As a public-school teacher, counsellor, and school-based administrator, Dr. Mitchell-Pellett has enjoyed creating spaces where people learn to acknowledge their inner gifts in service of changing school and cultural narratives that better empower self and others. She researches and implements approaches that facilitate the horizontal and vertical development of pre-service teachers and leaders, and she is a co-creator and instructor of the Leading with Heart program at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education.