What You Can Expect
CliftonStrengths Coaching & Consulting
Most people spend their careers working around their weaknesses. CliftonStrengths coaching flips that entirely.
Gallup's decades of research are unambiguous: people who use their strengths every day are more engaged, more productive, and more likely to thrive at work and beyond. The CliftonStrengths assessment reveals your unique rank order of 34 talent themes, the natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that make you distinctly you. No two profiles are alike. That's the point.
Here's how we work together:
Step 1: Discover Your Talent DNA
We start with your CliftonStrengths results — not as a personality label, but as a living map of your natural excellence. You'll gain a rich, nuanced understanding of each of your 34 themes and what it means that you lead with the ones you do. This isn't a report debrief. It's the beginning of a real conversation about who you are at your best.
Step 2: See How Your Talents Are Operating Right Now
Talents don't show up in a vacuum. We'll look at how your dominant themes are already influencing your decisions, your leadership style, your relationships, and the patterns — productive and otherwise — playing out in your work and life. This step is often where the lightbulb moments happen.
Step 3: Aim Your Strengths at What Matters
This is where insight becomes strategy. A talent only becomes a strength when it's applied with intention and skill. Together, we'll build a clear plan for directing your most powerful themes toward your goals — whether that's leading a high-performing team, navigating a career transition, accelerating your impact, or simply doing more of the work that energizes you and less of what drains you.
What you'll walk away with:
A deep understanding of your unique strengths profile, a practical strategy for leading from your strengths every day, and the kind of clarity that makes hard decisions feel less hard. You'll know what you bring to every room you walk into and how to use it.
This isn't generic professional development. It's a leadership roadmap built entirely around you.
PEOPLE WHO USE THEIR STRENGTHS ARE:
✓ 3x more likely to report an excellent quality of life
✓ 6x more likely to be engaged
✓ 7%-23% higher engagement
✓ 8%-18% greater performance at work
What to Expect When You Work With Alissa
Working with a coach or consultant is an investment — in your leadership, your team, and your future. Here's what that investment actually looks like when we work together.
You'll get someone who has done the work.
I'm not a coach who only coaches. I've led a county government behavioral health department through a complete cultural and compliance transformation. I've grown a multi-site nonprofit by 30% in under five years. I've consulted on large-scale organizational change for some of the most complex institutions in the country. I've taught leadership at USC and UC Davis. I bring 35+ years of real leadership experience into every conversation — not theory, not frameworks alone, but hard-won perspective from having sat exactly where you're sitting.
When I push you, I know what I'm pushing you toward.
You'll get clarity, not just inspiration.
A lot of coaching feels good in the room and fades by Friday. That's not what we're doing here. Every engagement is built around your specific goals, your real challenges, and the measurable outcomes you want to achieve. Whether we're working one-on-one, with your leadership team, or designing a strategic direction for your organization, you'll leave every session knowing exactly what to do next — and why.
You'll be challenged, warmly.
I'll ask the questions you've been avoiding. I'll name the patterns you haven't wanted to look at. I'll hold you to the standard you set for yourself — and remind you of it when you forget. This is a space built on deep trust, genuine care, and complete honesty. Expect to be stretched. Expect to feel supported while it's happening.
You'll have a thought partner who sees the whole board.
My top CliftonStrengths themes are Strategic, Maximizer, Futuristic, and Activator — which means I naturally see patterns before they become problems, identify the path forward when options feel overwhelming, envision what's possible beyond the current moment, and push toward action rather than endless analysis. You'll never leave a session stuck.
Here's what you can expect in our work together:
A leader who meets you exactly where you are and moves you forward from there
Sharp strategic thinking applied to your specific situation — not generic advice
Deep expertise in CliftonStrengths, change management, organizational culture, and leadership development
Creative, energizing sessions that make the hard work feel worthwhile
Genuine celebration of your wins — and honest accountability when you need it
A partnership built on trust, confidentiality, and your success
The bottom line:
You already have what it takes. My job is to help you see it clearly, use it intentionally, and lead in a way that creates lasting results — for you, your team, and the people who count on you both.