Rediscover your strengths, restore your relationships, and rebuild your team.
A Few Clients I’ve Worked With:
“Elite high-performing teams in all industries get stretched and stressed by the demand to perform.”
When Teams Get Stretched & Stressed
In the landscape of team dynamics, subtle yet profound indicators emerge when groups begin to feel stretched and stressed:
Results overshadow relationships: Amidst the pressure to deliver, the essence of collaboration fades into the background, eclipsed by the pursuit of outcomes.
Collaborating with team members turns to competing against them: What once was a symphony of shared goals now resonates with notes of individual agendas clashing against one another.
The culture shifts from team-first to me-first: The harmonious rhythm of collective effort gives way to self-interest; the chorus of "we" diminishes into the solo of "me."
Individuals stop supporting the goals and start sabotaging the mission: The noble pursuit of shared objectives fractures into a battlefield of conflicting intentions, where allegiance to the mission erodes beneath the weight of personal agendas.
Do you notice your team reflected in these patterns? If so, it's a signal that your team is falling short of its true potential.
Being stretched and stressed is exhausting!
However, it doesn’t have to be this way.
I Am Here to Help
Collaborating With Schools:
Transform your school's educational landscape with customized in-service and professional development days guided by a seasoned experiential facilitator. Elevate educator growth, stimulate collaborative teamwork, and generate enduring positive effects on student achievement with timely content and well-established facilitation methods. Click to learn more.
Collaborating With Athletic Teams:
Coaching is rooted in a desire to create and sustain high-performing teams. I’ve developed successful programs focusing on skills that are universally applicable and consistent across all sports. I'm available for in-person, online, or hybrid programs for one-time events, ongoing commitments, and season-long retainers. I've collaborated with clients across various divisions and conferences, including the SEC, Big Ten, and ACC.
With my experience as a former college coach, I understand the life demands, pressure, and needs of a coaching staff. I'd be honored to collaborate with you and your team next! Click to learn more.
Collaborating With Corporations:
My work with corporations and organizations often centers on their desire to be a high-performing team. As a former college coach and educator, I am able to lean on my knowledge of what creates and sustains a high-performing team. This knowledge is valuable for teams in all industries. My belief is that team development is critical, but in doing this work, we often notice how leadership development, conflict resolution, organizational culture, and personal growth impact the success of the team and need to be addressed. Click to learn more.
Collaborating One-On-One:
While I primarily work with teams, I am deeply aware that high-performing teams are comprised of healthy individuals and healthy leaders. I love working one-on-one with people who are passionate about their personal and professional growth. Click to learn more.
My Masterminds:
Throughout the year, I run several Masterminds. A Mastermind is a group of people with similar interests who meet on a regular basis to offer a combination of brainstorming, education, peer accountability, and support in a group. A Mastermind helps you and your cohort achieve success. A Mastermind can be the support system you need to perform at the highest level, both personally and professionally! I currently run The Mastermind for College Coaches & The Mastermind for Former College Coaches. In the next year, I anticipate offering a new Mastermind for entrepreneurs and one for leaders in all industries.
Online Courses:
COACH READY: If you are the coach of a youth, high school, or college team, then you know the pressure to win has never been higher, you are facing exhaustion, and something has to change. In COACH READY – a self-guided, online course – I teach you the content I use to develop high-performing people and high-performing teams! By using my content, you will be equipped with the X's and O's to develop your players into high-performing people. Click to learn more.
TEAM READY: If you are the coach of a college team, then you know your work has never been more difficult! The transfer portal, NIL, and a shift from an Athletic Department to a Business Office have made coaching very difficult.
TEAM READY – an online course and interactive live Zoom session – helps your incoming players adjust to college life while stabilizing your returning roster by talking about the pain points that prevent a team from moving forward! In this hybrid process, we address the five biggest pain points in college athletics. Click to learn more. Click
“Healthy teams experience collaboration and creativity, enjoy open communication and problem-solving, celebrate other’s success, navigate team conflict, and embrace relationships.”
I’m Molly Grisham
I help build and sustain teams.
May, 2016. I sat in my office at the end of another long day and I could sense that my life was about to change.
After 18 years, as a teacher and coach at the college level, I realized I was more interested in developing my players as people rather than manufacturing a particular outcome.
But the system tells you to focus on the outcomes, not the people in the process. Results become more important than relationships.
Does this sound familiar?
It’s a system that turns the joy of the job into simply surviving another season. Stress leads to distrust, and any failure results in a culture of self-protection. I had the recurring thought, “It doesn’t have to be this way.”
For years, I had studied leadership. It became my passion, both personally and professionally. I read books. I wrote leadership curriculum. I turned my teams into leadership labs. And here’s what I learned:
The success of your team – whether it’s academic, athletic, or corporate – depends on the strengths and relationships of the team members, and the leader – YOU – directly influence that process.
So, I left my role within a broken system and dedicated myself to helping others thrive within that system. What did I discover?
I was capable of becoming a healthier leader, developing other healthy leaders, and influencing high-performing teams. The other lesson?
Leadership isn’t simply a skill that I could learn. I realized I was energized by helping others learn to become better leaders while developing high-performing teams.
I now work with teams in athletics, academics, and the corporate sector.
I provide team-building experiences, leadership development, conflict resolution, and team culture workshops, as well as tools for personal growth. My work is centered around experiencing lightbulb moments (ah-ha moments).
I don’t simply speak to a group, lead team-building exercises, or facilitate corporate workshops; I provide a transformational experience for participants.
My work can be done IN PERSON (face-to-face) or ONLINE (through remote platforms).
I’d love to talk with you about working together because it doesn’t have to be this way …
Free Video Resources:
Leadership is Influence:
I believe that "a leader is a person of influence who uses their influence for good." Too often, leadership is talked about from a title, ego-driven perspective, but I believe that leaders must always be thinking about how they can use their influence for good. In this video, I share my thoughts on the idea that leadership is influence.
Leaders, Take Care of Yourselves:
Before you can take care of others, you must also take care of yourself. This can be a challenge for leaders who are often pulled in many directions. In this video, I share my thoughts on the value of leaders who take the time to invest in themselves so they can better lead others.
Leadership & Redwoods:
There are many mental pictures that help us understand what healthy leadership looks like and the Redwood trees are a great example. Like the Redwoods, leaders need to be intentional about who they plant themselves next to and how their roots connect with others. In this video, I share my thoughts on what leaders can learn from the Redwoods.
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