Academic leadership, career, and writing coaching and consulting for faculty who want to hit their goals faster

Quiet your inner critic, publish more, and become the calmest academic you know — even if you barely have time to breathe

ACADEMIC COACHING

How will faculty coaching help me in my academic career?

Hit your writing and career goals without burning out and enjoy your life again

Get more publications into the world — and be proud of your work

Feel consistently validated and motivated thanks to expert support

Hone your leadership skills so you can get that promotion or new position

Make calm and confident your default writing state, even with little time

Enjoy your life and job more because you finally have balance and peace of mind

Every day you wake up and tell yourself you’re going to write…

And almost every day something gets in the way — and the writing doesn’t get done. It doesn’t make sense does it? How something so important always seems to be deprioritised. 

But the kids need to be driven to school, there’s an urgent email from a student who needs your support, and the committee you’re on calls a meeting - so you give up your writing time. 

You’re so busy making sure you don’t let others down that you let yourself down over and over.

Or maybe you do find the time to write, but your career feels like it’s plateaued…

Your drafts are perpetually “almost done” and the milestones you haven’t reached yet weigh heavy on your mind — along with the 2184 other things that occupy space in it.

You want to progress further and faster in your career and would love support in figuring out “what’s next” and how to go get it.

You’ve already accomplished so much in your academic career. And yet your inner critic seems to be louder than ever. 

While it’s busy telling you that your achievements still aren't good enough, you watch your peers get published again and again, advance their careers, and become widely recognised for their ideas.

You deserve this too. And you can have it when you embrace the fact that you’re allowed to be supported.

That’s where I come in.

I’m Erin McCarthy PhD, award-winning Philosophy Professor of 23 years and Leadership & Writing Coach for academics

Thanks to my unique combination of 30+ years of mindfulness practice, my training and experience as a Philosophy Professor, and over a decade coaching faculty, I can help you discover how to become the calmest, most confident and most capable version of yourself.

I know the challenges academics face, especially women and people socialised as women, or other folks who’ve found themselves on the margins. I also have the writing and evidence-based mindfulness tools to help you overcome those challenges and bring calm clarity and peaceful focus to your everyday. That’s why I created my academic coaching programs.

“Erin has cheered me on for nearly a decade, through professional challenges and achievements like tenure and promotion and also through personal transitions. Her expertise in mindfulness has been an added bonus to her skill in offering specific strategies to move my research and writing forward while also understanding that there is life outside the academy.”

- CORRINE

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Academic Coaching Programs

The Calm & Confident Academic

Discover a private coaching experience to help faculty advance their career in the calmest way possible and without sacrificing anything

Mindful Writing for Academic Success

A small group coaching & accountability membership to help faculty hit their writing goals as their calmest, most confident and most capable self