Executive Functioning & Academic - Life Coaching

Skills for school. Skills for life.

Our Approach Our pulse process

Discover Your Learning Code with PULSE™

At Champion, our trademarked PULSE™ process helps students uncover their personal strengths, understand how they learn, and develop a personalized plan for their learning journey.

  • Does school stress you out?
  • Do you feel like you spend most of your time outside of school hours studying?
  • Do you struggle with time management and organization?
  • Are you a master procrastinator?
  • Do you want to raise your grades?

PULSE™ helps students understand their unique learning attributes and identify strategies that work for them. Through this personalized approach, students can develop better study habits, improve time management and organization, manage stress, and become more confident and independent learners.

Dr. Vicki Rogers created PULSE™ by drawing on over 20 years of teaching experience, her interactions with thousands of students, and her own education and research to develop a system designed to transform students’ academic and life experiences.

The Champion Coach Approach: Identify (coach-led), Model, Empower (building independence), Champion Out (self-directed)

With Champion Support, Students Will Learn to

  • Optimise their study time more efficiently so they feel confident and take greater control of their lives.
  • Get organized so they can focus on learning.
  • Develop strategies to understand and retain what they are taught.
  • Take better notes that make key points easier to remember.
  • Make their study time more efficient and compelling so they feel confident for every test.
  • Learn skills to stay motivated and manage pressure without losing momentum.
  • Create a personalized study system that supports their goals.

Champion Coach Approach

At Champion, coaching is a structured, personalized process that helps students understand their strengths, develop essential skills, and feel more confident in their learning journey.

We conduct holistic assessments, support intervention, and provide direction based on each student’s needs. We help students learn skills, develop agency, and reframe their approach to learning.

Through practice, flexible skills, and effective habits, students build independence, optimize their learning, and become self directed as they unleash their Champion skills and embark on their own journey.

A Champion coach guiding a student through their learning journey

Champion Support for Young Adults

We also support young adults as they transition from education into the professional world.

At Champion, we use PULSE™ to help young adults identify their strengths, interests, and talents, and align their goals with a meaningful sense of purpose. Understanding their unique attributes helps them approach career decisions, the job search, and their first professional role with greater confidence.

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A young adult preparing for their first professional role
  1. Are you nervous about transitioning from a learning environment into the professional working world?
  2. Are you overwhelmed by the idea of going out and looking for your first job?
  3. Do you know what your strengths are, and how to maximize them in both your job search and once in your first job after school?

Is Coaching Right for Me?

A student working with a Champion coach

For Students

  • Do you feel lost in the complexity of the education system?
  • Are you anxious about your grades, burnt out, or feeling stressed?
  • Do you struggle with time management and organization?
  • Are you developing the core knowledge and critical skills you need to progress confidently from one academic year to the next?
  • Do you know what kind of learner you are and which strategies work best for you?
  • Do you feel like you are constantly playing catch-up and struggling to keep pace with school?
  • Would you like to work smarter, not harder, and have more time to explore interests beyond school?
  • Do you know what your unique strengths and talents are?

What is Academic Coaching?

At Champion, Academic Coaching begins with a customized, comprehensive PULSE™ evaluation. This helps us understand each student’s individual learning profile and develop a personalized approach to their academic journey. Through the PULSE™ portfolio, we track student habits, assignment progress, and academic results. We also help students build essential skills in time management and organization so they can complete their work before deadlines, manage their workload with less stress, and learn to advocate for themselves.

What is Life Coaching?

Champion’s Life Coaching services also use PULSE™ to explore each student’s strengths, interests, and talents. By understanding the attributes that make each student unique, we help them align their goals with a meaningful sense of purpose and take the first steps towards a fulfilling life-long learning journey.

Think it. Plan it. Do it. Review it.

Building skills to optimize school and life

Executive Functioning & Life Skills

Are you preparing to leave home and begin your journey towards independent living? Are you concerned about managing new responsibilities, handling your finances, creating a budget, or communicating effectively? Do you have a reliable system for managing your time, staying organized, and balancing the demands of work and daily life?

Champion’s executive functioning and life skills coaching helps students develop and strengthen these essential skills, enabling them to navigate school more effectively and prepare for a confident transition into independent living.

Executive Functioning Skills

  • Stress management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Time management
  • Organization skills
  • Working memory
  • Inhibition control
  • Emotional control
  • Self-monitoring

Professional Skills

  • Interviewing
  • Negotiation
  • Presentation techniques
  • Effective communication skills
  • Navigating difficult conversations

Personal Finance

  • Creating and managing a budget.
  • Understanding expenses and paying bills, including rent.
  • Creating a savings and investment plan.
  • Investing 101 and the power of compound interest.
  • Understanding bank accounts and personal credit.
  • Knowing when and how to use credit cards, cash, and debit cards.
Take Control of Your Learning

Study Skills & Test-Taking Strategies

Study Skills

Effective Study skills are critical to academic success. Champion teaches students strategies that help them become independent, successful, and confident learners across their classes. The goal is not simply to spend more time studying. It is to understand how to study effectively, retrieve information, Optimise time management and approach assessments with confidence.

  • 10 Habits of Highly Effective Students
  • A Guide for Studying Math
  • Discover Your Learning Style
  • Improving Reading Comprehension
  • Improving Your Memory
  • Improving Your Note Taking
  • Strategies for Reading Textbooks
  • Strategies for Solving Math Word Problems
  • Strategies for Reading
  • Using Study Groups
  • Optimising Time Management to Improve Study Skills
  • Essay Writing Skills

Test-Taking Strategies

Champion helps students prepare for assessments with strategies that build confidence, improve test performance, and help them approach different types of questions more effectively.

  • Test Taking
  • Essay Test Taking
  • Multiple Choice Test
  • True/False Test Taking
  • Openbook Text Preparation
  • Quantitative/Math Preparation
  • Short Answer Test Preparation
  • Improving Test Performance
  • Coping With Test Anxiety
  • SSAT Test Taking
  • ACT Test Taking
  • SAT Test Taking
Traditional School vs. Coaching Support

How Academic Life Coaching Helps Address Challenges of Traditional School

Chart comparing the challenges of the traditional school environment with how academic and life coaching can help students succeed in middle school and high school, college, and the young adult transition
A student and coach discussing strengths

Parents have repeatedly affirmed that sharing a common strengths-based language can be transformative in their relationships with their children.

Strengths-Based Coaching

Strengths based coaching helps students and parents discover and develop their strengths by building on what they do best, the ways they naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals.

Dr. Rogers is a trained and certified Strengths Communicator and Practitioner© who uses the science based StrengthsFinder, StrengthsQuest, and StrengthsExplorer psychometric tools to guide her strengths based coaching with students and families.

A student discovering their strengths

For Students

Students take a strengths psychometric assessment that guides a personalized strengths portfolio created by Dr. Rogers. With an international presence as a talent measurement instrument, this assessment helps students discover and build upon their talents and strengths. It is used by thousands of students across more than 600 schools and universities, supporting them in understanding their individual strengths and using them as a foundation for personal development.

Strengths-based coaching helps students:
  • Discover and develop their greatest natural talents.
  • Progress towards personal excellence.
  • Improve grades and learning by making the most of their talents.
  • Identify rewarding career paths based on their unique strengths.
  • Apply their talents in leadership, service, and relationship-building.
A parent and child talking together

For Parents

Discover your unique talents and strengths and learn how to use them to empower your parenting journey. Champion’s strengths-based parent coaching combines practical parenting advice with best practices, neuroscience, and over three decades of research in strengths psychology. Parents have repeatedly affirmed that sharing a common strengths-based language has been transformative in their relationships with their children. Your family is the most important operating system in the world. Enjoy the journey!

Strengths-based coaching can help parents:
  • Communicate more effectively, reduce misunderstandings, and tailor discipline and encouragement.
  • Manage challenges and disappointments while finding learning opportunities in adversity.
  • Establish a shared co-parenting approach.
  • Choose the right time and message for important conversations.
  • Establish routines and schedules for the family.
  • Communicate effectively with their child's school.
  • Support their child's unique academic and life journey towards becoming a successful adult.