Range with ONE
Range is partnering with ONE Coaching for The Caregiver Community. They have worked alongside each other for years, connected by a shared belief in the power of coaching, leadership, and community. Their own caregiving journeys brought that connection into sharper focus. While their experiences have been different, they both know what it means to care deeply for someone while continuing to show up as a leader, partner, parent, professional, and friend. They created The Caregiver Community as the space they each wished they had, a place to step outside the caregiver role, reconnect with the whole person, and navigate caregiving alongside others who understand. Because caregivers deserve a community that cares for them, too.
Amy & Pegah’s Caregiver Stories
Amy’s Connection
Leadership requires range. The same person leading a team one day may be taking a call from a hospital room or making end-of-life decisions the next. I know this firsthand. Over two decades in public education, including as a school superintendent and leadership coach, I also served as power of attorney and caregiver for my late brother and a parent with dementia while raising a family and growing my career. Those experiences taught me that leadership and life are never separate, and that caregiving requires courage, communication, boundaries, and adaptability. My work alongside communities in Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Chicago also showed me the power of people caring for one another through difficult circumstances. Today, as a leadership coach and consultant with Range Associates, I coach leaders through the seasons that ask the most of them, helping them show up for their teams and their loved ones without losing themselves along the way. I also partner with organizations to modernize data capabilities and improve the processes that drive outcomes. The Caregiver Community brings these experiences together to create the space I wish I had: a place where caregivers can step out of the caretaker role and be cared for too.
To learn a bit more about Amy’s caregiving story:
Preserving Dignity and Purpose: A Caregiver’s Journey Through Memory Loss Support
Pegah’s Connection
My caregiving journey began five days after my second child was born, when my father suffered multiple strokes during COVID. Over the next several years, I navigated doctors, hospitals, insurance, dementia, respite care, and ultimately end-of-life care while raising a family and continuing to build my nearly 20-year career in education and leadership development in Houston. My mother was his primary caregiver, while my brother and I shared the responsibility alongside our own full lives. I found caregiver support groups and dementia education courses, but I couldn’t find a space focused on me, the mother, wife, daughter, sister, leader, and friend beyond my caregiver role. My own leadership coaches became that space for me, helping me reconnect with myself while carrying an enormous responsibility that so many others go through, yet our societal structures don’t support. That experience inspired me to create a space in my executive coaching and leadership development business where other caregivers could do the same. The Caregiver Community is rooted in a simple belief: caregivers need care too, and deserve to not feel alone in their very common, but less talked about, journeys.
Monthly Themes
- Who am I beyond caregiving?
- Needs, values, boundaries, and self-nurturing
- Staying connected to yourself while caregiving
- Changing traditions and expectations
- Family gatherings, travel, and logistics
- Grief and difficult anniversaries
- Healthcare, insurance, paperwork, and care coordination
- POA and decision-making
- In-home vs. facility care
- Siblings and spouses who you feel aren’t aligned or contributing as you need them to
- Impact on your own spouse and children
- Boundaries, communication, and asking for help
- Anticipatory and ambiguous grief
- End-of-life conversations and planning
- What matters most now?
- The cumulative impact of caregiving
- Reconnecting with identity, relationships, work, and purpose
- Building sustainable practices and support
What You’ll Take With You
The Caregiver Community gives you 60 minutes a month to pause, tell your story, hear the stories of others, and discover practical tools, trusted resources, and ideas that may help you think through what comes next. It’s not therapy, medical, hospice, legal advice, or one-to-one coaching; it’s a facilitated space where the power of storytelling and shared experience helps you find connection, perspective, and solutions that fit your own story. Make room for yourself to step back, reconnect with yourself, and experience caregiving differently.
We understand your time is a sacred resource, and we placed these sessions over the lunch hour to account for that as best we could. If a 1:1 session with one of your facilitators feels like a better fit, please reach out.
Session Dates
Meet Your Facilitators
A leadership coach and consultant who spent over two decades leading in public education, including as a district superintendent, Amy now coaches leaders and consults with schools and school systems, non-profit organizations, and businesses. Her work centers on supporting clients in caring for themselves and others while leading connected and impactful teams and organizations. Within a family of divorced parents, Amy was a caregiver for her late brother Michael and is now a caregiver for her mother, who has dementia. She holds many roles at one time, including spouse, parent, friend, leader, and Power of Attorney. More at within-range.com.
Founder and Executive Coach of ONE Coaching, and your facilitator. A former founding school principal who built leadership pipeline and development programs across the state of Texas, Pegah is a PCC-certified coach who works through an Ownership & Empowerment lens. She is also a mentor coach for coaches getting certified through the International Coaching Federation, as well as a certified administrator of the EQi 2.0/360 Emotional Intelligence Assessment. Pegah supported the caregiving of her father with dementia while navigating a newborn and toddler for nearly five years during the height of COVID. More at onecoachingllc.com.
Guest speakers and experts will rotate into the space based on the themes and topics most relevant to the session. These contributors will bring practical expertise, perspectives, and tools that complement the group coaching and peer conversation.
Welcoming our first guest facilitator, Dr. Blanca Ruiz.
Dr. Blanca Ruiz (she/her/ella) is a public-school educator, leader, and ICF certified leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in teaching and leadership in public/charter schools. She maintains an ongoing commitment to disrupting racial inequities in organizational practices and actively increasing consciousness to unlearn, relearn and disrupt biases in structures, policies, and practices. She practices strengths-based and human-centered coaching as a means towards learning and development. She blends her experience and expertise to facilitate workshops on leadership development, change management, and the impact of socialization and identity on decision-making. Blanca is a 1st-gen college graduate, mother, wife, coach, consultant “mompreneur” who wears multiple hats, including caregiving for her Mami until her final days. Blanca recognizes communal connection is a healing balm for our soul.
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