Leadership & Teams

We support leaders and leadership teams to lead change with
clarity, coherence, and care.

Executive &
Systems Leaders coaching

We coach senior leaders navigating complex change, high-stakes decisions, and system-level challenges. Our work helps leaders clarify priorities, strengthen decision-making, and lead with greater coherence across people, strategy, and systems.

Superintendent and cabinet coaching
Executive thought partnership
Support during moments of transition or growth

School & Instructional Leadership Coaching

We support school and instructional leaders to strengthen practice, lead improvement, and translate vision into day-to-day action.

Our coaching is grounded in real instructional challenges and the systems that shape them.

Instructional leadership coaching
Support for principals and central office leaders
Integration with broader strategy or systems work

Leadership Team building & effectiveness

We help leadership teams move from alignment to effectiveness. Our work focuses on strengthening trust, clarifying roles and decision-making, and building the habits and systems teams need to lead together.

Team retreats and working sessions
Clarifying roles, priorities, and decision-making
Tools and protocols to support collaboration

Carolyn Gramstorff changed my trajectory as a teacher. She saw my strengths and knew where it was possible for me to go. She anchored my wisdom in the ongoing development of the school where we worked together and nurtured my development into a teacher leader.

I have witnessed her expertise in developing systems, using data to inform change, challenge established norms, and advocate for schools that center the whole child and the whole teacher.

Carolyn understands at an atomic level how to design and build schools that are equitable, high quality and designed for students to excel academically, creatively, and emotionally. And she does this with a joyful heart!”

Mariah Rankine-Landers

Co-Founder, Studio Pathways LLC

Author, Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? Creative Education for Social Change

sample Engagement
unbounded - pivot - core learning merger

s3dx supported the merger of three education nonprofits into a single, unified organization.

Through a series of custom-designed retreats and ongoing facilitation, we helped the executive team align around a shared vision, clarify leadership roles and decision-making, and build the foundations for effective collaboration as a new organization.

This work supported the team to move from formation to performance during a critical moment of organizational change.