About

Here’s more info about my strengths, my leadership style, and some of my favorite things!

My Top 5 Clifton Strengths

Learner. Great desire to learn and continuously improve. Motivated by process of learning.

Intellection. Introspective. Enjoy intellectual discussions.

Input. Need to collect and archive, whether that’s info, ideas, artifacts, or relationships.

Focus. Cab take a direction, follow through, and stay on track. Prioritize first, then act.

Achiever. Work hard and possess a great deal of stamina. Immsense satisfaction in being busy and productive.

More info:

• Read more about Gallup CliftonStrengths

• Check out a free alternative called HIGH5

• Read this strengths articles from the US Chamber of Commerce on how strengths are applied in industry

• Learn how strengths assessment is rooted in positive psychology

• Explore the Big 5, or OCEAN, another form of personality assessment useful for industry and backed by personality psychology

My Leadership Style

After a collective 10 years spent managing neuroscience and psychology labs in academia, an industry-university research center, and UX Research teams for Verizon Connect, I have identified my leadership style as a mix of servant leadership and transformational leadership.

The positions I have held to date have often called upon my servant leadership skills. Servant leadership is an approach defined by putting the needs of others, i.e., the team, above oneself. I start by crafting spaces for the team to voice their needs, however basic or undefined. Through that process, we build strong working relationships, and we collaborate on finding resources and assigning action items to achieve collective success. This approach takes lots of listening, intention, and creative strategy, but it has always resulted in outcomes that align individual and business goals. Check out my track record of outstanding and empathetic leadership!

As I gain more experience and lead larger teams, I recognize strong elements of transformational leadership. The hallmark of transformational leadership is a focus on the future. Transformational leaders have a clear future vision, built on the foundation of what the team has already shared and achieved, while looking forward to what the team has the potential to become and do. When a team feels seen and cared for, it is easy to motivate them to explore endlessly, especially when a leader has taken their intrinsic motivations into consideration of the very fabric of the team. I am now in a place where I seek to work in this space more — to help define long-term strategies that lead to team evolution and maturity, which, in turn, helps organizations and communities grow and thrive.

Learn more about leadership styles!

• IMD’s 6 Most Common Leadership Styles

• More on servant leadership theory

• More on transformational leadership theory

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