Coaching & Consulting Services
Six ways Vine works, ...
from the leader in the chair to the system that governs them all. Every engagement ends with something you keep: a rating, a rubric, a roadmap, a codified system, a decision you can defend.
1:1 Executive Coaching
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Leadership intake and diagnostic through surveys, interviews, and organizational data review
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Biweekly virtual or on-site coaching sessions (60–90 minutes) tailored to leader priorities
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Coaching focused on strengthening strategic leadership, organizational culture, and team management
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Leadership tools and resources, including a customized growth plan and communication strategies
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Optional on-site observation or strategy session to support implementation and leadership development
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Ongoing access between sessions for real-time guidance and support
Leaders gain the skills to lead with clarity, empower their teams and create conditions for transformational outcomes
1:1 Executive Coaching
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For CEOs, superintendents, executive directors, and principals who hold decisions no one else in the building can hold.
Leadership intake and diagnostic through surveys, interviews, and organizational data review
Biweekly virtual or on-site coaching sessions (60–90 minutes) tailored to leader priorities
Coaching focused on strengthening strategic leadership, organizational culture, and team management
Leadership tools and resources
Optional on-site observation or strategy session to support implementation and leadership development
Ongoing access between sessions for real-time guidance and support
Leadership Team Coaching
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Team diagnostic including staff surveys, student data, and leadership practices.
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Half-day or full-day facilitated workshops with actionable tools and frameworks.
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Monthly coaching sessions to sustain implementation.
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Final progress report with measurable outcomes tied to academic growth and staff performance.
Leadership and Governance Architecture
A documented coaching architecture your leaders can run without you. Scored, defensible hiring and evaluation instruments rather than impressions. A board that knows the difference between its work and the CEO's.
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Built for boards, CEOs and executive directors, school and instructional leadership teams, and organizations in transition.
Leadership
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Leadership team diagnostic: interviews, observation of coaching interactions, review of existing structures and data protocols
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Coaching architecture design, including observation cycles, feedback loops, and norming walk protocols
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Calibration to a shared instructional rubric and instructional practice guide
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Role clarity, decision rights, and trust-building across the leadership team
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Ongoing coaching of the coaches through implementation
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Governance
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Board governance retreats and board health assessment
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CEO and executive director evaluation systems
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Charter renewal readiness and authorizer relationship strategy
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Executive search facilitation, from candidate criteria through structured scoring, board interview design, and reference verification
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Founder transition and exit, including formal exit interview and knowledge capture
Leadership Team Coaching
Professional Learning & Workshops
Professional Learning & Workshops
A shared vision your team can say back to you in their own words, protocols they have already practiced using, and a follow-up structure so the learning has somewhere to go.
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Built for school staff, leadership cohorts, boards, nonprofit teams, and conference audiences.
Frequently requested
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Vision alignment. Rebuilding shared purpose after growth, turnover, consolidation, or drift, using trust as the working mechanism to realign on reliability commitments (non-negotiables)
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Trust as a leadership condition. Sincerity, competence, reliability, and care. What each one looks like when present, what breaks when it is missing, and how leaders rebuild the specific one that is broken.
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Instructional and system coherence. Getting adults to agree on what excellent looks like before asking them to coach toward it, and aligning the structures, protocols, and decisions that either reinforce that definition or quietly contradict it.
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Difficult conversations and honest feedback. Naming what is true and needed to meet/exceed goals.
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Partnership evaluation. Deciding whether to deepen, restructure, or exit.
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Board governance fundamentals. The line between board work and CEO work, and what happens when it blurs.
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Leading through transition, consolidation, and hard change.
Professional learning that builds capacity, aligns strategy, and drives sustained improvement.
School and Program Site Reviews
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Review of instructional plans, assessments, and outcome data
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On-site observations and stakeholder interviews
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Review of organizational systems, structures, and culture
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Written diagnostic report with prioritized recommendations
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90-minute debrief and action-planning session for leadership or board
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Optional follow-up coaching and progress monitoring
Systems Codification
Our codification work is authorizer- and state-agnostic by design, so it holds across jurisdictions and maps directly to accountability expectations wherever you operate.
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Built for schools and networks at the point of growth, funders standardizing assessment across a portfolio, and organizations facing founder transition.
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What you walk away with:
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A Systems Codification Framework documenting your model, scored on a four-level scale so you can see where a system is strong, thin, or absent
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An Expansion Theory of Action connecting what you do, to why it works, to what must stay fixed as you grow
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A Prioritization Roadmap sequencing the build, so leaders are not asked to fix everything at once
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Accountability integration mapping your systems against authorizer and state requirements
Non-Profit Program Reviews
Equipping organizations to align strategy, execution, and impact.
Strategic
Advising to Scale
Readiness Diagnostic and Site Reviews
Vine conducts independent, evidence-based assessment of whether an organization is actually ready to scale, replicate, renew, or launch. We report what we find, including the parts nobody wanted to hear.
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Built for philanthropic investors , authorizers, network and CMO boards, and schools preparing for expansion or charter renewal.
Partnering with leaders to expand what works and scale impact with intention
What you walk away with:
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A Scale Readiness Rating, scored by domain, with the evidence behind every score
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A risk profile naming the conditions that must be met before growth proceeds
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Classroom observation data analyzed into per-classroom and cross-classroom patterns
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A written report you can put in front of a funder, a board, or an authorizer without translation
Partnering with leaders to expand what works and scale impact with intention
Targeted Technical Assistance
Sector and Policy Capacity
What this includes:
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Coalition landscape mapping and engagement strategy
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Family and community voice infrastructure, designed to be sustained after the engagement ends
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Research translation that makes evidence usable by boards, candidates, and policymakers
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Convening and facilitation of school leaders around a shared agenda
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A findings and priorities document that carries into any room where decisions are being made
Develop the mindset, skills, and tools to lead with clarity, influence, and impact.
Vine's role is nonpartisan capacity-building. Clients retain full ownership of their advocacy positions, coalition messaging, and any political or candidate-facing activity.
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Built for education nonprofits, intermediaries, coalitions, funders, and advocacy organizations.