Resonance Through Strengths

CliftonStrengths coaching for technical, commercial, and global teams.

Two sound waves can meet with a striking result. When waves of equal amplitude and the same frequency arrive with their peaks aligned, the sound intensity at that location can reach four times that of either wave alone. This is constructive interference. The relationship between the waves shapes their combined effect.

That principle offers an analogy for CliftonStrengths coaching: helping people work together in ways that strengthen what each can contribute. A team may contain considerable talent, yet benefit little from the connections among those talents. Coaching helps participants recognize those connections and put them to use.

Gallant uses organizational resonance to describe this productive relationship—people understanding, responding to, and building on one another's strengths. CliftonStrengths provides a framework for developing it, beginning with individual talents and extending into how colleagues communicate, make decisions, and share responsibility.

Understanding Individual Strengths

Gallant Principal Brandy Brazell Obvintseva brings 20 years of CliftonStrengths training experience and more than a decade as a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach. Most of Gallant's strengths engagements serve industrial technology organizations, including engineering and science teams, leaders, and technical professionals working in high-touch consultative sales.

These environments give strengths development a practical context. An engineer moving into sales must connect technical expertise with customer understanding. A scientist leading a team must make room for other people's approaches. Colleagues working across functions need to understand how their contributions fit together.

Gallup's CliftonStrengths assessment identifies 34 talent themes across four domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking. Coaching helps participants recognize how those talents show up in their work and develop them through intentional application.

Name it. Claim it. Aim it. Identify the talent, understand its expression, and direct it toward a meaningful goal.

For a technical sales professional, that might mean examining how a drive to solve problems supports customer conversations—and when more exploration is needed before offering a recommendation. Coaching connects self-awareness to the role's responsibilities.

Gallant also incorporates CliftonStrengths into its own employee onboarding, inviting new team members to identify their talents and discuss how those strengths relate to their responsibilities, professional development, and ways of working with colleagues. Understanding those contributions early helps establish a foundation for more intentional collaboration.

Identify individual talents. Connect complementary strengths. Apply them to shared goals.

When Strengths Connect

Expand the lens to a team of six or sixty. One person generates possibilities. Another organizes the work. Someone builds relationships, while another focuses on details the group has overlooked.

Working well together requires understanding where these approaches complement one another and where differences need to be managed proactively. A request for more evidence may protect the quality of a decision. An urge to move forward may help maintain momentum. Discussing those contributions helps colleagues agree on what the situation requires and how each can contribute.

That awareness extends into client relationships. Understanding how stakeholders prefer to communicate, evaluate recommendations, and make decisions helps teams establish more productive working relationships. Where appropriate, voluntary strengths-based discovery offers another way to recognize complementary approaches before substantial work begins.

Gallant's workshops bring together professionals across technical disciplines, geographic regions, and organizational cultures, adding new dimensions to how strengths are understood and applied. People explore how their strengths are expressed, how colleagues interpret them, and what helps them collaborate across differences.

CliftonStrengths is supported by Gallup's international assessment and translation research, providing a common framework for teams working across languages and cultures. Gallant's workshops give that framework practical meaning through participants' experiences, relationships, and shared objectives.

Expanding the Lens

As strengths development extends across an organization, it informs how managers support people, how departments coordinate, and how teams draw on expertise beyond their immediate group.

Gallant shapes each engagement around those needs. Preparation begins with assessments, individual and team profiles, and the group's objectives. Workshops explore complementary strengths, potential blind spots, communication, and how to apply learning to shared work.

Two engagements illustrate the approach.

ChampionX (Now Part of SLB) | Leadership Retreat, April 2023

Gallant supported a three-day ChampionX leadership retreat at Margaritaville Lake Resort in Conroe, Texas. ChampionX subsequently became part of SLB in July 2025.

The retreat brought business performance, annual goals, and organizational culture into the same conversation. Gallant coordinated CliftonStrengths and DRiV leadership assessments, organized results for a 15-person preparation cohort, and developed individual summaries and a team strengths overview, including a strengths cascade.

The work supported the retreat's objective: helping leaders understand the group's talents, motivations, and perspectives and consider how to apply them to their collective responsibilities.

CliftonStrengths and DRiV assessments supported a leadership retreat connecting individual talents and motivations with shared business priorities.

Geothermal Rising | Staff Retreat, March 2025

At Geothermal Rising's staff retreat in Palm Springs, California, Gallant prepared and facilitated a CliftonStrengths workshop within a broader strategic planning and team development program.

Preparation included coordinating Top 5 assessments, supporting participant completion, gathering existing profiles, and compiling individual and team materials. The preparation tracker documented 20 completed profiles, including Gallant's facilitator.

The March 26 workshop connected individual discovery with the relationships and collaboration needed across the organization.

A facilitated CliftonStrengths workshop connected individual discovery with strategic planning and collaboration across the organization.

Both engagements began with the individual and extended that understanding to the team's work.

From Potential to Performance

The business case for strengths-based development extends across industries and geographies. A Gallup meta-analysis covering 1.2 million employees across 22 organizations and 45 countries found that work units receiving strengths-based development demonstrated estimated differences of 9–15% higher employee engagement and 14.4–29.4% higher profitability than comparison units.

These findings come from Gallup's research, not measured outcomes from Gallant's client engagements.

Gallup's research links strengths-based development with higher employee engagement and profitability across the work units studied.

Realizing that potential requires continued application. A manager can use strengths conversations to reconsider delegation. A project team can examine how it makes decisions. Departments can identify where complementary talents could improve coordination or resolve stalled work.

Gallant's programs range from three-hour introductory workshops to customized leadership and organizational engagements. Depending on scope, follow-up coaching, team reports, action plans, and reinforcement activities help translate workshop discoveries into everyday practices.

The Resonance of Working Together

Becoming a strengths-based organization means making this understanding part of how work gets done. Individual talents inform development. Complementary strengths inform partnerships. Shared awareness helps teams address differences with greater clarity and purpose.

CliftonStrengths coaching gives that work structure. Gallant brings experience applying it within technical, commercial, and multicultural environments, helping people connect their strengths to the demands of their roles and the contributions of their colleagues.

Discover what happens when individual strengths find shared direction. Explore Gallant's CliftonStrengths coaching and facilitated culture training workshops for leadership teams, departments, and organizations worldwide.