October 31, 2021
Episode 35

Coaching Change in Schools

Featuring: Tim Lewis, Consultant, Founder, Coach

Featured Guests

  • Tim Lewis

    Consultant, Founder, Coach

    Dr. Tim Lewis is a consultant, speaker, life-long learner, and founder of TLL Advisory Services. He is an expert in strategy and business development, strategic partnerships, diversity and inclusion, and coaching to achieve organizational success. He has been a college basketball coach, division-one athlete, NCAA administrator, and health care administrator.

Despite our best intentions, collaboration in schools often looks more like cooperation (at best), or polite dysfunction (at worst). As an NCAA div 1 basketball coach and strategic business development professional, Tim Lewis has learned a lot that can help us build the schools we’ve always dreamed of, together. On the episode we discuss teaching like a coach, unleashing teams with collective accountability, and taking the imperfect first step to make your mission statement a reality.

Show Notes:

  • 6:45Tim’s journey from basketball player, to coach, to strategy and business development with a focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
  • 10:00Unpacking what teachers can learn from a NCAA division 1 basketball coach.
  • 12:45Defining what truly makes a team.
  • 19:30Organizational change advice for schools.
  • 23:30The fear of change in college athletics, despite a desperate need for more inclusive practices.
  • 28:00Becoming accountable to your mission and vision statements.
  • 30:30When to step outside of a system or institution to change it.
  • 34:50How schools might cultivate the innovators we need in every industry.
  • 43:50The purpose of education.

Significant Quotes:

“And I think the term team is thrown out way too loosely, and what they think may be a team they are truly lacking what makes a team.”

Tim Lewis
12:45

“Humans get so accustomed to complacency, even though they don’t know that they are. Any little idea that can rock the boat, people go into a risk-management mindset.”

Tim Lewis
20:15

“Sometimes you need to move forward with something that is 75% good and figure out the other 25% along the way.”

Tim Lewis
20:25

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