Lift the Weight of Leadership.
Turn the unspoken stress that wakes you at 3 am into calm, confident decisions.
Helping LTC leaders reclaim their energy and sense of purpose. By identifying what keeps you awake at 3 AM, we break cycles of reactivity that drain your spirit and cloud your mission focus.
Together, we’ll develop sustainable leadership practices that safeguard what matters most—your well-being, your team's trust, and the care values that initially drew you to this work.
I partner with healthcare leaders to help them emerge as stronger, skillful, and self-aware leaders who guide their teams through complex challenges.
Your dedication is unquestionable, but that dedication comes with a cost.
The Hidden Cost of Compassionate Leadership
You lead a long-term care facility, balancing resident care, family expectations, and staff needs while navigating ever-changing regulations..
Your 3 AM anxiety isn't random.
Each night, your mind replays the day’s difficult decisions.
Did you handle that family complaint correctly?
How will you address tomorrow's managers’ meeting?
What about the upcoming compliance inspection?
While you project calm confidence to your team, internally, you're carrying the weight of countless lives and decisions.
And the most challenging part?
The constant cycle of reactive leadership keeps you from the strategic, mission-focused work that first called you to this profession.
The greatest obstacle to your effectiveness isn't the external pressure; it’s your reactive responses that create exhausting leadership cycles.
Those patterns manifest as:
Compulsively checking reports and emails during personal time
Hours spent second-guessing decisions after feedback
Defensive reactions to team questions about direction
The struggle to step away even when personal needs are pressing
The Weight You Carry
Through habits, patterns, and the daily stresses that trigger you.
Break the Cycle of Reactive Leadership
I leverage the pattern-recognition framework of the ATA Enneagram model to uncover unconscious patterns driving your leadership. This insightful personality framework illuminates both your automatic reactions under pressure and the underlying motivations that create these recurring patterns, including those unspoken stresses that disrupt your sleep. Through pattern recognition, we uncover your core motivations and habitual responses to workplace pressures. By recognizing these automatic patterns specific to your Instinctual Bias and Enneagram type, you gain the awareness needed to interrupt reactive cycles before they take hold.
The self-understanding you gain enables you to shift from automatic reactions to deliberate choices, creating leadership responses that better serve your team and organization. With these new perspectives and practices in place, you can implement the specific leadership improvements outlined below.
About Heidi Taylor
How do you manage daily fires while still being an effective strategic leader? Work With Someone Who Understands the Weight You Carry
As a leadership development consultant with a background in social work and advanced certifications in leadership personality assessment, I understand the unique challenges of healthcare leadership, where every decision affects vulnerable lives, dedicated staff, and organizational sustainability. For 12 years, I have helped leaders turn reactive patterns into skillful leadership. Read the full story here
My approach focuses on turning reactive patterns into skillful responses, helping you:
Make decisions from a place of calm confidence rather than a compulsive reaction
Build genuine trust with staff, residents, and families
Create sustainable systems that don't depend solely on your presence
Move from constant firefighting to strategic leadership
Develop innovative solutions to critical HHR challenges
Support your team through post-pandemic burnout and resilience challenges
Align your leadership actions with the care values that brought you to this work