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Developing Confident Supervisors and Stronger Teams

Targeted leadership development for frontline and middle managers—designed to support your people and strengthen your culture without overwhelming your HR team.

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Leadership Academy

Do your middle managers need real world training? Our interactive, multiweek leadership academy blends practical tools, reflection, and real-time application to help leaders grow from the inside out and lead with courage, clarity, and connection.

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Interactive Team Workshops

Hands-on, facilitated experiences that help teams build trust, improve communication, and turn real-world challenges into shared clarity and momentum.

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Lunch and Learn Sessions

Engaging lunch-and-learn sessions that provide practical professional development, OSHA-compliant training, leadership skills, or wellness strategies—without the burden of planning or preparation for your team. Catered and BYO options available.

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Culture Audit and Action Plan

A comprehensive culture audit paired with a clear action plan that identifies what’s really happening inside your organization and provides practical steps to strengthen trust, alignment, and performance.

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Strategic Planning

Are you struggling to actionable strategic plans that align people, priorities, and purpose so organizations can move forward with confidence and cohesion.

Founder Jami McCray is a leadership development consultant, keynote speaker, and former senior HR executive who helps organizations turn good intentions into leadership that actually works. Her career spans healthcare, nonprofit, and real estate, giving her a grounded, real-world perspective on what leadership looks like when things are messy, high-stakes, and far from ideal.

Jami’s leadership journey includes leaving a comfortable HR Director role to operate a dialysis clinic, where operational crises, compliance deficiencies, and people challenges were part of daily life. She later managed leadership and workforce issues while overseeing a 91 property real estate portfolio, navigating everything from safety incidents to community dynamics. These experiences shaped her practical, people-centered approach to leadership: clear expectations, strong relationships, trust, and the courage to lead when things go sideways.

Through keynotes, workshops, and leadership academies, Jami supports new and developing supervisors as they build confidence, navigate conflict, give honest feedback, and shift from managing tasks to leading people. Her work is practical, people-centered, and free of buzzwords. Leaders leave with tools they can use right away and the confidence to keep learning as they grow.

Known for her engaging storytelling, warmth, and straight talk, Jami helps organizations build resilient, high-performing teams led by humans who are prepared for the real demands of leadership.