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Your Team Has Strengths.
Let's Find Them.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach credential badge — Gabriela Holt

Strengths-based coaching for organizations that are done losing great people.

High turnover. Burnout. Teams that are technically skilled but emotionally disconnected. These aren't character flaws — they're alignment problems. And they're solvable.

As a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach and ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with nearly 20 years of experience, I partner with organizations to identify each person's natural zone of genius, close communication gaps, and build cultures where people genuinely want to stay.

When people lead from their strengths, everything changes — for them, and for your bottom line.

This is for you if your organization is experiencing:

✓ High voluntary turnover among top performers
✓ Burnout spreading through management
✓ Teams that struggle to communicate across roles
✓ Leaders who avoid hard conversations
✓ L&D investments that don't stick past the workshop
✓ Confidence gaps in diverse or rising leaders

Why Strengths-Based Coaching Works

  • 1.5x reduction in turnover among strengths-aware teams (Gallup)

  • $123M+ potential annual savings from reduced turnover costs

  • 20 years of counseling & coaching experience behind every engagement

PHASE 1 · 0-6 months

Leading Self

Individual awareness & executive alignment

Leaders discover their top CliftonStrengths and learn how to lead from their natural zone of genius — not their job description.

1.5x

Reduction in turnover among strengths-aware teams (Gallup)

PHASE 2 · 6-18 months

Leading Teams 

Strengths-based team dynamics

 

Teams map their collective strengths, close communication gaps, and build the trust that makes collaboration actually work.

$123M+

Potential annual savings from reduced turnover costs

PHASE 3 · 18-36 months

Leading Organizations

Culture-level strengths integration

Managers are equipped to coach their own teams, creating a self-sustaining strengths-first culture that outlasts any single engagement.

20 yrs

Of counseling & coaching experience behind every engagement

How It Works

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What's Included In Each Phase

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Phase 1

Leading Self includes:

Individual awareness & executive alignment CliftonStrengths assessment — you choose the depth: Top 5 — identifies your five most dominant strengths themes Top 34 — your full strengths profile ranked from strongest to least developed Top 34 for Leaders — the full profile plus leadership-specific insights on how your strengths show up when managing, delegating, and developing others Your personalized report includes: Your top five CliftonStrengths themes (or all 34, depending on your assessment level) A guide for using the report today and in the future How your strengths are unique to you How your top five strengths combine to make you unique Action items you can implement immediately A practical outline to use your most dominant strengths A guide to having conversations about your strengths with others Individual coaching sessions — 60-minute 1:1 or small-group sessions (cohorts of 3-5 for peer learning). This is where the report comes alive. We don't just review your results — we map how your strengths are showing up right now in your role, where they're being underused, and what happens when you're leading from your stress zone instead of your genius zone. Executive alignment workshop (half-day) — your leadership team maps their collective strengths and identifies communication blind spots before they become friction points. You'll see why some partnerships feel effortless and others require constant translation. Strengths action plan — concrete next steps for each leader: what to lean into, what to delegate, and what's draining you that doesn't need to be. This isn't a generic "use your strengths more" list. It's a roadmap tied to your actual role, your actual team, and the actual challenges you're facing right now. Deliverable: Every leader walks away knowing their zone of genius and how to lead from it instead of their job description. They stop trying to be good at everything and start building teams around their natural gifts.

Phase 2

Leading Teams includes:

Strengths-based team dynamics Team strengths mapping session (full-day workshop) — the entire team charts their collective strengths, gaps, and overlaps. You'll see why some tasks feel like a slog and others flow. Why certain people always end up doing the same work. Why delegation feels harder than just doing it yourself. Communication gap analysis— we identify where misalignment shows up (delegation, feedback, conflict) and build a shared language so "I need this by Friday" doesn't mean six different things to six different people. A team with an Achiever, a Strategic, and a Relator will define "urgent" three completely different ways. We make those differences visible so you can work with them instead of around them. Trust-building sessions — not trust falls or icebreakers. Real work on psychological safety, accountability, and what to do when someone on the team isn't pulling their weight. We address the tension that's already in the room, not the sanitized version you'd say in front of HR. Manager training on strengths-based delegation (half-day workshop) — your managers learn how to assign work based on what energizes people, not just who's available. Delegation isn't about dumping tasks — it's about matching the right work to the right strengths so it actually gets done well, without resentment. Team playbook — a living document that captures how this team communicates, makes decisions, handles conflict, and celebrates wins. New hires onboard into the culture instead of guessing at it. Managers stop reinventing the wheel every time someone joins or leaves. Premium Add-Ons for Phase 2: *Team Strengths Grid* — A visual map of your team's collective talent distribution across all 34 CliftonStrengths themes. This isn't just a pretty chart. It's a diagnostic tool that shows you: - Where your team is talent-rich (and where you're leaning too hard on the same people) - Which domains are underrepresented (and why certain work always feels like a struggle) - Where powerful partnerships already exist (and where friction is actually a strengths collision, not a personality problem) The grid helps teams focus on what they "have", not what they don't. It answers questions like: "Why does this team crush execution but struggle with vision?" or "Why do we keep hiring for culture fit and still have turnover?" Because you're not seeing the strengths architecture underneath the behavior. *Individual Wants & Needs Cards* — A one-page profile for each team member that translates their Top 5 CliftonStrengths into actionable language for managers and peers: - What I Bring: The specific value this person's strengths add to the team (not generic theme descriptions — what this person does because of their unique strengths combination) - What I Need: The work conditions, communication style, and support that helps this person thrive (so managers stop guessing and peers stop misinterpreting) These cards become the team's shared reference guide. New managers inherit them when someone gets promoted. Peers use them to figure out how to collaborate without friction. And the person themselves finally has language for what they've always known but couldn't articulate: "I'm not being difficult — I just need clarity before I can move forward." When to add these tools: Grid: Teams that are struggling with uneven workload distribution, unclear roles, or constant firefighting instead of strategic work. Wants & Needs: Teams with high turnover, new managers stepping into leadership, or cross-functional teams that don't have shared context. Pricing available during your exploratory call based on team size and complexity. Deliverable: Teams that actually collaborate instead of coexist. Communication gaps close. Trust builds. People stop leaving because they finally feel like they're working with their strengths instead of fighting against them.

Phase 3

Leading Organizations includes:

Culture-level strengths integration Manager-as-coach training — we train your managers to have strengths-based coaching conversations with their own teams. They learn how to spot when someone is burned out because they're working outside their strengths. How to delegate in a way that actually sticks. How to have development conversations that don't sound like a performance review. This is how the work outlasts the engagement — your managers become the internal experts, and the culture shifts from "fix your weaknesses" to "lead from your strengths." We help you redesign reviews, 1:1 templates, and promotion criteria so they reward people for playing to their natural gifts, not for trying to be well-rounded at everything. Strengths language stops being something you use in the workshop and starts being how you evaluate, promote, and develop talent. Culture audit & recommendations — we assess where strengths language is sticking and where it's performative. You get a roadmap for what to double down on (the teams and managers who are actually using it) and what to stop doing (the posters in the breakroom that no one reads). Culture isn't what you say in the town hall. It's what actually happens in a Tuesday afternoon meeting when the deadline moved up and someone's out sick. Sustainability plan — a 12-month post-engagement plan so strengths-based leadership becomes how you operate, not a program that ended when I left. This includes checkpoints, recommended refreshers, and when to bring in external support again (because culture work is never "done" — it just becomes internal). Access to ongoing resources — your team gets a library of strengths-based templates, scripts, and tools for hiring (how to interview for strengths fit, not just skills), onboarding (so new hires know their strengths from day one), feedback (how to give it in a way that lands), and conflict resolution (because most workplace conflict is actually a strengths collision, not a personality problem). Deliverable: A self-sustaining strengths-first culture. Your managers can coach their teams. Your systems reinforce strengths instead of fighting them. You stop losing great people because they finally have a manager who sees what they're naturally good at — and builds their role around it.

Investment

Engagements are customized based on team size, phase scope, and organizational goals.

Phase 1 (Leading Self) typically starts at $15,000 for a cohort of 10-15 leaders.

Multi-phase partnerships are priced as a single engagement with milestone billing.

We also offer single-day workshops and team strengths assessments for organizations exploring strengths-based work before committing to a full engagement. Pricing starts at $5,000.

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Let's talk about what's happening in your organization and whether a strengths-based approach is the right move.

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