General Meeting: Celebrating Strengths: Leveraging Talent to Make Us Stronger

Celebrating Strengths: Leveraging Talent to Make Us Stronger

In a rapidly evolving 2026 workplace, leveraging individual and team strengths is critical to navigating talent shifts, digital transformation, and organizational change. This interactive session invites participants to identify and celebrate their unique strengths, then strategically apply them to real business priorities. Through facilitated discussion and reflection, attendees will uncover new ways to enhance collaboration, drive engagement, and build more resilient teams. Participants will walk away with practical approaches to aligning strengths with organizational goals—ready to apply the next day.

Learner Objectives:

• Identify and articulate personal strengths that contribute to team success.
• Explore how team strengths can be applied to address current organizational challenges and opportunities.
• Develop strategies for leveraging strengths to enhance collaboration, adaptability, and performance.
• Leave with practical, actionable ways to integrate strengths into ongoing initiatives and change efforts.

ATD Capability Model – Building Personal Capability, Developing Professional Capability, Impacting Organizational Capability

To learn more about this model see: https://tdcapability.org/

Speaker

Barbara Davis  is a Talent Management and L&D manager with 10 years of experience helping professionals—from the plant floor to leadership—grow with purpose and impact. She designs training and development strategies that activate change, align with business goals, and elevate performance.

Barbara's personal approach is grounded in a simple belief: Onward – with momentum.

Whether it's building onboarding journeys, launching leadership programs, or driving process improvements, her focus on progress that lasts—growth that’s personal, practical, and strategic.

Barbara completed her Master's degree in Organizational Psychology and Talent Management in 2016 and has been working within the Chemical Manufacturing industry ever since.