Strengths-based development for organizations navigating growth and change.
I help leaders and teams understand, apply, and build upon what they already do best—strengthening how they lead, collaborate, and move through change.
As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and VIA Workplaces at Their Best Certified Consultant, I design and facilitate strengths-based retreats, workshops, leadership development, and longer-term organizational initiatives.
Explore strengths-based solutions:
What becomes possible when we start with strengths?
During growth and change, teams can become preoccupied with what is missing: a capability gap, a communication problem, or a person who needs to adapt. Addressing gaps matters, but when this becomes the primary lens, teams can lose sight of the capacities already present.
A strengths-based approach shifts the question from “What is wrong, and how do we correct it?” to “What do we have between us, and how can we put it to work?”
When people understand what they contribute—and what they need from one another—they can navigate change more resourcefully, collaborate more effectively, and make intentional choices about how work gets done.
Drawing on Gallup CliftonStrengths® and VIA Character Strengths, I help organizations recognize and mobilize the capacities already present in their people.
Build on what is already strong.
One-on-One Coaching
Build on what is strongest in you—and expand how you meet what comes next.
I coach professionals across career stages to recognize their strengths, cultivate inner resources, understand potential blind spots, and respond with greater clarity and choice. Engagements may include ongoing coaching, Gallup CliftonStrengths® or VIA Character Strengths debriefs, and support through transition or uncertainty.
Team Retreats and Offsites
Step outside the everyday—and discover what becomes possible when your team’s strengths come together.
I design and facilitate customized retreats and offsites that combine strengths assessments, individual debriefs, and dynamic group experiences. Teams develop a shared language, deepen collaboration, and make more intentional choices about how they work together.
Learning and Development
Help people bring more of who they are to how they work, relate, and lead.
I design strengths-based workshops, talks, and learning experiences for individuals, teams, leaders, and workplace relationships. Offered independently or within an existing L&D program, each experience helps people recognize their capacities, understand potential blind spots, and apply their strengths with greater intention.
Trusted to help organizations turn strengths into practice
#samsales Consulting: Retreat facilitation, CliftonStrengths® team development, and executive coaching during rapid growth.
Jerónimo Martins: CliftonStrengths® debriefs and development-planning workshops for two cohorts of emerging professionals.
Unmind: Facilitation of leadership Masterminds on positive cultures, change readiness, and burnout.
About Paula Castillo, MPP, PCC
Paula Castillo, MPP, PCC is a strengths-based development expert who helps organizations translate individual strengths into leadership, relationships, culture, and collective capacity—particularly during growth and change.
She brings together Gallup CliftonStrengths®, VIA Character Strengths, team and leadership coaching, and 15+ years of experience in organizational strategy and results measurement. In addition to being a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, Paula holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Paula helps organizations build on what is already strong while developing the relationships, practices, and capacity needed for what comes next. She works in English and Spanish.
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