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Our Community Hub connects you with a diverse network of skilled early childhood consultants who specialize in empowering programs, professionals, and organizations. Each consultant offers expertise tailored to support your unique goals, whether it’s program improvement, staff development, strategic planning, or advancing equity and inclusion.
Start your journey with Janet Humphryes, founder of Coaching Potentials, whose transformative coaching and consulting services inspire innovation and growth. Explore the full list of trusted consultants to find the right partner for your needs, and take the next step toward building stronger, more impactful early childhood systems.
The following businesses/individuals are included in the Coaching Potentials Community Hub as providers of services for the early childhood profession. Coaching Potentials does screen who is listed and lists them because they have proven to us their qualifications, though does not endorse, recommend, or assume responsibility for the work of any consultant listed. Anyone using the consultant list assumes full responsibility for confirming the consultant’s professional qualifications, performance history, and references to ensure the consultant can fulfill the terms of any professional services contract entered into with them.
Janet Humphryes
Janet Humphryes, founder of Coaching Potentials, offers a range of consultant services. For Leadership her expertise is in developing peer-coaching/coaching systems in organizations, and she offers herself as a ‘thinking partner/coach”. For education staff Janet excels in guidance strategies/executive function skills/trauma-informed practices; B-5 child development; and cognitively enriched environments.
Nicole Simpkins
Nicole Simpkins is currently the Executive Support for Coaching Potentials and a consultant with over 30 years of experience in the EC profession. Her most recent focus has been on coaching and consulting with staff and program management to improve the quality provided to Infant, Toddler, and Preschool-aged children and their families. Nicole is a certified Montessori teacher and Director with additional experience in Reggio Emilia, Waldorf, Creative Curriculum®, Tools of the Mind, and Colorado early learning and development guidelines and assessment tools. Her consultative expertise is in supporting classroom coaching partnerships and program leadership teams, as well as providing overall EC technical assistance to programs inclusive of navigating all aspects of the Colorado Shines rating process.
Mark Heinert
Mark Heinert recently retired from the Region 8 Office of Head Start where he served as a Program Specialist for 17 years supporting over 100 Head Start/Early Head Start (HS/EHS) grant recipients’ in improving quality and regulation compliance. His expertise is in fiscal management, Board/Policy Council governance, program management, and offering effective client strategies, technical assistance, and solutions to these areas of concern, including preparation for Head Start Monitoring reviews. Mark got his Head Start career started as the CFO and then Executive Director of a Head Start program in central Montana. He later worked for the Region 8 Training and Technical Assistance Network as a Fiscal, Management & Governance expert. He has participated in/led numerous Federal monitoring reviews across the regions including many tribal programs. Mark is a Certified Public Accountant with a BA in Business Management and a master’s in accounting from Montana State University/Billings.
Lisa Blue
Lisa Blue offers special education/disability services. With thirty-two years of personal experience as a special needs mother, along with academic and professional experience, she offers her knowledge of the world of special needs through both the brain and the heart. Lisa knows the laws, the language and the needs of a program. She has expertise in training on behaviors and autism, special education, IEPs, and life with special needs. Lisa has experience as a presenter/trainer speaking on the realities of life with special needs, autism, intellectual disabilities, disabilities in general, IEPs, PBIS, and Trauma. She has presented at national and NM conferences. Lisa was a member of the IEP review committee to update the IEP forms and the manual for NM state. She has taught nursing students at Santa Fe Community College about autism, ID and schizophrenia. She was a member of the NM IDEA State Advisory Panel for 8 years, and co-chair of the Advisory Committee on Quality Supports for Individuals with Intellectual and Development Disabilities, working with the Department of Health to advise on issues surrounding the Development Disabilities Waiver, Mi Via Waiver, and the Medically Fragile Waiver. Lisa has done training for first year special education teachers monthly, and training and coaching for school districts special education departments per Public Education Department (PED) audits, as well as site visits for NM PED. Lisa has a master’s degree in special education, a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and is a dissertation away from a Ph.D. in special education. She did a fellowship, NM LEND Fellow, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities program, as well as Partners in Policymaking, an intensive program with the mission to build future advocates and leaders for New Mexico in disabilities. Lisa has served the last 7 years with a Tribal Head Start/Early Head Start program as a Special Education Consultant and Disability Coordinator.
Cameron Fall
Cameron Fall, founder of Watercolor Insights, empowers early childhood professionals, programs, and organizations through relationship-focused consultation, coaching, and training. With over seven years in Colorado’s early childhood profession, his journey includes impactful roles at Warren Village and the Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance (ECCLA), where he manages statewide initiatives like scholarships for aspiring coaches and the facilitation of the Colorado Coaching Consortium. He brings expertise in consultation and facilitation, administration and governance, coaching and development, training and professional development, and design and creative services, with a commitment to equity and innovation. As Board Treasurer and Governance Chair for COAEYC, he contributes to strategic oversight and advancing justice within our profession. His educational foundation includes degrees in Early Childhood Education and Education & Human Development, along with specialized early childhood credentials. At Watercolor Insights, he combines his experience with a creative, strengths-based approach to foster growth and transformative impact. Inspired by nature, art, and the LGBTQ+ community, he strives to make early childhood education as vibrant as a watercolor masterpiece.
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