Customer Spotlights
Welcome to the StrengthsMugs Podcast!
Scott Mackes is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and the Founder of StrengthsMugs, an officially licensed partner of Gallup to sell CliftonStrengths merchandise. Scott's CliftonStrengths are Competition, Includer, Futuristic, Achiever, and Self-Assurance. Scott is also a dedicated advocate for military veterans pursuing entrepreneurship. As the founder of the Service Academy Business Mastermind (SABM) Group, he has built a global community that offers resources, guidance, and networking opportunities for veterans interested in business ventures. Since its launch in 2017, the SABM Group has gained impressive traction with over 150,000 podcast downloads, 600 investor group members, and 100 participants in the 10X Vets...
Using Strengths to Make Super Fast Deliveries with Christian Marchetti
Christian Marchetti is the CEO of Excel Courier, Inc. Based in the Washington, DC area and headquartered in Sterling, VA with additional locations in Baltimore, MD, Richmond, VA and Harrisburg PA, Excel Courier has a reputation for providing the most professional, reliable high-touch, same-day delivery, and warehouse management services available in the Mid-Atlantic region for over 35 years. The company is known for medical courier services and also specializes in managing the flow of goods from origin to end consumer. Christian and his team are experts in developing the right custom supply chain solution to support their customers, offering everything...
How Alicia Santamaria’s Top 5 Strengths Accelerated Her Success
Alicia Santamaria is Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Adelante Coaching + Consulting, a company that collaborates with executive leaders, team managers and People Operations/HR to create high-performing and positive workplaces that meet the changing needs of today’s workforce. Alicia started her career as a conflict resolution trainer and team facilitator over 25 years ago. She currently focuses her workplace coaching and consulting on positive organizational culture-building through leadership development, increasing manager effectiveness, strengths-based employee engagement and helping teams develop high performing and high trust cultures. She is particularly passionate about helping individuals learn new skills to better engage in...
From Navy Commander to Strengths Coach with Dennis Volpe
Dennis Volpe currently serves as a Principal Consultant and Executive Performance and Transition Coach with the Leadership Research Institute where he partners with organizations to accelerate the development of their Leaders and Leadership Teams by developing, equipping, and empowering them to be the transformative force needed to make their environment and, ultimately, the world a better place. Dennis’ understanding of personal leadership comes from his over twenty years of experience as a career Naval Officer to include Command at Sea and a variety of intellectual pursuits. His Top 5 Strengths are Individualization, Relator, Focus, Achiever and Harmony. Strengths Based Leadership...
Building a Better Community & Maximizing Team Development with Bethany Brewer
Meet Bethany Brewer, Organizational Development Manager for the City of Burnsville, a suburb in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota. Burnsville is home to over 62,000 residents and employs over 300 staff who work to create great experiences in their community. Bethany’s Top 5 Strengths are Empathy, Harmony, Maximizer, Individualization, and Adaptability and she uses the CliftonStrengths assessment as a professional team development tool. In her experience, it helps create a common language that helps her and her colleagues better understand themselves and each other and adapt how they work together to create better results for the community...