Walk the Walk Archive

Recently, we released Scott’s two-part conversation with Marla Cornelius, a nonprofit consultant, coach, and strengths-based leadership expert. The conversation was lively and enlightening, exploring themes of learning, leading, and building upon our own unique strengths. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, or if you missed one of the two parts, both episodes are available here on one link. Please don’t miss out on this thought-provoking and deeply relevant conversation! 

Marla visited the Providence campus on March 10^th and 11^th to work with our students, faculty, and staff as they completed the CliftonStrengths Assessment. As a CliftonStrengths coach, Marla communicates the need for shifting from a deficit-based mindset to a strengths-based approach, emphasizing the importance of focusing on what’s right with people and how that perspective drives engagement, growth, and impact. 

Specifically, Scott and Marla’s two-part conversation explores several key themes: 

• Leading Self First: Understanding how purpose, values, and self-awareness shape effective leadership. 

• Management vs. Leadership: Exploring the balance between big-picture vision and the practical execution needed to achieve it. 

• Adapting to Change: Examining how leaders can navigate uncertainty by focusing on impact, embracing flexibility, and using tools like scenario planning. 

• Strengths-Based Leadership: Highlighting how identifying and leveraging natural talents can empower individuals and teams. 

• Understanding Strengths: Examining CliftonStrengths as a research-based, descriptive tool that helps individuals identify and articulate their natural talents. 

• From Insight to Action: Exploring the “name it, claim it, aim it” framework and how strengths can be intentionally applied to real challenges and goals. 

• Strengths in Practice: Looking at how strengths show up in the classroom, in leadership, and in everyday decision-making. 

• Relationships and Communication: Understanding how awareness of our own strengths, and those of others, can reduce friction and improve how we work and live together. 

Scott and Marla also walk through Scott’s own CliftonStrengths results, offering a practical, real-time example of how this work can deepen understanding and shape leadership. 

They conclude with a clear takeaway: strengths aren’t just something to identify—they’re something to use, intentionally, in how we learn deeply, lead bravely, and connect with others. 

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Thanks for walking the walk. 

—Scott McLarty