Craft Your Work and Life
Around Your Strengths
Tap into your character strengths, 24 positive traits that help define who you are and what you do when at your best.
Celebrate What’s Strong
Put your character strengths into practice! Character strengths are human traits, like Creativity, Perseverance, and Love of Learning, that help ignite what’s best in individuals, families, teams, and organizations.
30 Days of Character Strengths: A Guided Practice to Ignite Your Best is a resource to help you pursue your unique character strengths as pathways to happiness and success. If you seek to elevate what’s best in yourself or others – your children or grandchildren, clients, team members, employees, or students – this deep dive into many facets of character strengths will fuel your journey.
Based in the rigors of science from fields such as positive psychology and neuroscience, the activities in this book will cultivate your knowledge and practice of character strengths. Each activity is preceded by a story and/or compelling research to introduce the activity. It is followed by a reflection question to help you derive meaning from the activity.
About Jane
In a nutshell: I have retired! After winding down client work in 2025, I have officially started a new life chapter. What an incredible nearly lifelong journey it has been!
As an author, presenter, facilitator, and coach, I’ve been dedicated to helping people craft their work and lives around their strengths. I feel so grateful to have fulfilled this calling because I’m able to express my own signature strengths – creativity, humor, perspective, honesty, and curiosity – freely, to help people thrive.
I’m deeply grateful to my brave clients who challenged themselves (and me!) over the years; brilliant mentors, who opened my eyes to new ways of acting and being; people who took chances on me and offered opportunities, even when I wasn’t exactly “proven;” colleagues and friends, who shared the journey and provided much needed encouragement; a team of incredible professionals who advised me and helped provide high quality products and services; my incredible family, who listened and loved me even when I wasn’t at my best; and everyone with whom I’ve crossed paths over the years. I’ve learned from each of you through moments, months, and years of engagement and connection.
My book, 30 Days of Character Strengths: A Guided Practice to Ignite Your Best remains available for sale. And stay tuned… I’m brimming with ideas for contributing in new and meaningful ways. I look forward to this next chapter!
Blog Archive
By harnessing the power of your character strengths and discover how they can empower you to meet challenges and lead a more robust life.
No matter the roles you play in life – parent, friend, leader, team member, or volunteer – character strengths will bolster you and those around you in virtually any situation.
These articles from my Strength Based Living (SBL) blog archive offer research-based practices and resources that will help you engage your character strengths deliberately and effectively. Happy Reading!
Three Ways to Embrace Your Strengths Today
In our ever-evolving world, even as we face innumerable challenges, a remarkable shift within individuals, teams, and organizations
Seasonal Transitions and Positive Practices
Greetings and Happy September! The seasons are changing here in the Midwest from summer to fall. Like
Strengths Spotting – In 3 Essential Ways
If you could only learn one practice out of dozens of strengths interventions, what would it be?