Gallup Strengths Coaching
Stop Patching Weaknesses. Start Building on Your Strengths.
Gallup CliftonStrengths coaching for individuals, teams, and boards — helping people understand how they're wired, work better together, and lead from what makes them exceptional.
6X
People who use their strengths daily
are 6X more likely to be engaged at work.
3X
Employees who use their strengths are 3X more likely to report an excellent quality of life.
1 in 3
Only 30% of employees report they get to do what they do best every day.
Most professional development gets it backwards.
Annual reviews focus on weaknesses. Training programs try to make everyone well-rounded. Organizations pour resources into fixing what's wrong with their people and wonder why engagement stays flat and burnout keeps climbing.
Gallup's research tells a different story. The gap between who your people actually are and what their work asks of them — that's where conflict starts, where burnout begins, and where potential goes unrealized.
Gallup CliftonStrengths coaching closes that gap.
Three Steps. One Shift That Changes Everything.
Every Gallup Strengths engagement follows the same arc — from discovery to application. Here's what that looks like.
Name It.
We start with the Gallup Strengths
assessment— the only research-based strengths assessment in the world.
With 34 possible strength themes and nearly 34 million possible combinations of top five themes, your results are as unique as a fingerprint.
We help you understand what your results actually mean, not just in theory, but in the context of your specific role, your team, and the challenges you're navigating right now.
Claim It.
Knowing your strengths is just the beginning. Claiming them means understanding how they show up in your day-to-day work. Why certain tasks energize you while others drain you, why you approach problems the way you do, and why the people around you sometimes operate in ways that feel completely foreign.
This is where the self-awareness becomes genuinely useful.
Aim It.
The real value of Gallup Strengths isn't the assessment, it's what you do with it.
We work with individuals and teams to identify concrete, practical ways to apply their strengths to the work at hand.
We help you develop real strategies for how to lead, collaborate, delegate, and communicate in ways that feel natural and produce better results.
Every team has blind spots. This is how you find them.
Gallup Strengths coaching is valuable at any stage — but it's particularly powerful in these situations.
Team Conflict
When people don't understand each other's strengths, they mistake difference for deficiency.
Gallup Strengths gives teams a shared language for what's actually happening.
New or Restructured Teams
New team formation — or restructuring after a reorganization — is one of the highest-leverage moments to invest in strengths work.
Get the foundation right from the start.
Leadership Development
Leaders who understand their own strengths lead more effectively, delegate more naturally, and build teams that complement rather than replicate them.
Board Development
Boards rarely invest in teambuilding that helps members understand each other's strengths and it shows.
Gallup Strengths is one of the most effective tools for building board cohesion and improving the board-ED relationship.
Individual, Team, or Board — We Have a Format That Fits.
Whether you're starting with yourself or investing in your whole organization, here's what a Gallup Strengths engagement looks like.
Individual Coaching Package
Lead from what makes you exceptional.
WHAT THIS IS
A four-session individual coaching package that takes you from assessment through application. We don't just help you understand your strengths — we help you figure out exactly how to use them in the context of your current role, goals, and challenges.
For managers, this includes how to shift from a weakness-fixing to a strengths-based leadership model.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
-Name It — Introductory session (90 minutes)
-Claim It — Digging deeper into strength (1 hour)
-Aim It — Leveraging strengths to achieve your goal (1 hour)
-Living Your Strengths — Next steps (1 hour)
Who This Is for
Individual leaders, managers, and rising professionals who want to understand their strengths and apply them to their current goals or challenges.
Pricing
$1,500 for nonprofit staff or board members
$1,800 for for-profit leaders
Team Facilitation Package
Build a team that leads from its collective strengths.
WHAT THIS IS
A three-month package that combines manager coaching with four team facilitation sessions. By the end, your manager understands their own strengths and how to apply them to leading the team, and the team understands each other well enough to work from a place of genuine collaboration rather than constant friction.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
-Manager coaching (2 sessions)
-Session 1: Introduce the team to CliftonStrengths
-Session 2: The power of strengths-based partnerships
-Session 3: Explore the team's strengths
-Session 4: The best of us
Pricing
(Nonprofit staff or boards):
Up to 25 people — $5,500
26–50 people — $6,600 ·
51–75 people — $7,920 ·
75+ people — contact us
(For-profit teams):
Up to 25 people — $6,470 ·
26–50 people — $7,760 ·
51–75 people — $9,300 ·
75+ people — contact us
Retreat Integration
A retreat your team will actually talk about.
WHAT THIS IS
Already planning a staff or board retreat? Gallup Strengths can be woven directly into your retreat agenda, giving your team the self-awareness and shared language to make every other part of the day land better.
Can be delivered as a standalone half-day strengths session or integrated into a full retreat facilitated by MPC.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
-Gallup Strengths assessment for all participants
-Facilitated strengths session integrated into your retreat agenda
-Team application activities
-Written summary of team strengths and insights
Who is this for
Organizations already planning a staff or board retreat who want to weave strengths work into the day. Can be a half-day standalone or integrated into a full retreat facilitated by MPC.
FAQs
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Gallup CliftonStrengths coaching helps individuals and teams identify their natural strengths and learn how to apply them at work. Rather than focusing on fixing weaknesses, it helps people understand what they do best and build their work around those strengths.
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Gallup Strengths coaching is valuable for individuals, leadership teams, staff teams, and boards. It's particularly powerful for teams experiencing conflict, newly formed or restructured teams, leaders investing in their own development, and boards looking to improve cohesion and the board-ED relationship.
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Melanie Palmer is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths coach with deep nonprofit experience. Unlike other Gallup coaches who work with nonprofits, Melanie has often worked alongside the teams she coaches seeing their real challenges firsthand before the coaching begins. This means the coaching connects directly to what the team is actually navigating, not hypothetical scenarios.
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Yes — Gallup Strengths can be woven directly into your retreat agenda as a standalone half-day session or integrated into a full retreat facilitated by MPC. This includes the CliftonStrengths assessment for all participants, a facilitated strengths session, team application activities, and a written summary of team strengths and insights.
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Yes. While M. Palmer Consulting has deep expertise in the nonprofit sector, Gallup Strengths coaching is available to individuals and teams in both nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Separate pricing applies for for-profit leaders and teams.
Ready to find out what your team is really made of?
Whether you're starting with yourself or investing in your whole team — let's talk about what Gallup Strengths coaching could look like for your organization.