Balance, Boundaries, and Breaks

TM

Evan Whitehead

Father, International Education Thought Leader and Influencer, National Consultant and Trainer, Keynote Speaker, Author, Mindset & Accountability Coach; Leadership Coach, Mindfulness Practitioner, frequently sought after podcast guest and contributor; content creator; and Advocate in the areas of mental health and wellbeing, addiction, recovery, suicide prevention, disability, and childhood sexual and physical trauma.

Evan’s career in education spans over twenty five years in private, public, and state level education. Over the course of his career, Evan has held positions ranging from Special Education Paraprofessional, Crisis Interventionist, Teacher, Dean of Students, Community Outreach Coordinator, Director, Executive Director, and Assistant Superintendent of Schools.

Evan regularly shares his personal journey growing up in situational poverty, having a disability, speech impediment, experiencing childhood trauma, bullying, and an alcoholic-addict parent. After finding success in athletics during high school, Evan earned a Division 1 scholarship but still experienced undiagnosed mental illness, unresolved childhood sexual and physical trauma, failed suicide attempt and self medicating.
Evan Whitehead

As an accomplished career educator, becoming the youngest Assistant Superintendent of Schools in the state at age 34, life became more challenging as Evan began to experience a high level of stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, secondary PTSD, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem, and unresolved guilt and shame. He resorted to unsustainable coping skills and maladaptive behaviors such as substance abuse, “People Pleasing”, “Self-Sabotage”, Victimhood, Overachieving, and Imposter Syndrome to mask his reality.

Eventually, everything led to a mental illness crisis and hospitalization in a treatment program for dual diagnosis (mental illness and substance abuse disorder). What Evan thought was his lowest and darkest point in his life, actually became an opportunity for rest, reflection, healing, healthiness, and personal transformation through the creation of his 3Bs: Balance, Boundaries, and Breaks TM.

3Bs: Balance, Boundaries, and Breaks

Evan’s 3Bs: Balance, Boundaries, and Breaks TM promotes a lifestyle of self-advocacy and is an integrated prevention and intervention based system providing insights, tools, and practices based on his lived experiences, rooted in mindfulness, mindset, accountability, emotional intelligence, bonding, attachment styles, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), faith, spirituality, DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and Neuroscience. All of this lead to self-discovery, healing, self mastery, freedom and personal transformation.

The 3Bs, has been implemented and adopted by celebrities such as multi-platinum artist Saweetie, and shared with Mary J. Blige; Kelly Rowland; Recording Artist and Chef Kelis; Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms; and has been highlighted in mainstream media outlets such as People Magazine, Essence Magazine, Vibe Magazine and The Source Magazine. Evan was named in the Top 50 Culture Builders of 2020 by Award Winning Culture and was also featured as a Champion of Equity in the March/April 2021 issue of “Equity and Access Journal.

Evan is a contributing author of three books: 100 No Nonsense Things That All Teachers Should Stop Doing, Evan’s chapter “Stop Playing The Role of The Martyr” includes his personal experiences as an educator that serves as a cautionary tale about prioritizing our own mental health, and wellbeing. “Because of a Teacher: Stories of the Past to Inspire a Future Generation” curated by George Couros, includes Evan’s learned lessons, written to first year teachers, about overcoming his mental health challenges, educator self-care, wellbeing, and personal transformation. In “True Story: Lessons That One Kid Taught Us” curated by Rachelle Dene Poth, Evan shares an experience with a student he had as a high school dean, that impacted his career as an educator and influenced the students life as well.

Today, Evan is clean, sober, living in sustainable recovery, stable mental illness, and is no longer just surviving, but thriving!

Our Services

  • Organization Training & Professional Development
    New Administrator Mentoring
    Strategic Planning
    Continuous Improvement
    Education Leadership
    Mindset and Accountability
    Building a Wellness-Centered Climate and Culture
    Special Education
    Section 504
    Multi-Tiered System of Supports
    Early Childhood Education
    Bilingual/Multilingual & English Learner Education
    Federal Grants and Programs
    Family and Community Engagement
    Developing Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations
    Burnout Prevention
    Recovery Training for Individuals and Staff

  • Executive Leadership
    Mindset and Accountability
    Strategic Planning
    Continuous Improvement
    Board-Executive Relationships
    Building a Wellness-Centered Culture and Climate

  • Topics:
    Wellness
    Hope
    Mindset
    Recovery
    Burnout Prevention

  • Navigating the Public School System
    Parental Rights and the IEP Process
    Guiding Your Student Athlete from Rec League to College Athletics
    Burnout Prevention
    Mindset and Accountability

  • Burnout Prevention
    Recovery
    Wellness
    Mindset and Accountability
    Resume Coaching & AI-Proofing

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