Custom Workshops, Trainings, and Leadership Retreats for Teams and Organizations
Purpose Rising
Custom Workshops, Trainings, and Leadership Retreats for Teams and Organizations
Turning individual strengths into collective impact.
Complimentary Initial Consultation
"We don’t grow by focusing on what is wrong. We grow by building on what is strong."
Purpose Rising designs and facilitates customized organizational experiences that help people understand their strengths, navigate pressure, strengthen relationships, and translate individual talents into collective effectiveness.
Drawing on more than 30 years of higher education leadership experience, Paul Moda brings together CliftonStrengths and HeartMath-informed self-regulation practices to support more intentional leadership, healthier communication, and purposeful collaboration.
⭐ Signature Engagement Formats
- Half-Day CliftonStrengths Team Intensive: A focused, high-energy experience introducing the CliftonStrengths language to your group. Participants explore their talents across the four domains, recognize complementary strengths, and identify opportunities for more effective partnership.
- Full-Day Culture & Communication Workshop: An immersive experience exploring how your team collaborates under pressure. Participants examine individual profiles, relational dynamics, communication styles, and real-world team challenges.
- Multi-Day Experiential Leadership Retreat: A comprehensive, facilitated experience integrating strengths-based strategic planning with HeartMath-informed self-regulation practices to support sustainable performance, strengthen trust, and build a shared organizational vision.
⭐ Who These Engagements Serve
- Higher Education Institutions: Deans, academic departments, student affairs divisions, and student government or leadership cohorts.
- K–12 Educators & Counselors: Faculty groups, campus and administrative teams, and professionals seeking a shared language for collaboration and development.
- Mission-Driven & Nonprofit Organizations: Executive boards and leadership teams navigating strategic priorities, mission alignment, or organizational change.
- Corporate & Departmental Teams: Cross-functional groups seeking to improve communication, strengthen engagement, and work more effectively together.
⭐ Materials & Assessments
- CliftonStrengths assessment access codes (Top 5 or Full 34) can be incorporated into your engagement as appropriate. Assessment codes are an additional cost and will be included in the engagement proposal based on participant needs and the selected assessment.
- Custom team materials and facilitation resources are tailored to the scope of each engagement.
⭐ Core Deliverables & Takeaways
- A Shared Language of Strengths: An objective, research-informed framework for understanding individual talents and differences.
- Team Strengths Matrix & Talent Grid: A visual representation of your team's strengths distribution, highlighting complementary talents and opportunities for intentional partnership.
- Somatic Resilience & Self-Regulation Tools: Practical techniques to support self-awareness, composure, and more intentional responses during challenging conversations, meetings, and organizational transitions.
- Developmental Roadmaps: Actionable agreements and follow-through frameworks that help translate workshop insights into everyday practice.
⭐ Logistics & Delivery
- Flexible Facilitation: On-site delivery at your campus, retreat facility, or company venue, with arrangements tailored to your location and needs.
- Virtual Engagements: Facilitated experiences using collaborative digital tools for distributed and remote teams.
- Materials & Assessments: CliftonStrengths Top 5 or Full 34 assessment access, team grid development, and facilitation materials coordinated according to the agreed scope.
⭐ Investment
Every engagement is customized to the organization's goals, cohort size, duration, assessment needs, and location. Following our initial conversation, Purpose Rising will work with you to determine an appropriate format, scope, and proposal.
⭐ Let's Start a Conversation
The first step is a complimentary initial consultation. We'll discuss your team's needs, explore your goals, and consider how a Purpose Rising engagement might best serve your organization.
The first step is a complimentary initial consultation. We'll discuss your team's needs, explore your goals, and consider how a Purpose Rising engagement might best serve your organization.
There is no charge or obligation for this conversation. Any subsequent engagement will be scoped and priced separately.
Let's explore what's possible when individual strengths come together in service of a shared purpose.