StrongSuits® Foundation Workshop & Practitioner Training (London, Mar 2027)

StrongSuits is a powerful team and personal development system which uses playing cards and maps to generate high-impact conversations about how people behave and how they can develop.

StrongSuits brings together four powerful insights from psychology and organisational development:

• People thrive at work when they play to their strengths
• Diverse, even opposite, strengths can complement one another and make teams stronger
• People prefer to work and interact in different ways
• Every strength can become a limitation when overplayed

The StrongSuits Foundation Workshop is an engaging, hands-on, one-day experience designed to unlock individual and collective potential. Whether you’re joining as an individual or participating with your team, you’ll discover how to play to your strengths, appreciate the unique contributions of others and transform limitations into opportunities for personal and team breakthroughs.

Through a progressive journey of discovery, you’ll explore your natural strengths, preferred working styles, unique contributions and potential blind spots. You’ll discover how strengths can become overplayed, how different and even opposing strengths can complement one another, and how greater awareness of ourselves and others can transform the way we communicate, collaborate and work together.

For individuals, the workshop offers fresh insights into how you think, behave and interact with others, helping you recognise your strengths, understand your limitations and identify opportunities for personal and professional growth.

For intact teams, it creates a shared language for understanding and appreciating differences, uncovering collective strengths, navigating tensions and improving collaboration. By exploring how individual contributions combine to shape the team as a whole, participants can develop greater mutual understanding, more constructive feedback and new ways of working together more effectively.

Combining thought-provoking StrongSuits® exercises, meaningful conversations and practical reflection in an engaging, supportive environment, the workshop creates opportunities for insights that can lead to lasting changes in how people relate, contribute and perform.

After completing the Foundation Workshop, you’ll also have the opportunity to progress to the StrongSuits Practitioner Training, where you’ll learn to facilitate StrongSuits with individuals, groups and teams.

• Leaders and Managers who want to recognise and draw on their own strengths and the diverse strengths of their team members to improve collaboration and performance.
• Team Members and Professionals who want to understand their own strengths, appreciate different working styles and build more effective working relationships.
• Coaches, Facilitators and L&D/OD Professionals who want to experience StrongSuits firsthand and explore its potential for their work with individuals, groups and teams.
• HR, Talent, Culture and DEI Professionals who want to foster more inclusive, strengths-based workplaces where people can contribute at their best.
• Entrepreneurs and Business Owners who want to understand their own strengths and build complementary teams.
• Career Changers and Personal Development Enthusiasts who want to discover their strengths and identify opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Through the course of the workshop you will experience a journey through StrongSuits® as a participant in the group. This includes:

• The Core Ideas - Explore the psychological principles underpinning StrongSuits and what helps people perform at their best.
• Your Winning Hand- Discover your strengths and appreciate the strengths of others.
• Your Opposite Number - Explore cognitive diversity and how complementary strengths make teams more effective.
• Your StrongSuit - Discover your preferred working style, including how you approach conflict and accountability.
• Your ShadowSuit - Explore how your working style changes under stress.
• The StrongSuits Strength Map™ - Map the group's strengths and working styles to reveal patterns and dynamics.
• Overplayed Strengths - Discover how strengths become limitations when overplayed, and how to transform them.
• At Your Best.. and Even Better If.. - Practise giving and receiving appreciative and constructive feedback.
• Your Point of Breakthrough - Identify a meaningful change that could make a real difference to your personal and professional life.

• 1 deck of StrongSuits® cards
• 1 StrongSuits® Introductory Manual
• The results of your StrongSuits® profiles and exercises
• Access to the exclusive StrongSuits membership community
• A StrongSuits Foundation Workshop Certificate of Completion in digital format

The StrongSuits Practitioner Training is a practical, hands-on, one-day programme designed to equip you with the skills and confidence to facilitate StrongSuits® with individuals, groups and teams.

Building on the Foundation Workshop, you'll learn how to guide others through StrongSuits, from identifying individual strengths to exploring cognitive diversity, working styles, feedback and conflict, culminating in opportunities for personal and team breakthroughs.

Through demonstrations, peer facilitation, constructive feedback and focused discussions, you'll gain practical experience facilitating StrongSuits exercises and learn how to apply them to teams, groups and in one-to-one coaching.

The training combines bite-sized theory with hands-on practice, inspiring examples and reflection in an engaging, supportive learning environment.

By the end of the training, you'll have the knowledge, practical experience and confidence to facilitate StrongSuits exercises with individuals, groups and teams, helping them play to their strengths and transform their limitations into opportunities for growth.

• Team Coaches and Facilitators who want to help teams recognise and leverage their strengths, appreciate differences and improve collaboration and performance.
• HR, Talent, Culture, L&D, OD and DEI Professionals who want to facilitate strengths-based development within their organisations and build more engaged, inclusive and effective teams.
• Executive, Leadership, Career and Business Coaches who want to help individuals discover their strengths, transform their limitations and identify opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Leaders and Managers who want to facilitate strengths-based conversations and team development activities to improve working relationships and team effectiveness.
• Organisational Change Agents and Consultants who want to help individuals and teams navigate change, appreciate different perspectives and develop more effective ways of working.
• Educators, Trainers and Learning Professionals who want to incorporate experiential, strengths-based learning into their teaching, training and development programmes.
• Event Hosts and Conference Facilitators who want to engage participants through interactive, strengths-based experiences that spark meaningful conversations, build connections and bring corporate events, staff conferences and team awaydays to life.
• Mediators and Conflict Resolution Practitioners who want to facilitate constructive conversations that help people appreciate differences, understand tensions and improve working relationships.

This practitioner training will focus on developing your facilitation and coaching skills across the StrongSuits development journey. You'll gain hands-on experience facilitating the exercises yourself, exchanging feedback and exploring how to apply them with individuals, groups and teams.

The goal is to equip you with the practical skills, resources and confidence to start using StrongSuits right away, whether you're facilitating team development exercises, engaging groups at events or working with individuals in one-to-one coaching.

• 1 deck of StrongSuits® cards
• The StrongSuits® Practitioner Manual
• Post-course materials, including practical resources to support you in using StrongSuits with individuals, groups and teams
• Access to the exclusive StrongSuits practitioner community
• A StrongSuits Practitioner Training certificate of completion in digital format

Ryan is a Team and Organisational Effectiveness Coach, Agile Coach, Workshop Designer and Trainer. He's been instrumental in transforming ways of working for teams, programmes, departments and business units in organisations such as UBS, BP, Vodafone, UK Ministry of Justice and SAP. Over the past decade he's coached and trained dozens of teams and over a thousand managers, coaches and facilitators across every major sector. Prior to that he was a senior consultant and senior project manager in multi-national consulting firms in the City of London. Ryan is the CEO of StrongSuits. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Cape Town, an MBA from Warwick Business School and over a dozen certifications in personal and team development.

Is there a limit to the group size?

Yes. The Foundation Workshop and Practitioner Training are limited to a maximum of 10 participants per facilitator/trainer. If the number of participants exceeds 10 an additional StrongSuits® Licensed Partner would be brought in to assist with facilitation or training.

What are the dates and times?

Foundation Workshop: 11 March 2027

Practitioner Training: 12 March 2027

Time: 9:30am-5pm GMT

Any further questions?

Please email the facilitator Ryan Behrman directly at [email protected]