Meet Yolanda - Elevate U Consulting LLC

As a Master Certified Coach, Yolanda gets to know YOU and then understand your current and ideal state of being, by coming alongside to help you identify strengths to leverage so you can overcome challenges to achieve next level impact from a more confident and capable you. Yolanda is compelled to shine a light on your greatness while supporting you to chip away the barriers for increased personal fulfillment and impactful performance. Clients appreciate the balance of support and accountability toward the right intended goal. She actively and thoughtfully listens to what you don’t say as much as to what you do so that deep, purposeful, and transformational work occurs toward attaining the desires of your heart and fulfillment of your purpose with great passion and excitement.

Yolanda Greer

After achieving status as a top rated assistant principal in Denver, she went on as the principal of Vista PEAK Exploratory where she led her team from ‘priority improvement’ status to a ‘performance’ school for three consecutive years.

Yolanda’s twenty plus years in the public school system in conjunction with more than ten years in formal ministry highlighted the need to meet people and teams where they are and support them forward.

For several years, she and her husband Rod, of 25 years, facilitated a Life Group entitled Parenting with Purpose; its mission is to equip parents to train their children in a way that produces respectable, self-sufficient, empowered and productive citizens.

Yolanda has spoken at various seminars/workshops in the Denver Metro Area and has been a Parenting/Education contributor for SHINE magazine. She holds the 1994 Ms. Black Colorado Pageant title and served our country in two tours overseas by entertaining our troops with the Afro-Caribbean band, Hot Molina, with the Department of Defense. She loves to travel and spend time with her supportive husband and their three inspirational young adult children who are serving in the fields of medicine, education, and business.

Yolanda has experienced executive and spiritual coaching for several years and declares, “It is a must have tool one cannot afford not to employ when serious about purpose, elevating effectiveness, productivity, performance, and advancement”. From her personal experience she states, “Coaching sessions have provided me clarity, and renewed energy and focus over the course of the last 10 plus years. We identify feasible steps to take to advance in work and life that have produced immediate and long term results. The intensive and strategic coaching has been highly engaging, thought provoking, forward thinking, and pushed me to reach my full potential as an effective school leader while finding harmony personally.”

As a Professional Certified Coach, Yolanda gets to know YOU and then understand your current and ideal state of being, by coming alongside to help you identify strengths to leverage to overcome to achieve next level impact from a more confident and capable you. Yolanda is compelled to shine a light on your greatness while supporting you to chip away the barriers for increased personal fulfillment and impactful performance. Clients appreciate the balance of support and accountability toward the intended goals which sometimes are discovered to be not the right goals. She actively and thoughtfully listens to what you don’t say as much as to what you do so that deep, purposeful, and transformational work occurs toward attaining the desires of your heart and fulfillment of your purpose with great passion and excitement.

More About Yolanda

Mrs. Greer earned a BA from the University of Northern Colorado in Spanish: Bilingual/Bicultural Education and English as a Second Language. She is licensed in Elementary Education and highly qualified in Spanish, with a master’s degree in School Administration. After achieving status as a top rated assistant principal in Denver, she went on as the principal of Vista PEAK Exploratory where she led her team from ‘priority improvement’ status to a ‘performance’ school for three consecutive years. Yolanda’s twenty plus years in the public school system in conjunction with more than ten years in formal ministry highlighted the need to meet people and teams where they are and support them forward. For several years, she and her husband Rod, of 25 years, facilitated a Life Group entitled Parenting with Purpose; its mission is to equip parents to train their children in a way that produces respectable, self-sufficient, empowered and productive citizens. Yolanda has spoken at various seminars/workshops in the Denver Metro Area and has been a Parenting/Education contributor for SHINE magazine. She holds the 1994 Ms. Black Colorado Pageant title and served our country in two tours overseas by entertaining our troops with the Afro-Caribbean band, Hot Molina, with the Department of Defense. She loves to travel and spend time with her supportive husband and their three inspirational young adult children who are serving in the fields of medicine, education, and business. Yolanda has experienced executive and spiritual coaching for several years and declares, “It is a must have tool one cannot afford not to employ when serious about purpose, elevating effectiveness, productivity, performance, and advancement”. From her personal experience she states, “Coaching sessions have provided me clarity, and renewed energy and focus over the course of the last 10 plus years. ”

Yolanda also serves as

Thought Partner for University of Virginia Partnership for Leaders in Education

Executive Coach with Integris Advisors, Center for Coaching Certification and Coach 1-2-3

Leadership Practices Inventory Coach and LPI Administer

CASE LEAD Program Facilitator for aspiring leaders

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Check out this recent article on Yolanda- Voyage Denver Hidden Gems

If you are in search of:

An ideal version of you
Moving from current state to ideal state
Stepping up to the next level of impact and influence
Increasing self-awareness and/or confidence
Generating a plan forward from being stuck or uncertain toward sure and focused
Enhancing as a strategic leader through Visioneering
Increasing humanity within your workplace
Being a more collaborative and inclusive leader and/or team member
Maximizing use of time, increasing efficiency and effectiveness
Engaging in the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) 360 and understanding the results to increase your demonstration of the effective practices
Assessing via the DiSc to understand your own personality and implications as well as for teams to strengthen mindful collaborative dynamics
Participating in Emergenetics to increase awareness of self and others’ thinking preferences and how to meaningfully engage
Then connect with Elevate U Consulting

What Clients Say About Yolanda

“Over the past 4 years, I have been supported by Yolanda in many ways, both professionally and personally. Last year, she coached me through the pandemic when leading others took on many unexpected challenges. When I reach out to Yolanda for a time to problem solve, she holds space and provides insight into how to best support a difficult situation or a hurting person. Yolanda is the person I reach out to when I need to think through a situation from a faith based leadership perspective. My faith is my compass and foundation to all of the important decisions I make. It is always so helpful and encouraging after meeting with Yolanda when I need help anchoring back to our common beliefs and understanding of how we are called to be as leaders. I hope to know and receive support from Yolanda for many years to come.”

“Yolanda has provided me with ongoing mentoring as I have navigated being a new principal. I started, in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, in July 2020. Yolanda quickly reached out to me, offering to meet as regularly as I wanted and was willing to cover any topics that I needed. When we began meeting, Yolanda was providing me with a variety of resources for new principals like how to structure the school year, what to prioritize and when, pitfalls to be cautious of, and who to connect with in the district for various reasons. She became my lifeline and I attribute my successfully remaining in my school, with a focus and determination, to the support I received from Yolanda. As I reflect on the past two years, I cannot imagine having survived without Yolanda’s support. I have direction, clarity, and renewed fervor for this critically important work. This is all thanks to the time, resources, and support that Yolanda has provided to me.”

“During my four years of leadership thus far there are a few people that have had a significant impact on my leadership trajectory and Yolanda is one of them. She is a consummate professional, strategic, charismatic and thrives off of building the capacity of other leaders within our district. What I value most is her ability to hold us accountable towards our why and ensuring that we reflect it in our impact and influence on staff and student outcomes. I have become a more intentional leader as a result of my experience with Yolanda. She is definitely a leader's leader!”

“Yolanda has been a great thought partner, listener, and advisor. I appreciate the coaching. Our sessions have challenged me to grow in my career goals.”

“Yolanda has a unique balance of deep felt compassion and the ability to move her clients forward. As a coach, she is both empathetic but also empowering, and helps her clients to acknowledge the reality of their situation without allowing the circumstances to impede their forward momentum.”