Strengths Coaches
Gallup Certified Coaches
Dr. Eric Buller
Year Certified: 2016
Strengths Coaching Experience and Interest Areas: Dr. Buller introduced Clifton Strengths to the Wilks Leadership Institute in 2012 and the Institute has been doing campus workshops for students, staff and faculty ever since. He believes firmly in the concept of using Strengths to “lead the life well-lived” (Don Clifton) by focusing on our talents. He specifically enjoys working with athletes and currently has meaningful engagements with five Miami intercollegiate teams, using Strengths to improve communication, commitment and role identification. Additionally, he coaches high school students and organizational leaders as an Executive Associate in the Intrepid Leadership Group.
Top 5 Signature Themes: Responsibility - Consistency - Harmony - Significance - Deliberative
Favorite Strengths Quote: “The single greatest strength is uncovering talent in others.” -- Tom Rath
Dr. Megan Gerhardt
Year Certified: 2014
Strengths Coaching Experience and Interest Areas: Dr. Gerhardt has been working with students and business professionals on strengths based development since 2009, inspired by the premise that effective leadership takes a different shape for each person. As co-director of the Center for Business Leadership, she works with students to explore how they can be most effective in current and future leadership roles through intensive labs and one-on-one coaching. As a leadership development consultant (The Gerhardt Group) she works regularly with Miami faculty and staff as well as industry professionals delivering regular strengths-based development workshops.
Top 5 Signature Themes: Ideation - Intellection - Input - Strategic - Learner
Favorite Strengths Quote: "If you try to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything." -- Tom Rath
Dr. Jennifer Yamashiro
Year Certified: 2018
Strengths Coaching Experience and Interest Areas: Higher Education: Honors Students, STudent Groups, Academic Units, and Administrative Units on Miami Regionals
Top 5 Signature Themes: Learner - Achiever - Context - Intellection - Positivity
Favorite Strengths Quote: "A life unexamined is not worth living." -- Plato
Courtney Wallace
Year Certified: 2018
Top 5 Signature Themes: Input - Learner - Discipline - Restorative - Consistency
Student Project Coordinators
Cassidy Hemm
Top 5 Signature Themes: Restorative - Individualization - Significance - Discipline - Command
Carolyn Scully
Top 5 Signature Themes: Futuristic - Individualization - Communication - Significance - Restorative
Jessica von Zastrow
Top 5 Signature Themes: Learner - Woo - Communication - Achiever - Futuristic