The world needs to hear your voice!

I’ve worked with hundreds of high achievers like you to find personalized strategies that help you fall back in love with writing and with your academic career.

Rather than a one-size-fits-all process, we will draw wisdom from your own unique history and use your core values to make decisions that help you write with more joy and purpose.

My coaching programs and workshops help you develop practical strategies and unshakable professional self-confidence, while also giving you ways to invest fully in other areas of your life.

The work I do with scholars ranges from walking you through the process of writing an attention-grabbing book proposal and chapters to helping you create, and commit to, a consistent writing schedule that lets you finish your manuscript without burning out.

Or, if you’ve hit a professional rut, I can help you get your career back on track!

Here are the ways I can help you

Writing Coaching
Your Words Unleashed is a 6-month intensive program for first-time scholarly authors that will help you master your writing habits and develop a more confident mindset
You will receive personalized guidance and support on everything related to:
  • Publishing a book, including putting together a sustainable writing plan
  • Making sure your proposal stands out
  • Contacting presses and getting a contract
  • And finishing the manuscript!
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Workshops
I lead three signature workshops for scholars at different stages of their writing and careers
  • Focused on a combination of writing and work-life balance, these coaching workshops are geared towards enhancing both scholarly productivity and personal well-being
  • Workshops are interactive and include individual, small, and large group activities and discussions
  • Participants come away with practical strategies and a renewed sense of clarity around their priorities that they can immediately apply to their work and life
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The Career Reset
The Career Reset is a 4-month intensive coaching program for overwhelmed academics who want to get their lives back on track.
You will receive personalized coaching to:
  • Clarify a career vision in line with your own values, needs, and priorities
  • Create space in your life for what really matters
  • Overcome internal obstacles that are keeping you stuck
  • Define what career and life success mean to YOU and take steps toward making that a reality
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Before working with Leslie, I was definitely in a toxic relationship with academia and my writing productivity. I have been able to heal my relationship to academia and my writing, and I feel more in control and empowered to exist in academia as a whole person, while letting go of perfectionism and unrealistic expectations of myself.”

J. Caraves, PhD Assistant Professor, UC Riverside, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies

Sign up for a free 30-minute consultation to tell me your writing goals and find out how I can help you achieve them:

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WHO AM I?

I’m a certified life coach and former tenured professor of Sociology who spent the past two decades in academia. Unlike a lot of other writing coaches, I’m also a researcher—a feminist ethnographer who has published two sole-authored books with university presses.

My coaching brings together an intimate understanding of writing, scholarly publishing, and the pressures (as well as pleasures) of academic life.

Now, even though I have all the necessary qualifications, what REALLY matters is that I’ve been exactly where you are now, and I can help you find your way with ease and grace.