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Burnout-proof
your brilliance.

Executive coaching and leadership development for high-achieving leaders who want to perform at the
top of their craft without paying for it in exhaustion. Led by Dr. Erin Wilson.

CliftonStrengths® Certified Coach and creator of the NAP Framework™.

Understand your leadership capacity. Get your personalized results.

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Trusted by universities, Fortune 500 partners, nonprofit boards, and faith-based leadership communities.

WHY DESIGN IDEAL CONSULTING

Most leadership programs teach you how to do more.
We help you lead better.

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The leaders we work with are already accomplished. They have earned the title, built the team, and carried the weight. What they are looking for now is a sharper way to lead, one that protects their energy, sharpens their thinking, and builds a culture their people actually want to stay in.

That is the work we do.

We coach leaders, train teams, and design experiences grounded in three principles: lead from your strengths, build trust through relationship intelligence, and protect your performance through strategic rest.

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OUR METHODOLOGY

A leadership framework built for sustainable excellence.

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STRENGTHS-BASED

DEVELOPMENT

We coach leaders using the Clifton Strengths assessment to turn natural talents into deliberate leadership advantages. You stop trying to fix what isn't broken and start leading from where you arealready gifted.

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RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE

Great leadership is relational before it is operational. We help leaders sharpen the way they read people, build trust, manage conflict, and elevate the people they lead.

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STRATEGIC REST IN LEADERSHIP

Rest is not the opposite of leadership. It is the architecture that sustains it. Through the NAP Framework™ (Nurture, Assess, Prioritize), we help leaders protect their capacity so their performance lasts.

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MEET DR. ERIN C. WILSON

Strategy with substance.
Coaching with care.

Dr. Erin C. Wilson is a Clifton Strengths Certified Executive Coach, leadership consultant, keynote speaker, and co-author of Strategic Rest in Leadership: The NAP Framework™. With a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and more than a decade of experience developing leaders across higher education, corporate, nonprofit, and faith-based environments, Dr. Wilson partners with professionals who want their leadership to be both excellent and sustainable. 

Her work brings together two truths the leadership industry often separates: high performance is a discipline, and so is rest. Through executive coaching, organizational consulting, keynotes, and the NAP Framework™, she helps leaders, teams, and emerging professionals lead from clarity instead of depletion.

SERVICES

Built for the way real leaders work.

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1:1 EXECUTIVE COACHING

Private Clifton Strengths-based coaching for senior leaders, executives, and women navigating significant career transitions or expanded scope of leadership.

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TEAM AND ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT

Customized leadership training, team retreats, and strengths-based workshops designed for the unique culture and goals of your organization.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Engaging, research-backed keynotes on strengths-based leadership, strategic rest, and what it actually takes to lead well in today's workplace.

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FREE TOOL

Find out where your
leadership is leaking energy.

The NAP Self-Assessment is a 10-minute diagnostic built on NAP Framework™. You will learn which of three leadership profiles you currently lead from, where your strategic rest is breaking down, and what to shift first.

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10 MINUTES

Quick and powerful self-assessment

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CLARITY

See your patterns and blindspots

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ACTION

Get clear next steps to lead with more energy and ease.

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PROFILE + ENERGY DRAIN MAP

$65

Your results do not simply reveal whether you are depleted. They reveal how depletion is showing up in your leadership experience.

  • Everything in the NAP Profile Report

  • Top 2 leadership energy drain pathways identified

  • Personalized leadership pattern insights

  • NAP Framework™ recommendations

  • Leadership impact analysis

  • Instant PDF delivery

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$45

Most leadership assessments provide a score. This experience goes deeper.​

  • Complete NAP Framework™ overview

  • Personalized NAP domain scores

  • Leadership profile identification

  • Personalized leadership insights

  • Instant PDF delivery

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FULL STRATEGIC REST BUNDLE

$95

You have insight. Now it is time for intentional action.​

  • Includes NAP Profile Report and Energy Drain Map

  • Personalized 30-Day Strategic Rest Plan

  • Weekly focus areas tailored to your results

  • Daily practices based on your leadership patterns

  • Personalized recovery and leadership strategies

  • Instant PDF delivery

What leaders are saying.

Working with Dr. Wilson was incredibly productive and clarifying. Her coaching helped me sharpen my focus on what truly matters, center my own needs in service of leading others effectively, and better understand my evolving leadership journey."

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Kenneth Varner, PhD
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Education, UNLV

Dr. Erin Wilson has such a powerful and strategic way of getting people to drop their guard and be themselves. She brings energy, light, wisdom, and education to every session."

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Roberto Aldana
Vice President of Mission Delivery,

Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains

This was excellent. I could not pick a best takeaway because every part of the experience was impactfuland thought provoking. I would not hesitate to recommend Erin."

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Mary-Margaret LemonsPresident, Fort Worth Housing Solution

Power Nap Episodes

Power Nap Episodes

THE POWER NAP LIVE

Join the leaders we coach.

Subscribe to Power Nap Live, Dr. Erin's weekly live on strengths-based leadership, strategic rest, and the practical art of leading well.

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NOW AVAILABLE

Rethink leadership through the power of Strategic Rest.

Strategic Rest in Leadership introduces the NAP Framework™ and offers a practical, research-grounded approach to building a leadership life that lasts. Co-authored by Dr. Erin C. Wilson and Dr. Kellie M. Dixon.

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Your leadership
deserves a strategy of its own.

Whether you are leading a team, growing into the next title, or rebuilding your capacity after a season ofoverload, the next conversation is where the shift begins.

© 2026 by Design Ideal Consulting

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