The Productive Flourishing Academy
Where Big Hearts, Big Dreams, and Big Results Meet
Join a community of motivated professionals looking to thrive in their work, teams, businesses, and lives. A hybrid of one-on-one coaching, group coaching, hands-on workshops, and office hours with coaches and subject matter experts.
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Cliche, but true: You’ve got BIG dreams.
Dreams of a better life, a successful business, a higher-performing team, and/or a respected career. Dreams of more money (much more money). All earned in a way that serves your purpose, people, and planet.
But the struggle to make all of this amazingness happen is, well, real.
You know these challenges all too well:
You want to feel inspired and energized but instead you feel overwhelmed and over it
You are focused on the day-to-day or week-to-week management of your team and projects, not the quarterly or yearly or further vision that your company needs you to have
Feeling like you have too many priorities and not enough time to get to what really matters
It’s easy for your team to drift off track because you are heads-down in the work and your team hasn’t had the guidance it needs (you thought they did!)
Your schedule looks like Swiss cheese and you don’t have the focus time you need, yet again, for your 10X work
You throw all your energy into moving things forward at work leaving your tank empty for any sort of “life”
You need support with making time to get the focus you need to do your best work, which will help you and your team get the clarity needed to make great things happen in the world.
You don’t have to go it alone.
How Can the Productive Flourishing Academy Help You?
You don’t have to walk the workaholic, lonely, no-time-for-anything-but-business road that’s all too easy to turn down.
It’s possible to succeed on your own terms without struggling and grinding so hard.
You know in your bones that your work, ideas, contributions, perspectives, and gumption matter. You also know, deep down, that there’s a way to do more than survive and get through.
You can thrive in your craft, in your business and career, and in your life.
Get the support you need. Being in the Academy will help you:
Build in (and actually use) focused time to develop your strategy and manage your priorities
Redesign or rediscover the parts of your job that you love and help you give other people their jobs back
Save yourself and your team from stuckness so you can perform better sustainably (without the burnout/stuck/new-team cycles)
Feel less lonely from having to always be "on" without someone to support you
Build better team habits and workways to address gaps and improve belonging and performance
The Productive Flourishing Academy integrates our decades of experience working with people just like you to create lasting success and results for our members.
Because we’ve guided thousands of people on this journey over the decades, we can confidently say: no one’s picture is as perfect as it looks in social spaces. And no one is self-made.
It takes a community to thrive. Welcome to your community.
The Productive Flourishing Academy Experience
We created the Productive Flourishing Academy as a community of practice for entrepreneurs and professionals who work in teams who want to consciously learn, create, grow, be, and share together.
When you join the Productive Flourishing Academy you get A LOT — and all of these elements create bigger results than what's possible on your own.
Personalized Coaching: Unlock Your Full Potential
It’s hard to read the label when you’re stuck inside the jar.
We can walk around for years, replaying the same mental and behavioral loops and continue getting the same results. Sometimes we need an outside and objective perspective to see what’s really going on.
Inside the Academy you get almost weekly opportunities to sit in the support seat and get individualized coaching by Charlie, Angela, and a host of experienced coaches.
Many Academy members share that they learn so much and feel coached and seen even when someone else is in the support seat. If you’ve never worked with a coach before, observing someone being coached is a great way to ease your way into it.
Quarterly Planning Sessions: Identify Priorities, Celebrate Your Wins, and Stay on Track
You probably know that having a practice of planning and reviewing every quarter would be a good thing to do. CoolCoolCool.
Are you doing it, though?
No judgment there if you’re not. We all know intellectually that we should do certain things, and yet we don’t do them.
Imagine having a quarterly plan that was strategic enough to make sure you’re focusing on what matters most, concrete enough to guide your months and weeks, and flexible enough to not be obsolete before you finished it?
You’ll create a plan just like this during our quarterly planning sessions.
Paradigm-Shifting Workshops: Learn, Apply, Grow
If you’ve been around Productive Flourishing for a while, you know how prolific we are at creating tools, frameworks, models, and practices to help people do their best work.
But the reality is that you’ve only seen the very tip of the iceberg. There’s only so much you can put in blog posts, articles, books, and courses.
Our workshops, masterclasses, and fireside chats share the transformational resources that we use in our private coaching, training, and teaching. They’re not just about MOAR IDEAS though -- they focus on how you’ll implement the ideas to do better work and thrive.
A Sampling of Our Previous Workshops
Free-Form Office Hours: Get the Coaching and Feedback You Need, When You Need It
We are full-spectrum coaches, meaning that we know that there’s no clean division between your work, your business, and your life. We also know that as you work on one of those areas, you’ll bump into aspects of the other areas.
That’s why we carve out regular sessions to give our members a free space to bring up the “off topic” issues or questions they have.
Have a question outside of the regular curriculum? Slide on into Office Hours.
If it matters to you, it matters to us. And 95% of the time, someone else will have your same question but just didn’t have the words to express it.
Collaborative Co-working: Stay Focused and Achieve More Together
True story: we started offering community co-working sessions back in 2014. Well before it was a Thing, we knew it was a powerful way to finish your best work and have fun while doing it.
Working alongside supportive peers bakes in soft accountability, fun, and community in a way that just works for a lot of people.
These sessions can be open, but our members will also give them a special purpose if enough people need to do the same things. We’ve seen co-working sessions around:
Social media strategy and content planning
Creative practice (whatever that might be for you!)
Catching up on past workshops
Completing weekly, monthly, or quarterly reviews
(For our early birds) catching the worm sessions
We currently have seven weekly co-working sessions available at time zones that work for wherever you live.
Don’t struggle to get it done alone; join us and get it done while you’re having fun with others.
Exclusive Access to Top Experts: Get Insider Tips from Industry Leaders
Charlie, Angela, and our community coaches are polymaths that know a lot, but we don’t know everything. And even when we do know something, we’d rather bring in a guest expert to share their expertise and perspective.
For this, we tap into the high-caliber network of advisors, consultants, teachers, and subject matter experts that we rely on to guide us. You’ve probably seen some of them on the interwebs, too.
Want to learn from someone but don’t know how to reach them? Join us and let us know -- you’d be surprised what we can make happen.
Here are a few of our previous guest experts and topics:
Meet Your Hosts
Charlie Gilkey
Founder, author, speaker, business strategist, podcaster, and more
I am the lead consultant, coach, and strategist at Productive Flourishing. I have nearly 20 years of fieldwork that incorporates systems thinking, strategy execution, leadership and organizational development, practical innovation, and communication.
Besides the technical expertise, I possess a passionate drive to help business owners and leaders achieve more than they could have ever imagined. My experience includes leading 200+ soldiers in the U.S. Army, 14 years consulting leaders in various industries in for-profit and nonprofit industries, writing award-winning books, and serving on various boards. My forthcoming book, Team Habits, is a guide to creating practices in teams that create great results and belonging. Learn more about Charlie.
Angela Wheeler, PhD
Founder, facilitator, coach, and more
I am the co-founder and chief community builder at Productive Flourishing. With a passion for facilitation and an unparalleled ability to get to the heart of what drives leaders and change makers, I consider it an honor to hold space for and be a mirror for others to do their best work.
I have more than 20 years of experience teaching, coaching, facilitating, and leading in different sectors, including in academia, for-profit and non-profit industries, and spiritual communities. With my broad knowledge and experience, and a unique lens of rooted leadership that focuses on strengths and development, not deficiencies, I help leaders create dynamic, authentic, trustworthy, and high-growth environments. Learn more about Angela.
Maghan Haggerty
Head of Education, coach, community manager, and more
Prior to being a coach and teacher in the Academy I was a founding member. Being in PFA helped me build not just the skill but the confidence to step into my best work and pursue coaching and curriculum development full time. (I never dreamed that would lead here!)
Charlie calls me the “connector of invisible threads.” I support the amplification of PF's education pillar through events, content, and products. Here in the Academy, I develop our quarterly curriculum and help our members navigate our extensive library of resources and content to find exactly what they need.
Meet Your Community of World-Changers
Our members come from diverse backgrounds and fields and bring with them big hearts, lots of smarts, and a penchant for changing the world through #GoodTrouble. We are always learning from each other and the inspiration and insights we gain through our work together are life and business-changing.
Our members start as strangers, become success pack members, and later become colleagues and deep friends. You’ll hear us refer to the community as our PFAmily, because this crew truly has your back and helps you grow.
Below are just a few of our members and some of their success stories from their work in the Academy.
The Productive Flourishing Academy integrates decades of experience working with people just like you. Read on to see how the Academy experience creates lasting success and results for our members.
Coming Up In the Academy
Each quarter we focus our curriculum, content, and coaching on a specific topic or area.
Q3 Curriculum Focus: Building strong habits to support your work, your team, your business, and your life.
Here's what's coming up in September 2023:
Join the Academy: Invest in Your Future
Annual Membership
- Access to all coaching, quarterly planning, and courses listed above to meet you right where you are
- Weekly co-working sessions to move the needle on your most important work
- Access to 3+ years of recordings and other teachings
- Private podcast feed to listen to all the sessions on the go
- Paid subscription to our Momentum App – your productivity coach on the go
- The Start Finishing Field Guide ebook
- Bonus when you pay in full: Within your first six months, you'll have a 1:1 coaching session with Angela or Maghan that will focus on a challenge keeping you from your goals or that’ll help you find your next best opportunity.
With the Academy's annual membership fee of $3,000, gain access to world-class coaching, workshops, and community co-working for less than $8 a day. And with our no-cost discovery session, you can be sure that you're making a worthwhile investment.
Start your PFA journey off on the right foot. As a new member you’ll have a roadmapping session with a PFA coach to map out an individualized plan so you know where to invest your time and energy and what you need to feel fully integrated into the community right from the start.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you found yourself saying “Yes, that’s me!” or “Are they in my brain right now?” as you read through, this is probably the right place for you. Fill out our application to schedule a no-cost discovery with us to make sure you’re a fit.
These can (and often do) happen at the same time (we know your time is valuable!). We start with a discovery call which is a no-pressure call to help you and us make sure you’re a good fit for the Academy.
Once we establish fit, we’ll move on to the roadmapping portion and create an individualized plan to set you up for success right from the start. We’ll plot out a path from where you are to where you want to go so you know exactly where to invest your time and energy.
The amount of time you spend is totally up to you and we want to make sure you understand that the time you put into the Academy is not extra time on top of the work you are already doing. It is time better spent and will save you precious time, energy, and money by helping you focus.
During your roadmapping session we'll identify the specific events, resources, and activities that will help you on your journey (especially during your first few months).
A good plan to make sure you get the best benefit from your time with us is to expect to spend 2 - 4 hours/quarter on your quarterly planning and review and another 2 - 4 hours per month in either hands-on workshops or coaching sessions.
If you are someone who thrives with having buddies and accountability that will help you get your work done faster you can spend even more time in the community every week doing hands-on work with an accountability team and/or in co-working sessions.
When you join the Academy it is a full year commitment but we understand committing the funds up front can be challenging so we do offer a monthly payment plan should you need the option to pay over time.
Monthly: $300 payment each month for 12 months
If you choose to pay in full for the annual membership ($3,000), in addition to the initial discovery and roadmapping session you will also get a 1:1 coaching session sometime in the first two quarters to make sure you are using the roadmap we created in the beginning and fine tuning things for you based on where you are at on your journey.
We want to make sure you know that you are making a year-long commitment by joining us in the Academy. We take the time to have a discovery and roadmapping session with you before you join to make sure we are a fit for one another and that you can grow within the container we have created for our phenomenal community. This is a commitment that requires dedication and work and we are committed to being accountable to you for the commitment you have made. We do not give refunds, barring extreme circumstances. Our hope is that this will be more than a year-long commitment and that you will want to stay with us and this community for the long term as you continue to grow.
If the tiniest piece of you thinks this is for you, it takes less than 10 minutes to fill out the interest form.
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