The Out and About Podcast25 Sep 2024

Navigating and Optimizing the Strengths of Your Team with Gretchen Pisano

Gretchen Pisano’s journey reflects the idea that no experience is wasted, as she believes her early career in graphic facilitation laid the foundation for her expertise. For seven years, she traveled globally, illustrating live conversations during high-level corporate meetings. This experience honed her ability to listen deeply—not just to what was said but also to what was left unsaid, across various cultural contexts. It led her to facilitate strategic conversations, where she noticed while organizations invest heavily in systems, they overlook the importance of changing how people think. This realization spurred her to pursue a master’s degree in applied positive psychology, combining her street smarts with evidence-based theories. Today, as the CEO and co-founder of pLink Leadership, she focuses on executive coaching and leadership development, aiming to align individual and collective growth with organizational strategy. She finds joy in the challenge of guiding teams, likening it to steering an aircraft carrier—a hard but rewarding task.

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Tune in as we chat with Gretchen about talents versus strengths, how to turn a talent into a strength, and how overusing a strength can turn it into a “weakness.” Plus, are you giving your strengths away for free?

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