Parent Leadership Foundations: Build Your Child’s Executive Function at Home 🧠
A Nine-Module Course for the Parent Doing the Coaching
Understand how your child’s self-management brain actually works, and get a science-backed coaching toolkit you can use at home, one small habit at a time.
Finally understand how your child’s brain works best, so the daily friction starts to make sense instead of feeling personal.
Watch your child’s confidence grow with strategies they will actually use, so homework and studying stop being a battle.
Move from frustrated to confident with a step-by-step method you can apply at home, for children and teens ages 4 to 18.
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You’re Not the Problem. The System Is
As a parent, you see your child’s brilliant potential every day. Yet, the modern learning environment can be overwhelming. Whether it’s missing deadlines, feeling frustrated before tests, or simply losing focus, many kids face these hurdles without a clear path forward. Without the right tools, these challenges can hold them back in school and beyond.
Meet Your Guide to Transformative Learning
At Kaizen Education, we’ve spent more than a decade researching and teaching executive skills that make a real difference. I’m Samantha Woods, founder of Kaizen Education Services, and I created Parent Leadership Foundations to put that coaching in your hands. It is self-paced and built for busy families, with nine modules you work through on your own schedule, plus exercises, printables and tools you and your child can use the same day.
Gentle Persuasion
How Do We Get Kids to Actually Engage?
Let’s be honest: tell kids “We’re working on study skills” and it’s like announcing extra chores. A hard sell.
But our founder Sam (brain nerd, veteran educator, parent whisperer) has cracked the code. No pushing or preaching, just conversations that make kids feel seen and safe. She talks to them, not at them, inviting them to just try.
Watch how Sam plants the seed of “this might actually help you” in ways that empower rather than punish.
When kids feel it’s for them, not done to them, they lean in. That’s when real growth begins.
Your 3-Step Plan as Your Child’s Coach
1
Understand
Start with how your child’s self-management brain actually works, so you can see the strengths and the sticking points clearly.
2
Learn
Work through nine modules that turn the science into concrete coaching moves you can use at home this week.
3
Thrive
Watch your child build confidence and independence as the habits take hold, one small change at a time.
What’s Included
What’s Inside Parent Leadership Foundations?
Nine self-paced modules, 42 video lessons, packed with practical strategies, self-checks and printables you can put to work the same week. Here’s what you get:
Start Here and Your Child's Profile
Get oriented, then build a clear picture of your child’s executive function profile, so everything that follows is aimed at the right thing.
What Executive Functioning Really Is
The plain-English version of how the self-management brain works, and why the daily friction at home is a skills gap rather than a character flaw.
You as Coach, the Method
The coaching stance that gets a child to lean in rather than dig in, and the conversation moves that make it work.
Memory and Learning That Sticks
How memory actually forms, and the study habits that turn effort into recall your child can rely on when it counts.
Attention and Focus
Practical ways to protect attention in a distracting world, and how to build focus your child can start, and restart, on their own.
Time, Planning, and Getting Started
Why getting started is the hardest part, and the routines that make planning, estimating and finishing feel possible.
Tests, and Showing What You Know
Preparation and test-day strategies that let your child show what they actually know, instead of what nerves allow.
The Regulated Brain, Sleep, Stress, and Wellbeing
Sleep, stress and regulation are the foundation every other skill sits on. This is how to steady them at home.
Motivation, Mindset, and Making It Last
How to keep momentum after the novelty wears off, so the new habits hold through a whole school year.
Our Promise
We believe every child deserves support that fits how they learn. Backed by over a decade of research and hands-on experience, our approach is both compassionate and effective. At Kaizen, we’re here to support you and your child every step of the way. This course supports, and does not replace, clinical care.
The Science
Measurable Gains
Lifelong Skills
The Science Behind Parent Leadership Foundations
Cutting-edge research supports the transformative power of executive function training, like what we teach in Parent Leadership Foundations, in boosting your child’s thinking and academic success. Studies in journals such as Frontiers in Psychology have shown that neuroscience-based programs can significantly enhance middle schoolers’ reasoning, critical thinking, and test scores.
Measurable Gains in Just 10 Sessions
Research shows that in as few as 10 sessions, executive function training can lead to measurable improvements in abstract thinking, cognitive flexibility, and deep focus. With Parent Leadership Foundations, you can empower your child to unlock their full potential and excel academically.
Fostering Lifelong Critical Thinking Skills
As a parent, you’re uniquely positioned to nurture the critical thinking skills that will serve your child both in school and throughout life. Parent Leadership Foundations offers a comprehensive, evidence-based executive function training program designed to boost your child’s cognitive development and academic success.
Ready to Get Started?
Your child’s journey to better focus, better study habits and more confidence starts with you. With Parent Leadership Foundations, you’re not just buying a course. You’re learning to coach.
Invest in Your Child’s Future
Complete Program
Nine Modules Covering Every Core Executive Skill:
1. Start Here and Your Child’s Profile
2. What Executive Functioning Really Is
3. You as Coach, the Method
4. Memory and Learning That Sticks
5. Attention and Focus
6. Time, Planning, and Getting Started
7. Tests, and Showing What You Know
8. The Regulated Brain, Sleep, Stress, and Wellbeing
9. Motivation, Mindset, and Making It Last
Twelve Months of Access
(learn at your own pace)
42 Professionally Recorded Video Lessons
Fun and Engaging Activities
Customizable Toolkits for Each Module
Practical Templates, Visuals and Printables
Parent Coaching Resources
$695 CAD
or $525 USD
Want more than a course?
Foundations is the self-directed starting point. When you want personalized interpretation and live support, two Parent Leadership options build on it.
Parent Leadership Program
$1,995 CAD or $1,495 USD
Personalized assessment and a family plan, plus a guided group of 6 to 10 parents. Best for parents who want personalized insight and a practical plan, supported by structured learning and shared discussion with other parents.
✔️ Everything in Parent Leadership Foundations
✔️ An Adult Brain Blueprint compared with a recent child Brain Blueprint or Child Executive Function Assessment
✔️ A specialist-reviewed Parent Support Profile and written action plan
✔️ A private 60-minute debrief with a qualified specialist
✔️ Six weekly 90-minute Parent Leadership group sessions, with a personalized Parent Toolkit after each
✔️ Three months of Parent Coaching Circle access
Each cohort launches once six parents have enrolled. Your assessment, profile, plan and private debrief can begin right away.
Parent Leadership Immersion
$4,995 CAD or $3,695 USD
A private six-month program for one household, with no cohort wait. Best for parents who want a highly personalized experience with deeper assessment, direct family strategy and ongoing implementation support.
✔️ Everything in Parent Leadership Foundations
✔️ A Cognitive Architectural Profile (CAP) for the primary parent and a child comparison assessment
✔️ A specialist-reviewed Parent Support Profile and written action plan
✔️ A private 60-minute CAP and family-pattern debrief
✔️ Four private 60-minute parenting sessions and one education and advocacy strategy session
✔️ Two 30-minute follow-ups, two customized Family Playbooks and two custom resource guides
✔️ Six months of Parent Coaching Circle access
The Parent Coaching Circle is a live, twice-monthly 90-minute group discussion led by a Kaizen-trained Parent Leadership expert, where parents share wins and struggles, bring current family questions and get advice they can use at home. It is included with the Program and the Immersion, and available on its own for six months at $1,295 CAD or $995 USD.
After the core program, private parent coaching continues in fixed three-month plans: the Momentum Plan with six private sessions at $2,495 CAD or $1,895 USD, or the Accelerator Plan with twelve private sessions at $4,495 CAD or $3,295 USD. Both include action-plan updates and Parent Coaching Circle access.
Coaching a student too? The Kaizen Family Partnership brings a full year of student coaching together with household-shared Parent Leadership Immersion in one coordinated plan, from $10,500 CAD or $7,995 USD in its founding first year. Every Kaizen assessment is strength-based and non-clinical, and all programming is overseen by a registered psychologist.
Book a free consultation and we will help you choose the level of support your family needs now.