Empowering clarity and growth at every stage of life.
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Unlock Your Leadership Potential
We specialize in empowering ambitious professionals to achieve purpose, impact, & work-life harmony by mastering soft skills.
Empowering Ambitious Professionals with Purposeful Growth
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Through personalized coaching and transformative professional development programs, we stand out by delivering practical, results-driven solutions that fuel career and personal success.
Program & Services
The COLE Academy of Personal Growth
For professionals and organizations ready to build personal leadership and growth while empowering your team with customized professional development training to elevate skills, foster collaboration, and enhance leadership capabilities. Our soft skills workshops are tailored to address key challenges in communication, team dynamics, and strategic thinking, helping professionals grow personally and thrive in their roles. Whether you’re looking to boost employee engagement, develop emerging leaders, or navigate organizational change, our interactive sessions deliver actionable strategies and measurable results. Transform your workforce into a high-performing team ready to tackle today’s challenges with confidence.
Adulting In My Purpose
For millennial professionals navigating life, leadership, and purpose but needing coaching, community, and clarity. This program focuses on developing leadership skills, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence with
- One-on-one coaching sessions tailored to individual leadership challenges.
- Assessment tools to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
- Goal-setting frameworks to enhance leadership effectiveness.
- Ongoing support through follow-up sessions and accountability checks.
WAVE Youth Leadership Program
For students and emerging leaders, developing the skills to thrive in life and leadership. We equip students in secondary education with the essential skills needed to excel academically, professionally, and personally. Our dynamic training programs focus on leadership, time management, communication, conflict resolution, resilience, and empowering students to set goals, overcome challenges, and unlock their full potential. Through engaging workshops and interactive activities, students gain the tools and confidence to thrive in any environment.
ASSESSMENTS
CHARACTER STRENGTHS
FIND OUT WHAT ARE YOUR CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Take our Character Strength Assessment by registering and completing the survey. The Values in Action (VIA) Survey is one of the leading assessments to highlight an individual's character strengths. This survey measures 24 character strengths which fall under six overarching categories, namely wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, or transcendence.
Communication Impact Report & DISC Report
Each of us is wired with a very unique style of communication and collaborating with others. When we take our best and use it to serve people and projects, we can enjoy a higher degree of performance and a lesser degree of difficulty in our interactions with others. Knowledge of the DISC System empowers you to understand yourself, family members, co-workers, and friends, in a profound way. Understanding behavioral styles helps you become a better communicator, minimize or prevent conflicts, appreciate the differences in others and positively influence those around you.
Entrepreneur Impact Report
Student Success Report (8-12 year old)
The world’s great economies, civilizations, innovations, and inventions have been the result of successful entrepreneurship. Perhaps you have a clear picture of your product or service, your business plan, and even your goals; but do you have a clear picture of your own strengths, communication style, and your selling strengths and challenges?
In this report, you will discover:
The environment where you do your best work, how you communicate naturally and how you can best communicate with others.
Student Success Report (8-12 year old)
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
Student Success Report (8-12 year old)
You will learn about your unique personality. Unlike a test you may take in school, there is no pass or fail. This report simply shows which of the four primary personality styles you have the most energy in. There is no good or bad report, just like there is no good or bad thumbprint. Each of us has special gifts, talents, and personality traits that make us amazing.
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
This report provides students and those in the midst of career transition with a well-rounded view of their communication style, how their ideals show up in the work they do, their cognitive thinking and learning styles, their strengths as shown in our Power DISC the way they most influence results and there are several examples of career’s that would make great use of their strengths.
Sales Impact Report
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
College and Career Impact Report (HS, College students)
Each participant will learn their unique selling style, their strengths and how to maximize them, their challenges and how to overcome them, the keys to recognizing their prospect’s buying style and the five-point strategy to improving sales with each of the four primary buying styles. If you sell any product, service, or a combination thereof, the Maxwell Sales Impact Report will guide you to impactful results!
Meet Nicole "Dr. Nic" Rankine
Dr. Nicole Rankine: Adjunct Professor, Leadership and Personal Growth Coach, Author, Entrepreneur, and Empowerment Speaker.
Dr. Nicole Rankine, affectionately known as Dr. Nic, is one of the most engaging certified Leadership Trainers and Personal Growth Coaches around. She is a John Maxwell Team Leadership Consultant and a DISC Human Behavior Consultant who helps organizational leaders grow by teaching them soft skills to increase leadership development, personal growth, and communication.
Dr. Nic’s professional career spans over 20 years and she now travels both nationally and internationally teaching soft skills to leaders and youth worldwide. Dr. Rankine also serves as an Adjunct Professor and is the author of Adulting In My Purpose the Journal, a journal design to help young professionals with their personal growth and professional development.