Rebuild leadership alignment, stop losing six figure talent, and reclaim momentum
Each departure costs your organization an average of 22k- and that number skyrockets with senior staff.
Hidden losses in morale, productivity, and institutional knowledge silently erode your culture.
We make that loss visible and stop the bleed.
What Does "Self Care" Mean in Our Work
At The Self Care Network LLC, we believe sustainable change doesn’t come from surface-level fixes, it starts at the root.
Our S.E.L.F. C.A.R.E framework:
Strategic diagnosis→Leadership clarity→Acceptance→Respect→ Evolution.
It's the foundation of long-term alignment, not band-aid fixes
It’s not just our name- it’s the system we use to help you:
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Uncover and resolve the patterns quietly draining your people
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Realign leadership, operations, and internal trust
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Build a culture strong enough to withstand transition, tension, and turnover
We don’t “train and dash.” We walk alongside you to restore alignment where it matters most-so your people can finally exhale and perform at their best.
WELCOME
We don’t do band-aids. Our approach is diagnostic, systems-based, and designed to expose what’s quietly misaligning your leadership, people, and culture.
Whether you’re losing high-performing staff, navigating fractured leadership, or sensing that something is “off” in your culture, we realign your organization from the inside out using people-centered frameworks built to drive real outcomes.
Every Organization Has a Purple Elephant™
The unspoken tension.
The system failure everyone tiptoes around.
The gap between what your values say — and what your people feel.
When silence becomes survival, performance, morale, and trust all suffer.
We help you name it, dismantle it, and rebuild something far more sustainable.
You Don't Need Another Consultant Giving You Surface Level Advice
You Need a Strategic Partner Who Can Name What's Really Eroding Trust, Draining Retention, and Holding Your Culture Hostage and Help You Fix It at the Root.
Our Signature Services
We offer three core service tracks designed to meet your organization exactly where dysfunction shows up: leadership misfires, fractured trust, low retention, or cultural instability.
Targeted Interventions for the Unspoken Issues Breaking Your Culture
When you're bleeding talent, burning out teams, or dodging hard conversations there’s an Elephant in the room.
We identify the specific leadership, governance, retention, or communication breakdowns costing you momentum, then deliver one of seven targeted interventions to treat the root, not the symptoms.
Diagnosing the Organizational Structures Quietly Reinforcing Dysfunction
If your culture keeps breaking down, the issue isn’t your people, it’s the ecosystem.
We uncover how internal power structures, outdated policies, and unspoken norms are reinforcing dysfunction, then co-design sustainable solutions that restore alignment from the inside out.
Realigning Leadership Teams Before Trust and Talent Collapse
Misalignment doesn’t fix itself. These sessions build shared language, reconnect your people to your values (not just your mission deck), and restore the psychological safety, trust, and structure needed for a high-functioning culture.
Why we Lead with Focusing on People
We don’t do buzzwords. We do systems-level change that actually sticks.
Real change starts with listening not lecturing. We ground our work in empathy, lived experience, and a deep understanding of human behavior inside organizations.
We prioritize connection over compliance, because performance doesn’t improve in environments where people feel unsafe, unseen, or unheard.
And we don’t stop at values. We operationalize them, turning vague commitments into clear action, structure, and measurable transformation.
We Love
Making People
Happy
The Purple Elephant Series 🐘
Uncover the Real Issue Before It Cost You Another High Performer
This is a focused diagnostic experience for leadership teams navigating silent breakdowns: misalignment, trust erosion, unspoken tension, or dysfunction no one wants to name.
We pinpoint where the root problem lives whether it’s in communication, power dynamics, retention, or structure, and lead a targeted intervention that stops the bleed and restores alignment where it matters most.
The Elephant’s Path: Guiding Strategy Through Connection and Clarity
Strategy Rooted in Reality
Before you build any strategy, you need the full picture, not assumptions. The Elephant’s Path™ is our diagnostic discovery track that combines real conversations, cultural assessments, and leadership insight to reveal what’s actually happening beneath the surface.
We blend qualitative data (what your people say) with systemic analysis (what your culture shows) to guide a strategy rooted in truth, not guesswork.
Why It Matters:
Executives can’t solve what they haven’t seen
Staff stop silently suffering and start speaking with trust
Strategy becomes actionable because it’s rooted in lived experience
You stop fixing surface issues and start healing the entire system
The Elephant’s Heart: Rebuilding Internal Infrastructure That Retains, Supports, and Aligns
Fix What's Driving Turnover
High turnover isn’t the problem, it’s the signal. It reveals systems that exhaust people, ignore their needs, or fail to reflect the organization’s stated values.
The Elephant’s Heart™ uncovers the real messages your internal culture, policies, and operations are sending to your people and helps you rebuild infrastructure that supports retention, wellness, and purpose.
What You’ll Build:
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Inclusive, people-centered infrastructure grounded in dignity and equity
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Operational systems that reduce burnout and reinforce clarity
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Policies that live out your values, not just talk about them
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A culture that retains people not out of obligation, but because they want to stay
The Elephant’s Foundation: Strengthening Risk Resilience from the Inside Out
Stabilize and Protect Your Reputation
You can’t scale or sustain trust on unstable ground.
When internal breakdowns go unaddressed-outdated policies, unclear accountability, or cultural blind spots-reputational cracks form that compromise both integrity and public trust.
The Elephant’s Foundation™ helps you assess operational risk, clarify internal accountability, and build protocols that strengthen your organization’s ability to lead with confidence, even under pressure.
What You’ll Build:
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Operational infrastructure that minimizes legal and reputational liability
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Accountability systems that reflect your mission in action
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Clear, values-based protocols that support transparency and ethical leadership
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A culture resilient enough to respond (not spiral) in moments of challenge or public scrutiny
The Elephant’s Signal: Aligning External Messaging with Internal Integrity
Align Internal Culture with External Voice
When your public narrative outpaces your internal reality, trust collapses with employees, stakeholders, and the communities you serve.
The Elephant’s Signal™ ensures your brand voice, community engagement, and public communications reflect the culture you’re actively building not just the one you promote.
Because when values, operations, and messaging are aligned, your reputation becomes one of your greatest strategic assets.
What You’ll Build:
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Storytelling strategies rooted in lived experience and real culture
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Unified messaging across departments, leaders, and public-facing channels
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Strategic partnerships that deepen trust and reflect your organizational values
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Communication rhythms that cultivate long-term credibility, not just PR moments
The Elephant’s Wisdom: Aligning Goverance and Compliance with Culture, Integrity, and Impact
Governance that Reflects Your Values
Governance shouldn’t be a formality- it should be a force for alignment.
When board leadership, bylaws, or compliance systems operate separately from your internal culture, it creates disconnect, oversight gaps, and mission drift.
The Elephant’s Wisdom™ aligns your governance structure with your organizational values- ensuring your board doesn’t just oversee your work, but actively models the integrity, equity, and accountability you expect throughout your culture.
What You’ll Build:
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A governance model built on transparency, trust, and aligned leadership
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A board that reinforces — not contradicts — your organizational culture
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Defined roles, processes, and structures that reduce risk and drift
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Compliance systems that support growth while honoring your mission
The Elephant’s Journey: Tailored Training & Workshops That Equip Teams For Real Transformation
Communication That Builds Belonging
Awareness is a starting point, not the solution.
Sustainable culture change requires ongoing learning, skill-building, and courageous, shared growth. The Elephant’s Journey™ delivers customized training experiences grounded in your organization’s real dynamics, challenges, and goals, not generic content.
These sessions create the conditions for inclusive growth by helping teams shift from awareness to action, from compliance to connection, and from silence to shared accountability.
What You’ll Build:
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A psychologically safe learning environment grounded in respect and curiosity
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Capacity to address bias, burnout, and breakdowns at every level
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Leaders and staff aligned in mindset and behavior
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A workplace where growth is embedded in culture -not checked off a list
The Elephant’s Footprint: Transforming Mental Health from Perk to Policy
Make Mental Health a Structural Priority—Not a Perk
Every organization leaves a footprint- and your people are feeling it.
The Elephant’s Footprint™ is a structural approach to workplace mental health and emotional safety. We help you examine how your operations, leadership behaviors, and cultural norms either protect — or jeopardize — employee well-being.
Because when your people are stuck in survival mode, strategy collapses, innovation stalls, and even the best leaders lose trust.
What You’ll Build:
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A workplace where regulation, recovery, and rest are embedded -not earned
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Systems for addressing emotional harm and supporting psychological recovery
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Leadership capacity to model safety, compassion, and emotional intelligence
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A culture where teams thrive because they feel safe, seen, and valued as whole humans
Not Ready for a Full Engagement?
Start with a Strategic Clarity Session
Committing to a full consulting partnership can feel like a leap- especially when the real issue isn’t fully visible yet.
But you still need answers. You still need direction. You still need relief.
That’s why I created the 90-Minute Naming the Purple Elephant™ Strategy Session — a focused, diagnostic consultation designed to uncover what’s quietly misaligning your people, culture, and leadership systems.
No pressure. No long-term contract. Just real clarity, fast.
Ideal For:
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Executives who sense something’s off but can’t quite pinpoint it
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Teams that need alignment before committing to a larger engagement
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Organizations seeking diagnostic clarity before making deeper investments
You'll Walk Away With:
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Real-time insight into where breakdowns are happening and why
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A customized mini-roadmap for what to address next
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The relief of finally naming the thing no one else has had the language (or courage) to say
Get to Know Us
We partner with leaders and teams who are ready to do the real work, not just check boxes or manage around the problem.
Our best clients are willing to:
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Name what’s been avoided, ignored, or quietly costing them trust
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Realign systems, leadership, and culture from the inside out
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Build a workplace that’s steady, sustainable, and rooted in real values not performative ones
If that sounds like you, we’d be honored to help you start the journey.
Mid-Sized to Large Organizations (100 + Staff)
Growth, leadership transitions, or restructuring have created internal instability. We help you realign leadership, rebuild trust, and prevent turnover before it becomes systemic.
Hospitals, Medical Centers & Health Systems
In high-pressure, high-accountability environments, staff well-being is non-negotiable. We help you build psychologically safe cultures that reduce burnout, improve retention, and protect patient care outcomes.
Mission- Driven Organizations & Nonprofits
Your passion is clear but behind the scenes, burnout, unclear roles, or board friction are creating dysfunction. We help you move from mission chaos to operational clarity, without losing your values.
Corporate Teams & Professional Services
When misalignment affects your people, it shows up in performance, reputation, and retention. We identify the silent stressors disrupting your culture and help you fix them before they become brand or legal risks.
Testimonials
"This work isn’t easy, but it’s essential. Through this process, we created space to listen, learn, and align as a team. The impact has been incredible—not just internally but in how we show up for the families and communities we serve. The framework helped us turn barriers into bridges, and we’re stronger because of it."
Suzannah Holsenbeck, Executive Director, Read to Grow
"Jenora didn’t just give us a workshop she gave us a mirror. For the first time, our leadership team had the language to talk about what was actually going wrong. We walked away with more than a strategy. We walked away with hope."
Director of Operations (Attended Naming The Purple Elephant Capacity Building Series) Hosted by: The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain
"Our organization had passion but no internal alignment. Jenora guided us through the hard conversations and helped us rebuild from the inside out. Her work didn’t just change our systems, it changed how we show up for each other."
Executive Director, Mid-Sized Nonprofit
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