REIMAGINE YOUR EXTRAORDINARY
EMPOWERING YOUR POSSIBILITIES
As a luminary of local government, you’re likely driven by a deep commitment to public service and a desire to make a PROFOUND IMPACT on the vitality of your community. You have a significant sense of civic responsibility and connection with the unique challenges your community members face.
Working at the hands-on, grassroots level allows you to foster inclusive, transparent and responsive governance, implementing tangible, innovative solutions to enhance overall quality of life. And it’s because of this visionary dedication that you harbor BIG IDEAS to next-level your organization’s ability to deliver.
ENTER ReimagineGov
As your partner in reimagining what’s possible, together we’ll translate these aspirations into tangible realities, ensuring YOUR FORWARD-THINKING INITIATIVES are implemented strategically to maximize their positive and lasting impact.
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Embracing a transformative approach called Embark — that combines MINDFULNESS, REIMAGINATION & STRATEGY — empowers you to cultivate focus and creativity as you reimagine new solutions and approaches, and implement them strategically, so you can transform these ambitious gems into meaningful enhancements.
Imagine the dynamic organization you’ll foster, the heightened stakeholder satisfaction you’ll generate and the cutting-edge environment you’ll create, positioning you as a MODEL ORGANIZATION & the driving force behind a FLOURISHING COMMUNITY.
Hello! I'm Trie, a former City Communications Director and the first female Deputy Mayor of Bloomington, Ind., turned mindful high-performance coach and strategist.
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It's pretty clear there's a most unfortunate swirl of disharmony and sometimes total chaos when it comes to operating with trust, effectiveness and innovation on the national level.
As such, local government has a tremendous opportunity to TAKE THE LEAD IN LEADING.
Local government has long been doing things right as the BACKBONE of society. And we need these vital organizations to perform at their highest possible levels now more than ever.
Not too much pressure there(!), especially when facing issues like financial constraints, employee engagement, attraction and retention and high community expectations. But if anyone can meet and exceed the challenge, it is local government.
Now is the time to transform what needs tweaking, innovate what needs an overhaul and reimagine what needs a completely new idea to enter the arena.
Through personalized coaching, training and strategic solutions, hands-on experience, expertise and passion allow us to COLLABORATE in advancing your leadership and operations. Learn about the ReimagineGov advantage.
Whether your focus is:
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TOGETHER LET'S TRANSCEND YOUR TOMORROW, STARTING TODAY.
LEADERSHIP REDEFINED
ONE-TO-ONE COACHING OF TOP LEADERSHIP — CITY MANAGERS, COUNTY MANAGERS, ASSISTANTS CMs, MAYORS & DEPUTY MAYORS
Think of personal coaching with ReimagineGov like having a wise mentor who's been there — imagine tuning in to your own wisdom and gaining perspective from a former deputy mayor turned high-performance coach.
It's not just a coaching session; it's an holistic investment in yourself. This isn't dry leadership theory; it's a mindful approach to enriching those skills that truly matter in the real-world hustle of local government leadership.
So, you're not just getting coaching; you're creating a mindset shift that transforms how you lead your community. It's a dynamic journey toward impactful mindful leadership that leaves you ready to make history.
MINDFUL LEADERSHIP COACHING SUPPORTS TOP LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEADERS WITH:
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High Performance
Ushering in maximization of leadership time and talent by empowering leaders to get into their flow zone and perform at their peak level more consistently.
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Enhanced Creativity & Vision
Elevating the leader on a transformative journey, unlocking visionary problem-solving and reimagining the way their organization operates.
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Smooth Sailing Through Challenges
Equipping the leader with strategic insights, a compass for seamless navigation through governance complexities.
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Team Harmony Mastery
Communicating effectively, strengthening the leader's influence as a maestro of team management.
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Clear & Compelling Communication
Boosting internal and external communications and with consistent messaging across platforms, fostering community engagement while maintaining a positive city image.
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Intentional Decision Making
Providing a seasoned perspective, serving as a trusted sounding board for critical decisions.
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Crafting Innovative Strategy
Empowering the leader as a strategic architect, armed with acumen for forward-thinking strategies that are implemented effectively.
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Top Talent Retention
Building, leading and nurturing an enduring dream team, vital for the organization's success.
WHY IT MATTERS
Investing in personalized coaching for key decision-makers ensures they are equipped with the resilience, adaptability and strategic acumen needed to guide their organization through uncertainties, make informed decisions and effectively steer local governments toward success. In doing so, they become not only adept leaders but also inspirational figures who set the tone for a resilient and forward-thinking organizational culture.
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A CREATIVE, COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
ONE-TO-ONE & SMALL GROUP MINDFUL LEADERSHIP COACHING OF YOUR DEPARTMENT HEADS FOR PERFORMANCE, LEADERSHIP & COLLABORATION
Envision breaking free from traditional silos as Department Heads become powerful leaders of multi-departmental teams, infusing creativity and cost-effective solutions into every challenge. It's about leveraging the collective intelligence of your leadership team for holistic success.
With a wealth of experience as a former deputy mayor overseeing 15 department heads, I intimately understand the unique needs, goals and challenges faced by city government leaders. Drawing on my background, which included reinventing the way strategic planning, budgeting and innovation were tackled by spearheading a multi-departmental team approach, my individual and small-group coaching services are designed to empower Department Heads in honing their skills, fostering collaboration and navigating the intricacies of local governance.
Through targeted coaching, my team and I offer a transformative approach aimed at enhancing individual and collective performance, fostering mindful leadership practices and equipping department heads with the tools needed to excel in their roles. Together, we can unlock the full potential of city departments, ensuring a cohesive and effective approach to governance that ultimately benefits both leaders and the communities they serve.
WHY IT MATTERS
The result? Department Heads who embrace reimagining what’s possible, make informed decisions and embody enhanced leadership qualities, creativity and effective communication with one another, their staff and top leadership.
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EMPOWERED, HIGH PERFORMING EMPLOYEES
ONE-TO-ONE & SMALL GROUP, EMPOWERMENT COACHING FOR YOUR VALUED EMPLOYEES
Recognizing the importance of your workforce, ReimagineGov offers holistic coaching as a strategic investment in your employees' performance and well-being.
Engaged, happy and healthy employees are the cornerstone of a powerful public sector environment, contributing to a positive, dynamic and effective workplace culture that radiates throughout your organization.
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Talent Recruitment & Retention
Intensifying competition requires customized coaching strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals.
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Succession Planning Excellence
Implementing personalized coaching solutions for robust succession planning ensures seamless leadership transitions and makes promoting from within a significant part of the employee career experience.
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Strategic Staff Development
Invest in tailored training and professional development through expert coaching, enhancing employees' skills to navigate complex challenges effectively.
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Employee Engagement & Organizational Success
Elevate organizational success by addressing workplace stress, enhancing communication and fostering a positive culture.
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Enhanced Workplace Focus
Life coaching cultivates clarity and intentionality, translating into heightened focus and productivity at work. As individuals become happier and more centered in their personal lives, these positive attributes naturally extend to their professional endeavors.
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Improved Emotional Well-Being
A happier and morE emotionally balanced individual is better equipped to navigate workplace challenges. Life coaching, by promoting personal growth and contentment, contributes to emotional resilience, fostering a positive mindset and adaptability in the professional sphere.
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Elevated Decision-Making Skills
Boost effective decision-making skills by providing individuals with tools to weigh priorities, align choices with values, and consider long-term goals. This newfound clarity translates directly into more thoughtful and strategic decision-making in the workplace.
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Increased Accountability & Productivity
Life coaching instills accountability and a sense of purpose. As individuals develop actionable plans and commit to personal growth, this discipline naturally extends to their professional responsibilities, resulting in increased productivity and a proactive approach to achieving workplace objectives.
WHY IT MATTERS
Providing Empowerment Coaching as a benefit has been a strategy invoked by several of the top performing companies on the planet. Your organization can demonstrate its true commitment to innovation by being at the forefront of implementing this approach on the local government level.
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A STRATEGIC PLAN TO GUIDE YOUR VISION
A STRATEGIC PLAN GUIDES YOUR INNOVATIVE VISION AND DIRECTS SPOT-ON BUDGETING & DECISION MAKING WHILE RESONATING WITH YOUR STAFF & MULTIPLE EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS
Crafting a robust strategic plan is pivotal for translating your top leader's visionary aspirations into tangible actions that positively shape the community. This plan serves as a roadmap, outlining clear goals and actionable steps toward a bold and transformative future.
Crucially, the strategic plan must connect directly with your budget, ensuring precious and often scarce financial resources align with the outlined priorities. The symbiotic relationship between planning and budgeting creates a framework for efficient resource allocation, enhancing the plan's feasibility and impact.
Inclusivity is paramount; involving both staff and the public ensures diverse perspectives shape the plan and address needs holistically. By fostering collaboration and seeking input, the strategic plan becomes a shared vision, fostering a sense of staff and community ownership.
An effective plan doesn't merely articulate lofty goals. It is the blueprint for carrying out the organization’s innovative programs, projects and services. Its language excludes bureaucratic jargon and is inspiring and actionable, motivating staff and engaging the public by emphasizing the transformative journey ahead.
By also developing a clear strategy for the plan’s implementation, communication and accountability, your strategic plan becomes a living document, resonating with all stakeholders, guiding decision-making and propelling the community toward a brighter future.
WHY IT MATTERS
An excellent strategic plan is the foundation of effective governance. Because you build it around a big vision, you know why you do things and what your spending priorities are. Your decision making becomes so much easier, and your employees understand the essential role they play in carrying out your collective plan. The public and your community partners have a clear understanding of your purpose and commitment to important quality of life services and inititiaves.
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THE ReimagineGov ADVANTAGE
DRAWING ON MY DUAL EXPERTISE AS AN INNOVATIVE GOVERNMENT LEADER & CERTIFIED HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH, ReimagineGov STANDS UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO PROPEL YOUR ORGANIZATION INTO NEW REALMS OF POSSIBILITY.
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Passionate Leadership
You can take the gal out of government but never the government out of the gal! With fervor, I am committed to unlocking the full potential of your leadership and staff, creating a ripple effect that positively transforms your entire organization and community. Through personalized one-on-one coaching, dynamic small group sessions, and strategic planning support, ReimagineGov empowers you to reimagine, innovate, and transform your service delivery.
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Collaborative Innovation
Teams are where it’s at! My tenure as deputy mayor emphasized championing multi-departmental teams for numerous initiatives, a departure from traditional siloed approaches. This shift led to more creative and cost-effective outcomes, harnessing diverse perspectives for holistic success. ReimagineGov focuses on leveraging collective intelligence for strategic success, not just in planning but in execution.
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Transformative Budgeting
Odds are, money will always be a limited resource in local government! My track record includes transformative impacts on budgeting processes. I reinvented the entire process — taking it from the traditional siloed approach of Department Heads presenting a version with a 2% reduction and a state quo version to a collaborative, team, zero-based approach that tied directly to our strategic plan. This transformation allowed us to maximize resources, eliminate redundancies, refine line items and identify far better ways to deliver services.
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True Innovation
Innovation sounds great, but how can you do it on an impactful scale? I pulled together a multi-departmental innovation team — featuring staff experts at all level of the organization — that identified $6 million in efficiencies and improvements, showcasing a commitment to innovation and fiscal responsibility. Imagine being able to redirect these resources toward infrastructure, impactful initiatives and community development.
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Mindful Leadership & Empowerment Coaching
Deep and nonjudgmental listening, powerful questions and insights, total confidentiality and a touch of mindfulness to reduce stress and increase focus, calm, creative thinking and presence are game changers! As a certified mindful transformation coach, I bring this wealth of experience into personalized sessions, integrating mindfulness and strategy for enhanced leadership, collaboration and effective communication. ReimagineGov unlocks the full potential of local government, offering a significant personal and professional return on investment.
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Practical Expertise
There are plenty of excellent coaches, but none with my specific blend of experience, education, and coaching, writing, training and teaching abilities. And I parter with first-class coaches and consultants when your project needs additional resources. Built on practical experience and an in-depth understanding of local government intricacies, ReimagineGov invites you to embark on a transformative journey together. Elevate your organization to unprecedented heights with a partner that combines visionary leadership with actionable strategies.
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Learning From Experience
I wish then-me had now-me as a coach! Having thrived as both Communications Director and Deputy Mayor, I navigated a learning curve, often teaching myself crucial skills like budgeting and strategic planning. Often serving as the go-between for the mayor and staff, political navigation became a skill honed on the job. Reflecting on my journey, I realize the immense value a trusted coach would have brought—guidance that would have mitigated mistakes and alleviated stress, offering a smoother path to success.
ALL ABOUT TRIE
My entrée into government was launched when I was approached by a man running for mayor. He asked me to run his campaign because he’d seen how impactful my marketing was for multiple clients, and he knew I’d work relentlessly. I did. He won. Big. A year later I joined his administration as Communications Director, serving for three years before being promoted to the City of Bloomington, Indiana’s, first female Deputy Mayor.
Working closely with the Mayor and 15 excellent Department Heads & staff, I helped strengthen Bloomington’s vitality and enhance the 750-person organization’s outcomes by:
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Introducing, directing and developing every aspect of the City’s first-ever strategic plan, which provided a powerful vision and guidance for staff and a clear vision for the public and other vital stakeholders. Leaders from several other cities contacted my team and me to ask who had developed our strategic plan.
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Developing the Strategic Task Action Report (STAR) system to track progress of the strategic plan’s major initiatives, which served as a tool that boosted organization, accountability and communication.
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Assembling and leading a team that identified $6 million in innovations, which empowered all levels of staff to contribute their insights and develop new ideas to produce far greater outcomes with impact, collaboration and creativity.
- Reinventing the budgeting process to make it cross-departmental, zero-based and tied directly to strategic goals so that the link among vision, strategy, funding, decision making and talent contribution was maximized.
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Setting policy, managing the Office of the Mayor and collaborating with staff to ensure the Mayor's vision and the City's top goals and projects were realized, streamlining and bringing clarity to the process.
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Developing and directing the Mayor’s Strategic Initiatives: Community Commerce, Community Condition, Community Collaboration and Community Character.
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Co-founding the City's award-winning entertainment and arts district with our economic development team.
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Introducing a team approach to City management to eliminate silos, which dramatically enhanced organizational outcomes and boosted staff empowerment, performance, morale and camaraderie.
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Naming the national award-winning B-Line Trail; designing its logo, 16-ton blue diamond bridge and amenities; and conceptualizing and naming Plaza OneA as a free speech zone.
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Spearheading the City’s award-winning Be Active Bloomington wellness campaign, which delivered strategy, funding, tools and visibility to the value placed on organizational and community-wide health and wellness initiatives.
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Serving on the Governing Board of ACHIEVE, a nationwide campaign designed to make the healthy choice the easy choice throughout the community.
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Conceptualizing the quality of life website, Everybody’s Bloomington, which highlighted City government successes and community amenities and opportunities to help strengthen economic development and tourism.
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Creating a community leader campaign, which made animal care a community responsibility and increased local animal shelter adoptions by 35%.
After 9 years in City government I embraced the knowledge I’d gained in terms of leadership, communications, strategy and the importance of doing meaningful work and focused my attention on helping individuals thrive.
I embraced mindfulness and became a certified coach and teacher, helping hundreds of individuals identify, prepare for, land and excel in work they love. I also taught 21 courses at Indiana University, teaching what I know best: PR for Nonprofits and Career Success Preparation for The Media School and Citizenship & Careers for The Political & Civic Engagement Program.
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Mindful Transformation Coach & Strategist
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Owner, Planet Reimagine LLC
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Dream Job Coach, Reimagine Monday
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Founder, The Love Monday Method
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Founder, Embark
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Creator, Career Success Preparation, Indiana University
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M.A., M.A. | Indiana University
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Certificate in Executive Leadership | Cornell University
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Certified Life Coach & Six-Phase Meditation Trainer | Mindvalley
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Certified Core Coach & Certified Career Transitions Coach | Coach Training Alliance
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Certified Career Transformation Coach | The Institute for Career Coaching
TOGETHER, LET'S NOT JUST NAVIGATE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES – LET'S REIMAGINE THEM.
ELEVATE YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE WITH A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT INSPIRES, LEADERSHIP THAT EXCELS AND A WORKFORCE THAT FLOURISHES.
THE JOURNEY TO A TRANSCENDENT TOMORROW STARTS WITH YOU, TODAY.
I LOVE CONNECTING WITH YOU!
Here's how to get in touch.
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