A Year of Leading: Six Capacities That Transform Leadership
Leave with a clear read on your own leadership and a handful of strategies you can put to work the same week.
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Lead with clarity · Principal with purpose
Real help for the hardest job in school.
Thirty-five years inside the principal’s office, turned into a book, workshops, and a coaching practice you can use on Monday.
- Named one of Canada’s outstanding principals
- Former president, BCPVPA
- ICF-certified coach
“Bearing — direction beats directions.”
Three ways to lighten the load
- 01Explore the book
Read it
A Year of Leading: forty short chapters — one for each week of the school year. Read one on a Sunday night and carry it into Monday.
- 02See workshops
Bring it to your team
Workshops and keynotes — half-day, full-day, or conference stage. Practical sessions your team uses on Tuesday, not leadership theory they’ll forget by Friday.
- 03Start coaching
Work it through
One-on-one coaching for the decisions you can’t talk through with anyone else. Real support, in your corner all year.
A Year of Leading
Short chapters for long weeks.
Leadership in schools is complex, demanding, and deeply human. A Year of Leading gives principals and vice-principals a companion for the whole year — concise chapters that help you reflect, reset, and lead with clarity.
- Built for a leader’s reality — short enough to read between meetings.
Buy the book →
Instant digital download, or in bulk for schools and districts.
“More than a book — a mentor and steady coach guiding you through complex leadership terrain.”
Workshops & presentations
Sessions your team can actually use.
From district leadership teams to national conferences, these sessions travel — across Canada and the U.S.
Generative Conversations: How to Talk Through What’s Hard
Walk away knowing how to handle the conversation you’ve been avoiding — and how to coach your team to do the same.
Essential skill
Leadership Development, Built for Your District
Built around your district’s goals — we design the sessions and the follow-up with your team.
Custom program
- Keynote (45–60 mins)
- Half-day (3.5 hrs)
- Full-day intensive (6.5 hrs)
- 90-min Zoom
Presentation topics
Leadership Development & Transitions
Designing leadership frameworks and supporting leadership transitions for new to role school leaders.
Coaching & Mentoring
Building coaching habits and developing reflective practices for effective school leadership.
Leading During Times of Change
Leading change, and shaping effective school cultures.
Governance, Advocacy & Organizational Leadership
Strengthening board governance and enhancing strategic planning.
Executive coaching
Start a conversationA place to think out loud about the hard calls.
One-on-one coaching for principals and vice-principals carrying decisions they can’t talk through with anyone else. Somewhere to problem-solve and to lead in a way that helps your staff and students thrive. Kevin is an ICF-certified coach.
35 Years in School Leadership
Kevin Reimer has spent his career alongside principals and vice-principals — first as a teacher and principal, then as a faculty advisor, and as President and Executive Director of the BCPVPA, where he advocated for school leaders across British Columbia.
Named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals in 2013, he has spent his career mentoring administrators and championing school leaders — always focused on the human side of leadership, not just the org chart.
Writing on leadership & humanity.
Read the archive
Kindness Is Not a Soft Skill — It’s a Cognitive Achievement
Exploring why empathy is the hardest work a leader does, especially when the stakes are high.
You Will Not Know If It Mattered
Leading through the ‘long middle’ when the results of your work are years away.
Every Principal Is a Juggler (And Some Balls Don’t Bounce)
A practical framework for deciding which balls to drop when the load becomes impossible.