About Bridget...
Bridget Doogan is a consultant and coach who specializes in supporting individuals and communities to adapt and thrive through challenge and change. She is an Adaptive Schools Training Associate, and an ICF credentialed coach with certifications in Cognitive Coaching, Wayfinder Life Coaching and Positive Psychology.
Bridget works with leaders and aspiring leaders in personal professional growth to develop the mindsets, habits and practices of adaptive self-leadership. She leads seminars, facilitation and coaching internationally and virtually.
Bridget's career in international education includes serving as a professional learning leader, curriculum coordinator, and teacher at all levels. She is the former Director of Professional Learning for NESA and worked extensively with International Schools Services developing curriculum and professional learning programs for startup schools. Additionally, Bridget served as a consultant and trainer trainer for the Danielson Group, developing professional growth systems based on the Framework for Teaching, and taught as an adjunct professor in Buffalo State SUNY's International Graduate Programs.
My Self-Leadership Journey
This course arose from a career as a professional learning leader in international schools experiencing and observing the very high demands on the personal resources and wellbeing of leaders.
Like so many of my colleagues, I was a competent, capable leader. I led and lived with purpose, perseverance and impact. I leveraged my strengths and personal mission to do the work I set out to do - of building professional communities to provide the best possible education to the children we served.
Having a powerful sense of mission and shared purpose is highly energizing. Positive experiences, milestones, achievements offset the challenges that are inevitably encountered. But education makes infinite demands and it can be hard to retain sufficient levels of resourcefulness and resilience and positive energy.
Seeing these patterns and recurring cycles in myself and others, I recognized a knowledge gap. It led me on an exploration of the literature around well being, professional culture, positive psychology, neuroscience, social emotional learning, recovery and resilience, emotional agility and more.
In the leadership preparation literature scant attention is paid to these aspects of leadership, which are often dismissed as soft skills. But there is nothing soft about the principles, mindsets and practices I acquired in this pursuit. This course represents the curriculum I wish I had learned and that I believe will support others.
