Support for the people living through the transition.

Workshops and coaching that help organizations protect people and performance during disruptive transitions.

Participants at a leadership workshop for people leaders and their teams

Two ways to support leaders and teams through transition

Whether you’re navigating organizational change, leadership turnover, restructuring, rapid growth, or workforce disruption, Jonlieu provides practical support at the team, leader, and organizational level.

Each service stands on its own. Together they give leaders and teams a path from learning to applying. Workshops build shared skills. Coaching helps individual leaders apply them to the transition they are in.

Leading Through Change Without Losing Performance

Transitions place extraordinary pressure on leaders and teams.

This six-part workshop series helps participants build the skills needed to remain effective when uncertainty is high, priorities are shifting, and people are looking for direction. Each workshop is grounded in the Think-Be-Do Coaching Model™.

Organizations choose this series to:

  • reduce change fatigue
  • strengthen trust
  • support people leaders
  • sustain engagement
  • protect performance
  • build resilience for future transitions

Stay Composed When Pressure and Uncertainty Are Rising

Emotional intelligence during transitions. Participants recognize their triggers and stress patterns, stay composed, and respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.

Build Resilience Before Change Becomes Change Fatigue

Participants assess their resilience strengths and vulnerabilities, learn what fuels or depletes resilience, and put resilience-building practices to work so a long transition does not wear people down.

Protect Energy, Focus, and Performance During Prolonged Change

Participants learn the drivers of sustainable performance, recognize the patterns that lead to stress and burnout, and plan how to protect their well-being while sustaining results.

Reignite Engagement When Teams Are Stretched Thin

Participants identify their key strengths, explore what drives their motivation, see how strengths and motivation fuel engagement, and find ways to use both more intentionally to increase contribution.

Build Trust When People Need It Most

Participants assess the state of trust on their team, practice communication that builds trust and psychological safety, and create a plan to strengthen collaboration.

Create Purpose, Commitment, and Momentum Through Transition

Participants connect personal values, their work, and organizational goals, identify sources of meaning in their current role, and create a purpose-centered plan that supports commitment and momentum.

Workshops are delivered to groups of up to 36, virtually or on-site by arrangement.

What participants take with them

  • A brief assessment before the first workshop and again after the last, measuring resilience, engagement, and well-being
  • A personal playbook they build across the series, with insights, reflection exercises, commitments, and practices
  • A practical toolkit, including tools for emotional agility, resilience, energy, strengths, trust, and purpose
  • One simple workplace challenge after each workshop
  • Manager conversation guides that bring each workshop into team conversations

Coaching for the leaders under the greatest pressure

People leaders often become the emotional and operational center of a transition.

Coaching provides a confidential space to strengthen resilience, maintain perspective, navigate complexity, and lead effectively under pressure.

Coaching is available to individual leaders, or sponsored by the organization. It follows the Think-Be-Do Coaching Model™ and Jonlieu’s 5 C’s coaching process: Connect, Chart, Create, Commit, Celebrate.

A people leader on a video call during a virtual one-to-one coaching session

Assessments

Leaders start by seeing where their resilience, engagement, and well-being stand today.

Personalized coaching

One-to-one conversations with an ICF-credentialed coach, focused on the transition the leader is living through.

Action planning

Insights become specific next steps that fit the leader’s role, team, and week.

Accountability

Regular check-ins keep progress moving when the day-to-day pulls attention elsewhere.

Speaking on the human side of transition

Michelle speaks on helping leaders and teams remain resilient, engaged, and effective when everything around them is changing.

Options include a speaking engagement, a conference breakout or half-day workshop, and a custom organizational presentation.

Start with a conversation

We talk through the transition you’re in, who is most affected, and what your leaders and teams need. Then we recommend the learning experiences that fit. Engagements are delivered virtually to partners nationwide, and on-site by arrangement for a travel fee.

Questions leaders ask before they reach out

What is Jonlieu?

Jonlieu is a coaching, facilitation, and education practice founded by Dr. Michelle Watson-Grant. It helps people leaders and their teams protect people and performance through disruptive transitions by strengthening resilience, engagement, and well-being. Jonlieu serves partners across the United States.

Who is this for?

Organizational leaders and executive sponsors in K-12, nonprofits, and other small to mid-sized organizations, along with the people leaders and teams they support.

What kinds of transitions do you support?

Restructures, reorganizations, leadership transitions, funding changes, rapid growth, mergers, technology shifts, and workforce disruption.

How is this different from our EAP?

It works alongside it. EAPs often support individuals in moments of difficulty. Jonlieu works earlier, helping leaders and teams strengthen resilience, engagement, and well-being so difficulty is less likely to become burnout, disengagement, or lost performance.

How do you measure progress?

We measure resilience, engagement, and well-being with a short assessment before the work begins and again afterward. Results are reported as associations, never as proof of cause.

Do you work virtually or in person?

Both. Engagements are virtual by default, and on-site by arrangement for a travel fee.

How large can a workshop group be?

Up to 36 people per workshop. Need more than 36 people, or several groups? Let’s talk about the options for larger groups, and see group pricing on the Pricing page.

Can we combine workshops and coaching?

Yes. They are built to work together, and we will recommend the support that fits your transition.

Let’s find the right fit for the transition you’re in