Gallup CliftonStrengths coaching & workshops
Strengths in Motion helps professionals and organizations identify their natural talents and put them to work — through one-on-one coaching, team workshops, and hands-on career support.
What we offer
Every engagement starts with the CliftonStrengths assessment. From there, the work is shaped around who's in the room — a single leader, a whole team, or someone in the middle of a career move.
For leaders & individuals
Private sessions to understand your top strengths and apply them where they matter — leading people, making decisions, and showing up with confidence.
Good fit for: managers, healthcare leaders, and professionals stepping into a bigger role.
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Tailored workshops that give teams a shared language for how each person works best — and turn that into a strengths-based culture.
Good fit for: departments, healthcare systems, student cohorts, and teams going through growth or restructuring.
Ask about a workshopFor career transitions
Mentorship for the moments when your next step isn't obvious — a new role, a new field, or a first job after training.
Good fit for: career changers, new graduates, clinicians, and emerging leaders.
Ask about career supportWhy a strengths-based focus
CliftonStrengths identifies the patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that come most naturally to you. Building on those patterns — instead of forcing improvement on weaknesses — changes how people experience their work.
People who use their strengths every day are significantly more engaged and productive at work.
A strengths focus is linked to greater life satisfaction, better health, and stronger relationships.
When a team knows each other's strengths, roles get clearer, conflict gets easier, and collaboration improves.
Founder & head coach
Joelle founded Strengths in Motion after seeing, from inside healthcare, how much talent goes unused when people are only ever coached on their gaps. An associate professor and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, she brings both to her work: the rigor of an educator and the perspective of someone who has built a career across roles.
Based in Southern California, she now leads workshops for organizations, university programs, and professional groups, and coaches individuals through leadership growth and career transitions — always starting from the same question: what do you naturally do well, and how do we put it in motion?
In the room
From leadership cohorts to student groups, the format changes — the goal of leaving with a clearer picture of your strengths doesn't.
The CliftonStrengths framework
Gallup organizes its 34 talent themes into four domains. Every coaching session and workshop uses this shared language. Here's what each domain covers, and a short reflection on how you tend to work.
How you make things happen and get work across the finish line.
Achiever, Arranger, Belief, Consistency, Deliberative, Discipline, Focus, Responsibility, Restorative
How you take charge, speak up, and make sure your team is heard.
Activator, Command, Communication, Competition, Maximizer, Self-Assurance, Significance, Woo
How you build the trust that holds a team together.
Adaptability, Connectedness, Developer, Empathy, Harmony, Includer, Individualization, Positivity, Relator
How you absorb information and think through what's next.
Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategic
Quick check
Four questions to reflect on your work habits. This informal exercise does not measure your strengths or replace the official CliftonStrengths assessment.
Your reflection
A full CliftonStrengths 34 debrief shows your exact theme order and how the domains combine — that's where the coaching starts.
Request a full debriefQuestions
CliftonStrengths is Gallup's talent assessment. It identifies your natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving and ranks them across 34 themes, grouped into four domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking. Coaching and workshops use those results as a shared language for how each person works best.
Yes. Every engagement starts with the CliftonStrengths assessment, because the coaching and workshop content is built around your results. If you have already taken it, mention that in your message.
Both. Strengths in Motion is based in Southern California. One-on-one coaching and career support are available virtually to clients anywhere, and workshops can be run virtually or on-site in California.
Individuals such as managers, healthcare leaders, clinicians, career changers, new graduates, and emerging leaders, and groups such as departments, healthcare systems, university programs, student cohorts, and professional associations.
Workshops are tailored to the group. They typically include a group CliftonStrengths debrief, sessions on communication and collaboration, and leadership or engagement exercises, in formats built for departments, cohorts, and offsites. Groups range from a handful of people to 35 or more.
No. Strengths in Motion Consulting is an independent practice led by Joelle Ayoub, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Gallup and CliftonStrengths are registered trademarks of Gallup, Inc.
Send a message through the contact form or email joelleayoubpharmd@gmail.com with what you are working on. Joelle usually replies within a couple of business days to set up a conversation.
Get in touch
Whether it's a team offsite, a leadership program, or your own next career move, send a note and Joelle will follow up to set up a conversation.