Your coach will assist you, or your managers,  in:

1. Confidentially clarifying your road map 

2. Creating your personal measures for accountability 

3. Naming & Claiming your strengths: Better understanding your greatest asset – your natural talents 

4. Claiming & Aiming strengths: Exploring personal patterns of past success in order to focus on future success

5. Aiming to make a measurable difference: Navigating strengths effectively in an agile, ever-changing world

6. Not ignoring a weakness but instead considering alternatives

Who is our #1 Coach, Dr. Rachel Monteverdi?  To begin, her strengths are:  Achiever, Maximizer, Strategic, Learner, Input, Positivity, Connectedness, Includer. 

Rachel’s greatest passion is empowering people and providing solutions to help individuals, teams and organizations to achieve their highest potential. 

For 20 years, whether in the corporate world, higher education, government or industry, Rachel has partnered with many in a wide variety of settings to maximize positive impacts. 

As a coach & consultant, her aim is to help you build upon the raw and developed talent that currently shows up to work each day.  Your metrics matter. Your people matter. You matter. 

The research shows strengths-based development drives exceptional performance – you can lead your team to better performance when you better understand strengths.

The first objective is to meet with you and your team to assess knowledge and performance gaps. 

What has worked in the past? Where do you need or want to be? What needs to happen in order to reach an optimal, engaged and productive future? We work candidly and collaboratively with you to discover issues in order to see both short- and long-term success. 

In our never-ending pursuit of finding the optimal combination in talent development, we learned CliftonStrengths, the power of habits, and effective leadership practices provides a unique combination that truly catapults human potential.

To combine your needs with our proven practices, we will simultaneously design sessions in order to ensure we hit the mark (e.g. metrics) through interactive, blended learning sessions.  

Our facilitation and instructional design teams are based primarily in the US. 

Each of us are current or former training and development professionals and coaches working within corporations, state or local government, or higher education, e.g. Duke University. 

We specialize in discovering strengths. Our expertise is also in cultivating effective habits while establishing leadership practices to close gaps and drive high levels of engagement. 

Teamwork is critical: https://www.fivebehaviors.com/nextlevelnextstep

Please view our 'Under the Hood' to see specific details.

Gallup's CliftonStrengths - Increasing Productivity & Profitability

Instead of focusing on what's wrong with people, what would happen if we focused on what's right?  This is the question Dr. Don Clifton asked himself in college more than 40 years ago. What was the result of his work? ​CliftonStrengths - Gallup's transformational tool that helps people discover strengths, strengths-based cultures and how to aim their natural talents to near perfect performance.

Gallup research shows that thriving teams who intentionally use their CliftonStrengths:

Achieve more on a daily basis

Are 6x more engaged in their jobs

Are 6x as likely to do what they do best every day

Have more positive than negative interactions with coworkers

Are substantially more productive in their roles

Treat customers better

Have more positive, creative and innovative moments

Are able to manage potential weaknesses

Are 3x happier and healthier overall

The bottom line: Business performance of thriving teams net a 30% higher profitability, a 40% higher product/service quality, 41% less employee turnover, and are 3X less likely to feel stressed. Gallup research has found that leaders and teams that intentionally develop talents unleash a growth mindset thereby boosting performance, improving resilience and collaboration. Regular or habitual ALIGNMENT conversations build strong teams, leverage diversity of thought, and develop trust and appreciation for one another. Our sessions are designed to take your team to the next level by working on strengths every day for at least 90 days until it becomes more of a habit. Coaching is included.   ; )

Once we have developed our strengths and engaged our team, will we be up for the next challenge?  The Leadership Challenge

More than 35 years ago, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner began rigorously researching the subject of leadership. They found when people are at their personal best as leaders there are five key behaviors that stand out. Since then, The Leadership Challenge® has been known as the original research-based leadership development framework. With millions of respondents from across the globe, there is considerable empirical support for The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and The Leadership Challenge®.

 It is both simple and complex, revealing layers of depth for dedicated practitioners of leadership. The Leadership Challenge® continues to be extensively practiced and highly regarded across the world.  This workshop experience is approximately 20 hours in length and includes coaching and work in between sessions.