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Presidential Briefing
Welcome to the "Presidential Briefing," the Presidential Consultants blog page where we share concise versions of our content, providing actionable tools, resources, and insights. At Presidential Consultants, our mission is to empower you with the knowledge not only to enhance your workplace, foster improved teamwork, and ensure quality service but also to support your growth as the leader driving thriving workplaces.
Dive into a curated collection of content designed to equip teams and leaders with the skills they need to thrive collectively and build a more productive and harmonious work environment.
When the Need Keeps Growing but the Team Cannot: Leading Human Services Through the Capacity Squeeze
By Anthony President There is a sentence I hear in helping organizations that sounds responsible, compassionate, and completely reasonable: “The need is too great for us to say no.” I understand it. If you work in behavioral health, substance use prevention and treatment, child welfare, education, healthcare, housing, community action, or another human-service field, saying no can feel fundamentally at odds with the mission. There is always another family who needs support, a
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Sep 246 min read
After the Reset: How Behavioral Health Teams Sustain Momentum When the Pressure Returns
Most organizations know how to reset. The harder question is whether they know how to keep going differently after the reset is over. A leadership retreat creates renewed energy. A difficult quarter leads to a team meeting where priorities are clarified. Supervisors recommit to protecting staff time. A new workflow is introduced after employees identify what has not been working. Leaders acknowledge that people have been carrying too much and promise to communicate more clear
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Sep 249 min read
Featured Course: Coaching for Success: Empowering Staff to Excel
A staff member walks into a supervisor’s office with a problem. The instinct is almost automatic: listen, figure out what needs to happen, and give them the answer. It feels helpful. It feels efficient. And in the moment, it probably is. But when supervisors become the person everyone depends on for the next answer, they can unintentionally create something they never intended: a team that gets very good at bringing problems to the supervisor instead of developing the confide
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Sep 243 min read
Facilitator Spotlight: Jake Ross, MSW, LISW-S
“Helping people turn meaningful work into stories others can understand and remember.” Jake Ross brings the perspective of someone who has worked at nearly every level of human services—from direct clinical practice with youth and families to leading programs, organizations, and large-scale clinical operations. A Senior Consultant & Trainer with Presidential Consultants, Jake has spent more than 15 years helping organizations strengthen the way they support people navigating
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Sep 242 min read
Embrace Transformation with the "Magic Question"
Questions possess the remarkable ability to shape our perspectives and fuel personal growth. “Magic Questions” are prompts that push us to explore our imagination, confront beliefs, and spark transformative insights. When we’re bold enough to take on “Magic Questions,” they serve as a catalyst for change and progress—guiding us toward more intentional leadership and meaningful impact. Today’s "Magic Question" is: “What are we asking people to sustain that our systems are not
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Sep 241 min read
The Workaround Economy: What Employees Invent When the Official Way Stops Working
By Anthony President There is probably a spreadsheet somewhere in your organization that technically should not exist. Someone created it three years ago because the official system did not give them what they needed. Now six people use it. One person knows all the formulas. Another person keeps a backup copy “just in case.” New employees learn about it sometime during their first month, usually when a coworker says, “Don't use that report. I'll show you how we actually do it
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Aug 277 min read
The Job Didn't Change. They Did.
By CeCe President I've spent the last two decades helping leaders build stronger teams and healthier workplaces, especially in organizations that serve the community, but that expertise came with time. Before my master's degree in public administration, before leading community development in the District of Columbia, before growing workforce programs for one of the country's largest Chambers of Commerce, my first job out of college told a very different story. I was supervi
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Aug 275 min read
The power of enthusiasm with renowned international best-selling author and Mindset Mentor, Jason Goldberg.
Enthusiasm can feel like something we either wake up with or we don’t. But what if enthusiasm is not something we have to wait for? What if it is something we can intentionally create? In Part 3 of the How to Make Each Day G.R.E.A.T. series, international bestselling author, Mindset Mentor, and Self-Leadership Coach Jason Goldberg explores the “E” in the G.R.E.A.T. wellness model: Enthusiasm. Drawing from his own journey and his work coaching leaders, changemakers, and high p
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Aug 271 min read
Featured Course: From Buddy to Boss - Navigating the Shift to Leadership
Every promotion from within creates a relationship that has never existed before. The person who used to sit next to you at lunch is now the person you have to hold accountable. Nobody walks into that shift already knowing how to lead people who still remember you as one of them, and that first awkward moment, whether it's a former peer testing the new dynamic or a boundary that goes unspoken, can quietly shape how the whole team sees your leadership from then on. Why This Co
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Aug 272 min read
Facilitator Spotlight: Anthony President
"Give people the tools, the trust, and the space to do it differently, and real change follows on its own." Anthony President is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Training Officer of Presidential Consultants, and the driving force behind a movement to help professionals lead with more clarity, connection, and confidence. A Master Trainer, international speaker, and author of Invincible Social Worker, Anthony has empowered more than 100,000 people to perform, produce, and partner be
Presidential Consultants
Aug 272 min read
Embrace Transformation with the "Magic Question"
Questions possess the remarkable ability to shape our perspectives and fuel personal growth. “Magic Questions” are prompts that push us to explore our imagination, confront beliefs, and spark transformative insights. When we’re bold enough to take on “Magic Questions,” they serve as a catalyst for change and progress—guiding us toward more intentional leadership and meaningful impact. Today’s "Magic Question" is: "Who around me is doing something for the first time while I as
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Aug 271 min read
What Your PD Calendar Says Before You Say a Word
By: Anthony President Every August, I watch school leaders build their professional development calendar the same way: line by line, session by session, working backward from whatever the state or the district or the new curriculum requires. It is careful work. It has to be. There are compliance hours to log, new standards to introduce, safety protocols to refresh. By the time the calendar is full, it usually looks complete. I sat with a director of curriculum a few weeks ago
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Jul 305 min read
The Power of Predictability: Anchoring Your School Staff in the First 30 Days
By: DJ Nicholson The energy of the launch of a new school year is unmatched. Hallways are shiny, classrooms are getting their new look, and the anticipation of a new school year brings a unique blend of excitement and a bit of anxiety. For school leaders, the pressure to get everything right on day one can feel overwhelming. We look at our strategic plans, our professional development agendas, and our student data, feeling the urge to sprint out of the gate. But culture isn't
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Jul 304 min read
Featured Course: What's Your Style?
Building the Relationships Your School Runs On Every school year brings new relationships that have never had to work together before: a new hire and the veteran teacher next door, a first-year assistant principal and a staff that has seen three of them come and go, two grade-level teams merging into one. Nobody walks into any relationship, new or existing, already knowing how the other person is wired to communicate, and the first real misunderstanding can quietly set the to
Presidential Consultants
Jul 303 min read
Embrace Transformation with the "Magic Question"
Questions possess the remarkable ability to shape our perspectives and fuel personal growth. “Magic Questions” are prompts that push us to explore our imagination, confront beliefs, and spark transformative insights. When we’re bold enough to take on “Magic Questions,” they serve as a catalyst for change and progress—guiding us toward more intentional leadership and meaningful impact. Today’s "Magic Question" is: “What am I permitting to go unspoken because naming it would sl
Presidential Consultants
Jul 301 min read
Mailbag Moment: What to Do to Jump Start Wellness in Your Building
A wellness push usually stalls the same way every time: in conversation, before anyone actually does anything. This short video walks through the four moves that turn talk into a real staff wellness campaign, right when your team could use one most. Watch now:
Presidential Consultants
Jul 301 min read
What Stays Behind When They Leave
By Anthony President I first met Meg while I was training at Scioto County Children's Services. She was the kind of professional you notice immediately. She moved through the work with a quiet authority that came from knowing the landscape completely. She knew the name of every school counselor in the county, which ones returned calls and which ones needed a visit in person before they would trust you enough to partner. She knew the coalition chair who had been doing this wo
Presidential Consultants
Jun 185 min read
What Makes Staff Stay Through Hard Seasons
By Scott Gagnon The June Moment The summer months bring heavy challenges for professionals in behavioral health. June marks the end of a long, uninterrupted service cycle. It includes an intense post-winter surge, end-of-fiscal-year pressures, and the emotional peaks that coincide with the close of the school year. Throughout this stretch, our behavioral health professionals have been navigating continuous exposure to trauma narratives and high empathy demands. And for those
Presidential Consultants
Jun 185 min read
Featured Course: Why They Don’t Come Back
Breaking Barriers to Continued Care | Leadership and Champion Series Every day, someone takes a courageous step and reaches out for help. They show up. They engage. And then, quietly, they stop coming back. Not because they stopped needing care. But because somewhere in the experience, something told them they did not belong. This is one of the most persistent and least examined challenges in behavioral health. Disengagement is rarely about motivation. It is almost always abo
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Jun 183 min read
Facilitator Spotlight: Scott M. Gagnon, MPP, PC-S
“Supporting our people isn’t a thing we check off a box. This is who we are as an organization.” Scott Gagnon has spent his career asking a question that sounds simple but rarely is: what does it actually take to build systems where people can do their best work over the long term? As a Senior Facilitator with Presidential Consultants, he brings that question into every engagement, and he has the experience to help organizations answer it honestly. What makes Scott especially
Presidential Consultants
Jun 182 min read
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