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Lisa Dunbar, CEO

What Is We? The Self-Led Development Platform Built on the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®

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What if understanding your personality wasn’t just a one-time revelation, but an ongoing resource you could return to throughout your career? That’s where personality insights become powerful—when they’re applied. When people connect what they’ve learned about themselves to how they communicate, collaborate, and lead every day. That belief inspired the creation of We, the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Experience.  Built on the same trusted science, We makes personality development practical, personal, and accessible through a self-led, digital experience that evolves with you.  It’s a space where reflection meets real work—an interactive platform people can explore, revisit, and apply as their… Read More »What Is We? The Self-Led Development Platform Built on the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®

Why the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is the Key to Better Conversations at Work

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Only 16% of employees say their last conversation with their manager was meaningful (Gallup). Even well-intentioned conversations can miss the mark when there’s no common language to describe how people work. Great conversations build great teams, but to make that possible, managers need a common framework to discuss behavioral differences—one that strengthens understanding, alignment, and performance across the team. Why Conversations About How People Work Are Difficult—Even for Great Managers Most managers can easily describe what needs to be done. The challenge begins when they need to discuss how someone approaches their work. What they may recognize intuitively is often… Read More »Why the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is the Key to Better Conversations at Work

How the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Unlocks Performance at Every Stage of the Employee Lifecycle

How the WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ Unlocks Performance at Every Stage of the Employee Lifecycle

HR teams today are being asked to do the impossible: increase engagement, improve retention, support development, and strengthen culture, all without adding more programs, more people, or more hours in the day. That’s why we created The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®. Built on the gold-standard Five-Factor Model and grounded in over 40 years of behavioral science, the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is a personality-based development tool built specifically for the modern workplace. It reveals how people naturally work best—how they communicate, lead, collaborate, adapt, and grow—and helps align their natural tendencies with the demands of their specific roles. And because… Read More »How the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Unlocks Performance at Every Stage of the Employee Lifecycle

How Self-Led Personality Insights Boost Engagement and Retention at Scale—Without Adding to HR’s Workload

How Self-Led Personality Insights Boost Engagement and Retention at Scale—Without Adding to HR’s Workload

Employee engagement is one of today’s biggest business challenges. Turnover is costly. Burnout is widespread. And people are craving more meaningful work. Managers and HR leaders want to support employees better, but launching yet another program is an unlikely solution. What often gets overlooked is that disengagement doesn’t start with workload or lack of recognition. More often, it begins when employees don’t understand how they naturally work best, or how to apply that knowledge in their roles. Engagement Starts with Employees Knowing Themselves When personality differences go unrecognized, friction builds. People get placed in roles that do battle with their… Read More »How Self-Led Personality Insights Boost Engagement and Retention at Scale—Without Adding to HR’s Workload

Why Aligning Employee Strengths to Roles Unlocks More Than Training Alone

Why Aligning Employee Strengths to Roles Unlocks More Than Training Alone

Every year, organizations spend billions on training and development programs hoping to fix “people problems.” But if someone’s role works against their natural strengths, all the workshops and coaching in the world won’t change the outcome. Instead of unlocking engagement, you get: Short-lived performance spikes that fade within weeks. Frustrated employees who feel like they’re swimming against the current. Burned-out managers still searching for solutions. It’s not that your training isn’t working, it’s that you may be missing the piece that makes it truly transformative: starting with people’s natural strengths. Let me give you a common example. The Story You… Read More »Why Aligning Employee Strengths to Roles Unlocks More Than Training Alone

Why Managers Struggle to Coach—and How Personality Insights Help Fix That

Why Managers Struggle to Coach—and How Personality Insights Help Fix That

Managers hear it all the time: You need to coach more. You need to coach better. But while many try, their efforts often fall flat. They either default to advice-giving, get stuck in surface-level conversations, or avoid it altogether, saying they don’t have the time, the skill, or the confidence to do it right. The problem isn’t that managers don’t care. It’s that most were never set up to succeed. They were promoted for being strong individual contributors and given tools for performance tracking. But tools for people development? Nothing. And they’re navigating all of this in environments that demand… Read More »Why Managers Struggle to Coach—and How Personality Insights Help Fix That

Why Self-Directed Development Works at Every Level, Not Just for Executives

In many organizations, development is still treated as a privilege for the few. Executives get leadership coaching, personality assessments, and bespoke training. Meanwhile, the rest of the workforce, the 80% who actually power your culture and customer experience, are left to figure it out on their own. That’s where disengagement, turnover, and stalled performance take root. Consider this: research from Gallup shows that 70% of team engagement is influenced by the manager. Yet today, managers are among the most disengaged employees in the workforce. When development stops at the leadership tier, you create a vacuum—managers without tools to lead effectively, employees… Read More »Why Self-Directed Development Works at Every Level, Not Just for Executives

The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®: What It Is and Why It Works

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HR leaders are under growing pressure to reduce turnover, support managers at every level, and drive business impact through people, often with limited headcount or bandwidth. Traditional personality assessments don’t scale, and they rarely deliver actionable insight across the organization. The WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is different. It’s a science-backed, enterprise-ready personality assessment that helps teams hire smarter, onboard faster, and develop more effectively without overloading HR. Let’s dive into what it is and why it works. What Is the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®? WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is a 15-minute personality assessment built around the Five-Factor Model, widely recognized… Read More »The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®: What It Is and Why It Works

How to Strengthen Your Team through Personality Insights: Lessons from the Five Dysfunctions & the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®

This was the team that was supposed to turn things around.  The struggling business had restructured the organization to unite several talented individuals to lead the transformation as a team. Each member brought an impressive résumé and a wealth of experience. They also had a history of working well cross-functionally.  Objectives of their new project were clearly stated, and everyone seemed to be on board with the same vision. But as their work began, something wasn’t working.  Meetings ran long. Progress was slow. People hesitated to speak up or to speak directly. Difficult topics were punted to the next week… Read More »How to Strengthen Your Team through Personality Insights: Lessons from the Five Dysfunctions & the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®

Escaping The Bear Mentality: How Self-Directed Learning Boosts Career Growth & Helps to Prevent Burnout

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Like so many people over the last few years, I recently enjoyed binge-watching the television series The Bear, a fictional dramedy that follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (played brilliantly by Jeremy Allen White), a fine-dining chef who returns home to Chicago to run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop after a personal tragedy. It has all the ingredients (pun intended) you would expect from a series that explores the artistry, pressure, culture, and personal entanglements of those building a life—and a business—inside the kitchen. Watching The Bear, I was both entertained—and a bit rattled. The heat, the chaos, the nonstop demands—those… Read More »Escaping The Bear Mentality: How Self-Directed Learning Boosts Career Growth & Helps to Prevent Burnout