Teaching Should Be H.E.A.R.T. Work, Not Hard Work
Healing-centered coaching for educators, and strategic partnership with schools, to address burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma before they lead to attrition.
Services Snapshot
For Educators, Schools, Districts, & Systems: (All services are delivered through a coaching and/or consulting lens and are non-clinical and non-therapeutic in nature. Coaching focuses on reflection, agency, clarity, and sustainable well-being, while consulting supports systems in identifying root causes and designing healing-centered strategies that support educators, schools, and communities).
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Individual & group coaching grounded in the A.H.E.A.R.T. Framework
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Coaching for burnout recovery and prevention (non-clinical, healing-centered)
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Coaching support for compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, focused on restoring capacity and agency, boundaries and care
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Clarity and sustainability coaching to support long-term well-being and decision making
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Signature speaking engagements using the A.H.E.A.R.T. Framework to reframe educator well-being, retention, and sustainability
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Coaching-centered professional learning experiences that prioritize educator well-being before performance
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Educator well-being strategy informed by coaching insights (not one-off PD)
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Retention and sustainability consulting grounded in what educators are naming and experiencing through coaching and reflection
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Coaching-informed strategy and consulting to help systems identify root causes of burnout and co-design sustainable supports that honor educator well-being, dignity, care, and supports that protect educator capacity
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Dr. Nichole J. Brown | Founder & CEO, The Next Level Educator, LLC
Dr. Nichole J. Brown, an Educator Wellness Coach, Architect, and Strategist helping educators and systems mitigate and/or rise from burnout into boldness through H.E.A.R.T. Work and purpose-driven strategy. As a former classroom teacher, and a current leader in higher education and educator preparation, Dr. Brown has experienced firsthand the unrealistic demands placed on educators—and the personal toll of systems that were never designed with educator well-being in mind. That lived experience, paired with over 15 years of educational leadership, and specialized training in wellness, SEL, restorative practices, trauma-aware leadership, and racial healing, informs every framework she creates. Her work bridges research, lived experience, and systems designed to address educator burnout, compassion fatigue, and attrition at the root. Rather than asking educators to simply cope within broken systems, she focuses on building structures that support sustainability, alignment, and long-term well-being. She created The Next Level Educator to support teachers, leaders, and changemakers through restorative wellness, intentional alignment, and healing-centered leadership practices. Through signature frameworks—The Well, The Exit Strategy, The Collective, and H.E.A.R.T. Work—she guides educators in reclaiming purpose, building resilience, and sustaining meaningful, impactful careers. She believes educators deserve more than survival. They deserve to thrive. Education is a sacred ecosystem—and when educators are whole, everything changes. Together, we learn to pause with intention, listen with grace, and rise with courage. Teaching, leading, and being should be H.E.A.R.T. work—not hard work. — Dr. Nichole J. Brown Your Next Level begins with your well-being. — Dr. Nichole J. Brown
