Executive Coaching for Camp Directors
Practical ideas and proven strategies to strengthen your business and achieve your camp's biggest goals.
Nick Teich, PhD, LCSW, coaches camp directors to overcome challenges in many areas, helping each director to save stress, time, and money that they can reinvest in their camps. He has helped dozens of camps over his long tenure in the industry.
The problem
Directing camp today is very different than it was 10 or 20 years ago.
Challenges are coming from all directions. The responsibility and stakes seem greater. Success looks different.
Nick has been an invaluable asset as a coach, offering thoughtful guidance and creative solutions for all aspects of camp. His ability to provide advice while acting as a trusted sounding board has not only strengthened our operations but has made me a more confident leader. Nick's insight, experience, and supportive approach have truly elevated my ability to navigate challenges and enhance the camp experience.
-E.B., Owner & Director of a 100+ year-old camp
The solution
What exactly is executive coaching for camp directors?
Think of it as having an experienced camp leader in your corner, year-round.
Every other week, we meet one-on-one and focus entirely on you, your camp, and what you want to accomplish. You set the goals. Nick helps you think them through, bring new ideas to the table, solve problems, and turn those goals into action.
You know your camp better than anyone. Nick's role is to bring experience, perspective, ideas, and accountability to help you make it even stronger.
Executive coaching means:
A co-pilot.
Someone who has founded and directed a camp and understands the decisions, challenges, and pressures that come with leading one.
Ideas from beyond your own camp.
Through Nick's work with many different camps, he can bring strategies, approaches, and ideas you may not have considered, and help determine what could work for your camp.
Practical problem-solving.
When something isn't working, Nick helps you dig into why and figure out what to do next.
A confidential space for the person at the top.
Camp leadership can be stressful and, at times, isolating. It helps to have someone who understands that experience and is focused exclusively on helping you succeed.
Turning goals into action.
Whether you're focused on enrollment, finances, staffing, facilities, leadership, program, or something else, Nick keeps your priorities moving forward.
A place to brainstorm.
Bring the half-formed idea, the ambitious goal, the problem you haven't solved, or the decision you've been going back and forth on. Nick and you will work through it together.
Someone who will push your thinking.
Not just a listening ear, but a thought and idea partner who will ask questions, offer suggestions, and help you see opportunities you might otherwise miss.
Nick backs his coaching with a guaranteed return on investment or you get a full refund.
Some examples of areas that camp directors work on with Nick
Making camp budgets and finances work to your advantage
Camper and staff mental wellness issues
Parent communication
Staffing and personnel issues
For non-profit camps: boards of directors and camp donors
Camper recruitment and growth
Facilities improvement
Management and looking at the future of your camp
Leadership teams
Director work-life balance
788%
return on investment for a business (Metrix Global Study)
What will your camp see in terms of return on investment (ROI)?
Executive coaching may sound expensive, but this package is built for camps, not multi-national corporations. One of the purposes of coaching is to help save your camp money. General executive coaching can yield a 788% return on investment for a business (Metrix Global Study).
Nick backs his coaching with a guaranteed return on investment or you get a full refund.
Who is Nick Teich?
Nick Teich, PhD, LCSW, has worked for camp since 2000. Using his skills as a social worker, camp founder, and longtime camp director, Nick helps directors hit and surpass their personal and business goals with his proven coaching process, giving them the ability to focus on making their organization the best possible place for the children and families they serve.
Nick has spent nearly all his professional life in the field of camp. He founded and directed an overnight camp in New Hampshire that is still thriving today. He is a recipient of the Peter Kerns Award for the Advancement of Professional Development for Camps. Nick serves as co-vice president of the board of ACA-New England. He recently ran a private camp directors' group for ACA-New England as well as director groups entitled “The Business of Camp” and “MESH (Mental, Emotional, and Social Health) Systems.” Learn more about Nick in his full bio here.
