Lead through Strengths

Discover Your Strengths.
Elevate Your Leadership.

A three-month leadership development experience for credit union managers and emerging leaders who want to better understand their strengths, elevate their leadership effectiveness, and create greater impact within their teams.

Leadership Begins With Understanding Yourself

Every leader brings unique talents, perspectives, and ways of approaching their work. Understanding how those strengths influence communication, decision-making, coaching, and relationships creates the foundation for more intentional leadership.

Lead Through Strengths helps managers and emerging leaders discover how to leverage their natural talents to strengthen leadership effectiveness, support their teams, and create meaningful impact within their credit unions.

Who It’s For

Managers

Leaders responsible for guiding people, strengthening teams, and driving results.

Emerging Leaders

Professionals preparing to take on greater leadership responsibilities.

Team Leaders

Individuals leading people, projects, processes, or cross-functional initiatives.

The Power of Strengths-Based Leadership

CliftonStrengths helps leaders understand what they naturally do best and how their talents influence their leadership, relationships, and decision-making.

Through greater self-awareness, reflection, and application, participants learn how to leverage their strengths to improve communication, coaching, accountability, decision-making, and collaboration.

The Experience

CliftonStrengths Assessment

Discover your natural talents and leadership patterns through a personalized assessment and report.

Virtual Learning Sessions

Participate in interactive virtual sessions focused on applying strengths to real leadership situations.

Individual Coaching

Receive personalized guidance to connect your strengths with current leadership opportunities.

Workplace Application

Bring real leadership challenges into the experience and immediately apply what you learn.

Leadership Resources

Continue building your strengths-based leadership approach with practical tools and resources.

What Leaders Take Forward

Through greater self-awareness and intentional application, participants leave with new perspectives, practical tools, and a clearer understanding of how to apply their strengths to lead more effectively.

Greater Self Awareness

Understand your CliftonStrengths, natural talents, and leadership patterns.

Stronger Leadership Effectiveness

Recognize how your strengths support your impact and where blind spots may emerge.

Strengths-Based Leadership Tools

Apply your strengths to communication, coaching, accountability, change, and decision-making.

A Personalized Development Plan

Create a strengths-based leadership plan aligned with your unique talents and goals.

Upcoming Cohorts

Participants may select either the fall 2026 or winter 2027 cohort. Each cohort includes the same three-session experience, held virtually from 12:00–3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Fall 2026 Cohort

Begins September 17, 2026
Registration closes September 4, 2026

Winter 2027 Cohort

Begins January 28, 2027
Registration closes January 15, 2027

Ready to Lead through
Your Strengths?

Discover how understanding your natural talents can help you become a more confident, effective leader.

Carolyn Reeves

Carolyn Reeves partners with credit union leaders to build strong, healthy, people-centered organizations. With more than 19 years of experience, she specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, strategic planning, organizational design, and culture transformation. Carolyn works with leadership teams to align strategy, people, and organizational performance, helping organizations create environments where leaders and employees thrive.

Carolyn is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and Credit Union Development Educator (CUDE). She holds a Master of Science in Instructional Technology from Georgia State University.