Hi there, I’m Heather!
If it’s about helping you become a successful manager, who builds a team culture where everyone thrives, then I’m your person!
I believe that each manager has the potential to create the culture they want to see in their career and their team. But too often they get stuck feeling like they can’t. I want to change that.
Managers have incredible influence over their team’s experience, engagement, and performance. So often we don’t take the time to better understand ourselves as leaders or get to know our team. We jump right into the work and then realize later how valuable it would have been to know why we do what we do.
I believe that one of the most valuable things you can do as a manager is to invest in yourself and your team.
As a team consultant and new manager mentor, I’m on a mission to help managers gain clarity, recognize their inner strengths, and build confidence so they can take action and start leading in an authentic and effective way.
Using a strengths-based approach, I will help you discover and use your natural strengths to enhance your potential and equip you with the strategies to build an engaged team driven by success and excellence.
It brings me joy to help you create the culture you want to see in your team and become the type of manager you aspire to be.
A Strengths-Based Approach
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A strengths-based approach focuses on maximizing what’s great about people and their unique talents versus their deficits. It’s about helping people identify the distinctive contributions they make to a team. It’s about intentional development of these talents to better understand themselves, each other, and how they can best apply these tools in their professional and personal lives. As a manager, it’s also about how to understand the talents and perspective you bring to your leadership role and how you can best tailor your approach to the talents of your team.
To get started, individuals complete the CliftonStrengths assessment. The assessment measures your talents - your natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving - and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes. Then the fun begins! By focusing on the strongest CliftonStrengths themes of talent, individuals are able to better articulate why they do what they do, enhance their own self-awareness, better manage potential weaknesses, and understand what makes them stand out.
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Using a strengths-based approach in your management style and with your team not only promotes a more positive work environment but also helps you get the best out of each of your team members. It allows team members to see how they fit in the team. It provides a common language for team members to best understand each other and how we approach everyday interactions like decision making, communication, conflict, and project planning. In fact, according to Gallup, people who use their strengths every day are three times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life, six times more likely to be engaged at work, 8% more productive, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs. So it’s worth it!
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As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, I use the lens of a strengths-based approach in all of my programs. In New Manager Essentials we will focus on understanding the talents and strengths you bring to your role as a leader and how this influences your approach with your team.
In Discover Your Team Talents, I introduce your team to the strengths-based approach and then curate a selection of activities that focus on their own self-awareness, understanding of each other’s talents, and how everyone’s talents impact the team as a whole.
In the Strengths-Based Team Bundle we go all in! Together we build a long-term plan to infuse a strengths-based culture with your team. Through a variety of mediums including workshops, team activities, conversation starters, and more - we develop a program that keeps growing the conversation, learning, and development of your team.
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While I began my work with CliftonStrengths over 16 years ago, becoming a certified coach allowed me to deepen my understanding, appreciation, and practice of this philosophy. For you, this means I will not only share my expertise with you and your team, but I bring depth in designing practical applications to a strengths-based practice for you and your team.
My Top 5 Themes of Talent:
Positivity, Developer, Includer, Woo, Maximizer
What to expect when working with me.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
So much of my work centers on helping you better understand yourself, your team, and how to best work with each other. It would also be valuable for you to understand my style and how we would work together.
Positivity!
I am naturally a positive person. I will bring not only a positive outlook on our work together but also the ability to see the potential in you and your team.
A tailored approach to better suit your needs.
Your success becomes my mission. I will take time to learn about you and your goals so I can tailor my approach to your needs for the best outcomes possible.
A seamless experience.
I want to maximize our time together and ensure the experience is as seamless as possible. Whether it’s preparing your team for an upcoming session or getting you ready to complete the New Manager Essentials course, I will ensure you have the details you need every step of the way.
It brings me joy to see how my work is impacting people’s lives, not only professionally but also personally. When it comes to better knowing yourself as a manager or leader, it surely resonates with you as a whole individual and the benefits of unleashing your potential go beyond your professional life. I’m here to help you get there.
More about me…
I love going on adventures with my husband, Craig, and our two girls. We are particularly good at road trips. Some of my favorites have been our journeys on the Pacific Coast Highway and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Coffee vs. tea…always tea for me. It brings me joy, it helps me start my day, I love it hot or iced, and I just enjoy the tradition and style of tea. My go-to’s are definitely Jasmine and Earl Grey with local honey.
When I’m not managing my own team, being mom and wife, or consulting groups…I’m an aerialist. I started on the trapeze years ago, but now I love the creativity and challenge of working with silks. It’s like my own version of running away with the circus.
I believe in celebrating - the small things and the big things. Living in a place like New Orleans, we celebrate everything! And I love to take advantage of all of it…particularly if there are costumes involved.
