that strengthens you from the inside out.

Stronger on the inside. Clearer on the outside.

What makes this coaching different

Most leadership development focuses on what you do—strategy, systems, and skills.

IFS coaching focuses on who you are—and how your inner world shapes the way you lead.

This approach is about more than resilience or emotional intelligence.

It’s about building the internal clarity, capacity, and self-leadership needed to thrive in a complex, highly-demanding environment.

IFS coaching helps you:

  • Gain insight into the internal dynamics that shape your decisions, relationships, and leadership style

  • Develop compassionate self-awareness that strengthens—not softens—your leadership presence

  • Shift unhelpful patterns at the heart, rather than managing symptoms at the surface

  • Expand your capacity to lead with clarity, courage, and emotional agility

  • Align your leadership with your core values—so your impact is not just sustainable, but personally fulfilling

Because the most effective leaders lead from within.

IFS coaching packages for school leaders & educators

Build inner clarity, emotional resilience, and sustainable leadership

Empowered Presence

4 months | 4 sessions

Enhance your impact with spacious, steady support

Ideal for leaders who want to reconnect with themselves, build emotional resilience, and sustain their leadership in a way that feels aligned—not exhausting.

Includes:

  • 4 x 60-minute coaching sessions (monthly)

  • Fortnightly email check-ins to support integration and reflection

  • Responsive email support for questions and guidance between sessions

  • Tailored tools and resources to deepen learning and support real-world application

A steady rhythm of reflection and recalibration for those ready to lead with more calm, clarity, and self-trust.

Aligned Impact

6 months | 6 sessions

Deepen your clarity, capacity, and confidence as a leader

This more intensive package is for those ready to shift long-standing patterns, increase emotional agility, and align their leadership with their values and vision.

Includes:

  • 6 x 60-minute coaching sessions (monthly)

  • Fortnightly email check-ins to stay connected and accountable

  • Ongoing email support to navigate challenges and maintain momentum

  • Personalised resources and practices to strengthen insight and impact

Greater alignment on the inside means greater effectiveness on the outside.

 Answers to common questions

  • We’ll explore the patterns and pressures shaping your current challenges—like overwhelm, self-doubt, or reactivity.

    Through IFS-informed coaching and psychological insight, we’ll uncover what’s beneath the surface and build supportive, personalised strategies to help you lead with clarity, confidence, and calm.

  • Between sessions, you’ll receive check-ins, email support, and practical resources—so the work continues, even when we’re not meeting.

    It’s structured, steady support to help you stay grounded, clear, and aligned as you lead.

  • Sessions are arranged to suit your availability, with flexible scheduling that works alongside your school and life commitments.

  • No. While I’m a registered psychologist, IFS coaching is not therapy.

    It’s a non-clinical process focused on self-leadership, emotional clarity, and sustainable growth in your role as an educator.

Ready to lead from within?

Fill in the contact form to enquire about a coaching package and explore what kind of support would best meet your needs.

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