Summary: Jack Zenger interviews Michelle McQuaid, a renowned speaker and thought leader in the strengths-based movement. Michelle has presented to and taught at hundreds of events, seminars, and workshops - including at Happiness & Its Causes, IBM, The Wharton Business School, and more. Her work and experience has been featured in Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Boss Magazine, The Age, Women's Agenda, Wellbeing Magazine and more. Michelle is the author of several books, including “Your Strengths Blueprint: How to be Engaged, Energized and Happy at Work.” She holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Applied Positive Psychology and is currently completing a PhD.In this episode, she shares her latest research in the field of training and development as well as personal stories from her career.Jack and Michelle will also discuss topics such as:What is a strength?Are people accurate judges of their own strengths?How do you help people develop their strengths?We’d love for you to experience our award-winning leadership workshops in a city near you. We also invite you to join us for our monthly webinars. To learn more, visit zengerfolkman.com/events. To listen to past podcast episodes and view the notes for this episode, visit zengerfolkman.com/podcast. There you can also enter our monthly book contest.
