Great services don’t happen by accident—they’re built through strong leadership, skilled staff, and everyday practices that work.
My time-tested trainings help developmental disability providers tackle the real challenges that get in the way of excellent services for all provider problems.
From staff professionalism and retention to leadership skills, meaningful support, and regulatory compliance.
Each training is practical, engaging, and designed to deliver strategies providers can apply immediately.
Learn to live with the challenges they consistently experience in the provider world;
Leave the field and the individuals they love in favor of other work.
Permanently solve your problems so they stay gone for good
A Pennsylvania provider was dealing with high turnover and state audits that stretched to three days with many citations.
I implemented my deep-dive supervisor training, restructured leadership systems, and rebuilt their compliance process.
Turnover dropped dramatically, and those same audits are now finished in a single day—and citations are rare.
“Small compliance mistakes keep multiplying, and audit preparation takes hours of stressful cleanup.”
Go with the Ultimate Compliance Acing Formula, where you’ll learn to build the foundation of a strong compliance framework, strengthen daily staff practices, and eliminate last-minute audit preparation.
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“Individuals aren’t eating healthy, balanced meals, grocery costs are climbing, and opportunities to build food skills are being missed.”
Choose the Beyond Chicken Nuggets, and you will learn how to create healthy meals while meaningfully involving the individuals you support, turning meal preparation into a fun, skill-building activity instead of a tedious chore.
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“Supervisors are buried in questions, staff struggles to remember their training, and bringing everyone together for more training feels impossible.”
Then 25 Failproof Ongoing Training Techniques will give you the tools you need to keep staff skills sharp, expectations clear, and staff on track without pulling everyone in for days of training.
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“Staff tends to ‘do for’ instead of helping individuals build independence, service plans stay the same year after year, and opportunities for real choice and growth are being missed.”
You need the Top 25 Supported Decision-Making Strategies to learn how to give individuals the power to run their own lives, decide what they value, and make their own informed decisions.
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“Supervisors struggle to hold staff accountable, feel caught between staff and management, and spend more time putting out fires than leading their teams.”
Then enroll the team in Frontline Supervisor Success Academy, where supervisors gain a deeper understanding of themselves as leaders, develop their ownership-building chops, and ensure their teams have the skills needed to foster greater independence in the lives of the individuals they serve.
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“The same everyday problems keep popping up, staff mistakes, training gaps, communication breakdowns, and service habits that quietly undermine quality.”
So this is the training library you’ll want to own and have ready whenever your team needs it: The Provider Power Pack: Everyday Excellence in Action.
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“Individuals spend too much time bored or disengaged, staff struggles to create activities based on individuals’ interests, and daily routines aren’t building skills or independence.”
The training you need is Bored to Busy Blueprint. Here you’ll learn my super simple process for developing and integrating a year’s worth of community-based, relationship-building activities based on individuals’ actual interests.
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“Supervisors are expected to lead teams but receive little structured leadership training, and your organization needs a consistent way to develop strong supervisors from within.”
Then The Frontline Leadership Lab is the answer your agency needs. This out-of-the-box comprehensive curriculum allows agencies to control the pace and schedule of training delivery while consistently developing confident frontline supervisors.
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“Supervisors are busy managing problems but lack a clear framework for effective supervision.”
Frontline Supervisor Intensive will help them master the fundamentals of supervision, provide answers to their most urgent challenges, and provide an individualized action plan that they can implement right away.
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“Staff is lacking professionalism, follow-through, solid customer service, and effective communication skills.”
Add Keeping It Professional to your training library for on-demand training at your fingertips. Staff will learn what each customer wants from them, how to meet those wants, and communicate effectively and responsibly from start to finish.
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“You’re facing a complex leadership challenge, sense that something in your organization needs to change, or simply need a confidential sounding board to think through your next move.”
Book an Executive Clarity Session to gain clearer insight into the root of the challenge you're facing, and a fresh perspective on complex leadership or organizational issues. Sometimes the most valuable leadership work happens in a conversation.
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Eight of Sara Sherman’s most requested conference presentations: downloadable one-hour trainings your organization owns and can use anytime with your team.
I help developmental disability providers finally put an end to the frustrating, time-sucking problems that keep you stuck — so you can get back to building amazing lives with the people you support.
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