Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this interactive session, you’ll explore what sets the best strengths practitioners apart.
This experience brings together three VIA faculty experts to demonstrate how strengths come to life in the workplace using VIA’s Workplaces at Their Best (WATB) framework, a research-backed approach to helping people and performance thrive together.
You’ll hear directly from practitioners and explore how strengths can be applied across leadership, transitions, and everyday work challenges.
Jump to the section most relevant to you:
🔹 Leading with Your Whole Self – Dana L. Walden, PCC
🔹 Strengths as an Anchor for Change – Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, PMP
🔹 Expanding Through Lesser Strengths – Sonya Tinsley-Hook
In this session, we cover:
(1:00) Introduction
(13:07) Leadership and strengths in action with Dana Walden
(44:01) Navigating change with strengths with Ruth Pearce
(1:16:39) Using lesser strengths to grow your impact with Sonya Tinsley-Hook
(1:47:24) Key insights from each speaker
🌟 Become Certified as a VIA Workplace Consultant:
viacharacter.org/courses/workplaces-at-their-best-for-consultants-learning-path
🌟 Connect with a Strengths Advisor to explore your next step:
calendly.com/viacharacter/talk-with-via
Subscribe to VIA’s YouTube Channel: /@viastrengths
Learn more about VIA Institute: viacharacter.org
LinkedIn: /via-institute-on-character
Instagram: /viastrengths
#characterstrengths #positivepsychology #leadershipdevelopment #workplaceculture #wellbeing
About VIA Institute
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, the VIA Institute on Character is a global nonprofit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character strengths. The VIA Survey, available in 46 languages, has helped over 35 million people discover and apply their strengths to improve well-being, relationships, and performance. With more than 10,000 people taking the survey each day, it is the most widely used peer-reviewed strengths assessment in the world.
In this interactive session, you’ll explore what sets the best strengths practitioners apart.
This experience brings together three VIA faculty experts to demonstrate how strengths come to life in the workplace using VIA’s Workplaces at Their Best (WATB) framework, a research-backed approach to helping people and performance thrive together.
You’ll hear directly from practitioners and explore how strengths can be applied across leadership, transitions, and everyday work challenges.
Jump to the section most relevant to you:
🔹 Leading with Your Whole Self – Dana L. Walden, PCC
🔹 Strengths as an Anchor for Change – Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, PMP
🔹 Expanding Through Lesser Strengths – Sonya Tinsley-Hook
In this session, we cover:
(1:00) Introduction
(13:07) Leadership and strengths in action with Dana Walden
(44:01) Navigating change with strengths with Ruth Pearce
(1:16:39) Using lesser strengths to grow your impact with Sonya Tinsley-Hook
(1:47:24) Key insights from each speaker
🌟 Become Certified as a VIA Workplace Consultant:
viacharacter.org/courses/workplaces-at-their-best-for-consultants-learning-path
🌟 Connect with a Strengths Advisor to explore your next step:
calendly.com/viacharacter/talk-with-via
Subscribe to VIA’s YouTube Channel: /@viastrengths
Learn more about VIA Institute: viacharacter.org
LinkedIn: /via-institute-on-character
Instagram: /viastrengths
#characterstrengths #positivepsychology #leadershipdevelopment #workplaceculture #wellbeing
About VIA Institute
Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, the VIA Institute on Character is a global nonprofit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character strengths. The VIA Survey, available in 46 languages, has helped over 35 million people discover and apply their strengths to improve well-being, relationships, and performance. With more than 10,000 people taking the survey each day, it is the most widely used peer-reviewed strengths assessment in the world.
