Leadership Development
We educate, equip and empower leaders and staff to better understand and support the individuals and families they serve. We work with faith-based, community-based, and school-based leaders to facilitate growth, understanding, and competency in supportively engaging others, specifically youth and their families. Our areas of focused growth potential include increased awareness and knowledge in mental health including the intersection of human development and family systems. We are also able to strengthen intercultural engagement through the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Through tailored assessment, planning, training, and coaching, we build sustainable positive change in your team leading to competent and compassionate excellence in leadership, service and care.
our expertise
Dr. Hubbard is poised to facilitate leader development in a unique and comprehensive way. She has worked extensively in the fields of mental health, substance use, and domestic violence treatment, developmental disabilities intervention, youth and family research and support, human development and family sciences instruction, counseling education, and policy development and advocacy. As a children’s mental health, child and adolescent development, and family systems expert, Dr. Hubbard has honed specific proficiency in educating, equipping, and empowering teams who support children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. Dr. Hubbard is also an IDI Qualified Administrator. This qualification equips her to help others, like herself, to foster growth along the intercultural development trajectory. As an innovator of new solutions and a builder of positive outcomes within numerous systems and teams, Dr. Hubbard holds the capacity to create sustainable growth in the next generation of leaders changing the way we approach mental health in the future.
our process
Leaders and teams determine the course and impact of your work – day to day, month to month, year to year. With focused assessment and intentional guidance and training, Direct Steps can educate, equip, and empower your team with the tools and capacity to impact those you work with far beyond your time with them.
Direct Steps for Leaders and Teams
Step 1: Assessment
Discuss team needs and desired growth areas with primary team leaders and assess
the team’s current awareness. Areas of assessment include mental health, human development,
family systems, and intercultural development.
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Identify knowledge and acceptance levels
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Assess confidence
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Inform team’s development plan
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Step 2: Development Plan
Based on initial leadership consultation and assessment outcomes,
create a tailored development plan for the team.
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Inform the training plan
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Recommend specific self-paced activities
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Provide opportunities for collective growth
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Step 3: Training Plan
From the development plan, build a customized training plan for the team.
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Determine areas of focused training
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Coordinate training schedule
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Identify expected outcomes
Step 4: Implement Training
Complete all training with the team.
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Create dialectical learning environment
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Complete within clear timeframe
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Provide opportunities for feedback and flexibility to maximize learning
Step 5: Coaching and/or Deeper Training
Provide additional coaching hours and/or deeper training as identified by primary leadership and feedback from the team.
our clients
Below are examples of individuals, just like you, who reached out and said we need something more.
Our pastors keep encountering situations with youth that we do not know how to handle. Can you help us be better prepared to know how to best support youth, particularly adolescents?
Our coaches don’t always see the emotional and mental side of the kids. They are focused on the sport and team development. Can you help us raise awareness around youth mental health and how cultural backgrounds influence youth and team dynamics?
Our staff have been asking for support to know what to say and how to help when someone in our office is struggling. We lost a team member to suicide after a long struggle with addiction. Can you help us understand mental health, especially substance use and suicide? Can you help us figure out how to be a safe and trauma-informed workplace?
I am a senior pastor, and parents often come to me or my staff for support with their children’s behavior. Our staff have a general understanding of good parenting skills and general youth development. Could you help us understand child and adolescent development more thoroughly, how to spot youth mental health challenges, and how to locate local mental health resources for referral?
our value and costs
Example 1: Church seeks mental health, human development, and family systems training for 10 staff to better support the youth and parents in their church.
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Step 1: Assessment and Results Summary​
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Initial primary leadership consultation meeting
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Assessment scoring and results summary
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Step 2: Customized Development Plan
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Customized with development recommendations beyond training
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Based on initial consultation meeting and results summary
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Step 3: Tailored Training Plan
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Topics based on custom development plan
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Flexibility within plan to meet growth and development needs
Step 4: Specialized Training Implementation​
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12 hours total training
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Hours and schedule determined by primary leadership and Direct Steps
Complete Package:
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Team assessment and results summary, customized development plan, tailored
training plan, and 12 hours of specialized training​
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Total Cost:
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$4250 or $35 per staff member per training hour*
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Example 2: School seeks mental health and youth development training for 25 coaches and would also like to assess for intercultural development on an individual level.
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Step 1: Assessment and Results Summary​
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Initial primary leadership consultation meeting
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Assessment scoring and results summary
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Step 2: Customized Development Plan
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Customized with development recommendations beyond training
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Based on initial consultation meeting and results summary
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Step 3: Tailored Training Plan
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Topics based on custom development plan
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Flexibility within plan to meet growth and development needs
Step 4: Specialized Training Implementation​
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10 hours training on mental health and youth development
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4 hours training on intercultural development plus 25 one-hour individual sessions
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Hours and schedule determined by primary leadership and Direct Steps
Complete Package:
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Team assessment and results summary, customized development plan, tailored training plan, 10 hours mental health and youth development training, 4 hours intercultural development training, and 25 one-hour sessions for IDI individual results and development plan​
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Total Cost:
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$10,595 or $28 per coach per training hour*
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