Set-Up-For Success Consulting

About

The name says it all. It’s simple. We set individuals and organizations up for success. Utilizing human-centered, innovative, practical, and situational approaches to executive coaching, leadership development and organizational health. We build the capacity of clients to strategically navigate and thrive within an ever-evolving educational, corporate, financial, social, and political landscape.

Through the services offered, individuals will discover the power within themselves to successfully curate their career, address workplace dilemmas, develop action plans, achieve strategic goals, and prepare for the next level of transformation.

Organizations will discover the power within by investing in its people, instituting its purpose, increasing its productivity, and innovating on the delivery of impactful projects and products. 

Through a co-construction and context embedded model, clients will engage in a professional and organizational health assessment. We quickly provide executive clients and organizations with strategies to effectively address work-related personal, social and political crises, proactive strategic action planning and consultation on scaling organizational inititiaves and efforts.

Just like your physical health requires a doctor; so, does your career, and public and private organizations.

Dr. Mia Settles-Tidwell is that doctor!

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Mission/Values

Our Mission

To reduce risk to individuals and organizations by providing innovative, human-centered, data-informed, and culturally-grounded strategies to solve workplace dilemmas, while improving the health of clients to thrive and organizations to achieve theirstrategic goals.

At Set-Up for Success, we value

Activism- the act of addressing historical and predictable inequities that improves the human condition for all.

Authenticity- showing up as one’s authentic self and presenting in private what we present in the public.

Compassion- offering a heart approach to the work and providing clients with care and understanding.

Empathy- having the ability to imagine oneself in someone else’s situation and providing them a deepertransferable level of care, which is beyond compassion.

Excellence- showing up as our best selves and producing quality products, presentations, speakingengagements, and consultations.

Humility- remaining life-long learners of people, places, situations, dilemmas, belief systems, and ways of being.

Integrity- demonstrating a strong moral compass, being honest and truthful, and doing what you said youwere going to do.

Partnership- creating mutually beneficial situations and outcomes.

Stories- experiencing a person’s sacred history through oral, sign language, and written modes ofcommunication.

Understanding- seeking clarity and comprehension of people, places, situations, and motivations.

Our Approach

We are an asset-based organization that approaches our work through co-curation, collaboration, and comprehensive consultation. 

We believe healthy people create a healthy work environment. We grow people and organizations through education, edification, and empowerment.

Dr. Mia Settles-Tidwell, President/CEO Set-Up-For Success Consulting
Dr. Mia Settles-Tidwell is the founder and President/CEO of Set-Up for Success, a leading consulting organization that has supported hundreds of mid-level and C-suite executive leaders within top tier organizations to to reach their personal, professional and organizational goals. With over 30 years of executive level experience as a Vice President, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Chief of Staff, and Chief Operating Officer in both the UC and CSU higher education systems, as well as the TK-12, Dr. Mia is as an accomplished and nationally sought after executive coach, thought-leader, adjunct professor, speaker, and organizational health consultant. Her unique skill of masterfully coaching individuals and organizations in real-time through workplace dilemmas, building strong and productive teams, and establishing sustainable frameworks for transformative impact is like no other. She helps clients seamlessly embed, apply, and bring to scale innovative and transformational strategies into their daily practice. Dr. Mia (as she is commonly called) is the curator of the OUSD Equity-Based Budgeting System and Strategic Regional Analysis of Schools, UC Berkeley's COVID-19 Recovery Management Equity Guide, and the Believing, Becoming, and Being framework and mural project instituted at Sacramento State. Her imprint on multiple organizations is undeniable and impactful. She is a prolific writer for justice and author of Unscathed: a harm reduction strategy for women of color in the workplace and other articles focused on leadership development, organizational health, personal and professional sustainability, and social justice.
Unscathed Retreat & Executive Coaching Package 2025 APPLICATIONS OPEN FEBRUARY 1, 2025
The Unscathed Retreat & Executive Coaching Package is a coveted and unique experience. - Only eight (8) individuals selected each year. - 4-days and 3 nights in a comfortable and serene 5-acre resort-like setting in Mabelvale, Arkansas. - Private chef - Unscathed Book Talk & Writing Sprint Workships - Personal Action Planning - 1-year of executive coaching with Dr. Mia - Unscathed Pinning Ceremony - Unscathed SWAG and much, much more... DATES COHORT 3- JULY 18-21. 2025 DATES COHORT 4- JULY 25-28, 2025 APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2025 Selected individuals will be notified by May 31, 2025
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Services:

High-Impact Executive Coaching & Leadership Development:

Offers mid to executive level professionals customized and strategic coaching on navigating workplace dilemmas, reducing imposter syndrome, curating their careers, and achieving their personal and organizationalgoals.

Social and Political Crisis Management, Strategic & Action Planning:

Provides consultations and practical support on messaging, anticipating, planning and addressing multiple workplace dilemmas and unexpected crisis.Short-mid- and long term strategic planning and action planning.

Staff Development, Organizational Health Assessments, & Departmental Climate Landscape Analysis:

Offers staff professional and personal development; departmental climate landscape analysis and conducts organizational health assessments, reports with viable recommendations for transformative impact.

Customized & Facilitated Workshops, Retreats, and Conferences:

Engages cross functional and multi-dynamic teams in interactive facilitated workshops, retreats, conferences on topics ranging from inclusive hiring practices, budget prioritization processes, cultural intelligence, building and maximizing team capacity.

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Our Clients Say
"Working alongside Mia has been nothing short of transformative. Her leadership embodies the perfect blend of power and compassion, authenticity, and strategy. In her mentorship, I've learned the value of succession planning, recognizing that true leadership isn't just about personal success but about building a legacy that outlasts any individual. She is not just a leader; she is a beacon of inspiration and change."
Dr. Lien Truong, Senior Advisor on Equity & Belonging/Assistant Dean of Multicultural Affairs, UC Berkeley
"If you are looking to grow as a leader in your field or looking to explore new opportunities that align with your career goals and trajectory, Mia is the first person you should call. Her diverse and vast experience in educational leadership and her legacy of transforming institutions led me to reach out to her when I was considering a dream job opportunity. She helped me identify the skills and assets that I bring to the table which gave me the confidence to pursue a new opportunity. She helped me realize that I was equipped, qualified and prepared to take on new leadership opportunities and helped me develop a strategy for the best possible outcome."
Kei Felton, Special Assistant to the Head Coach, UC Berkeley
"“Dr. Mia Settles Tidwell is a PHENOMENAL executive and career coach with a unique set of skills that blends executive leadership and expertise, fierce intelligence and strategic application, and spiritual empowerment and grounding. A distinct impact of working with her is the emphasis on embracing my identity and leveraging it as my “superpower” that has made me approach opportunities with a newfound confidence and authenticity. In working with her, I’ve made significant strides towards my career goals and I’m affirmed in my ability to turn my professional dreams into a reality."
Dr. Kawami Evans, Assistant Vice Chancellor, UC Davis
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Unscathed: a harm reduction strategy for women of color.

Book Overview

In the most recent news day after day, month after month, it seemed to highlight the struggle, the suffering,and the sabotage of women leaders of color in the workplace. Women of color and women for social justiceleading in the workplace experience a high rate of institutionally sanctioned violence, imposter syndrome, andwork-induced stress.

For centuries, not years, women of color and women for social justice have not been given permission to becared for personally, intellectually, professionally, or spiritually. After reading this book, women will embody arenewed sense of confidence, understand how to navigate various workplace political landmines, and learn thesecret strategy to survive the FIRE, win the FIGHT and be ready for the FLIGHT to higher heights ofpersonal, professional, provisional, and prophetic futures, emerging from workplace dilemmas,UNSCATHED.

Dr. Mia Settles-Tidwell, takes you on a journey through workplace dilemmas that impact women of color and women for social justice in the workplace. With a mixture of storytelling and strategy, this tell-all book pressing theunmute button on the unspoken within the C-Suite.