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25 Essential Construction Leaders in Florida Today
A fact-checked list of 25 construction leaders shaping Florida in 2026, from family firms in succession to statewide platforms and trade associations today.
Jonno White
Jul 621 min read


25 Influential HR & People Leaders in Ile-de-France You Should Follow on LinkedIn (2026)
By Jonno White, Leadership Consultant, Consult Clarity If you work in HR, organisational design, talent acquisition, or people leadership and you want to understand where French business culture is heading, there is one region you cannot afford to ignore: Ile-de-France. Paris and its seven surrounding departments form the most densely concentrated business ecosystem in Europe outside of London. The ANDRH, France's national HR association with more than 6,000 members, operates
Jonno White
Jul 18 min read


20 Reward and Benefits Leaders Shaping Western Australia
Last updated: June 2026 Western Australia's workforce story is unlike any other in Australia. The state's economy runs on minerals, energy and logistics at a scale that shapes pay structures across entire industries. FIFO rosters, remote site allowances, retention bonuses for hard-to-fill underground roles, and long-term incentive schemes tied to commodity cycles are not abstract HR concepts here. They are the lived reality of the people who design, govern and communicate tot
Jonno White
Jul 110 min read


What School Professional Development Costs in Australia and New Zealand (2026)
Last updated: June 2026 School professional development cost is the investment schools make in structured, ongoing learning for their teachers and leaders, and as of June 2026 it ranges from a few hundred dollars per teacher for an association-run session to AUD$15,000 or more for an external facilitator or keynote speaker for a full-day programme. Both Australia and New Zealand fund selected PD through government channels at no direct cost to schools, while market-rate provi
Jonno White
Jul 113 min read


Working Genius vs Other Assessments: Full Price Comparison (2026)
Last updated: June 2026 Working Genius is a team and individual assessment created by Patrick Lencioni of The Table Group that identifies six types of work energy, and it costs $25 per person to take. Compared with DiSC ($73.50 to $90), CliftonStrengths ($24.99 to $59.99), Kolbe A Index ($55), the Enneagram RHETI ($20) and MBTI ($50 to $100+), Working Genius sits in the lower third of the price range for leadership and team assessments as of June 2026. Only the Enneagram RHET
Jonno White
Jul 113 min read


Working Genius Certification: Is It Worth It for Australian Consultants? (2026)
Last updated: June 2026 Working Genius certification is a two-day training programme from Patrick Lencioni's The Table Group that qualifies you to deliver the Working Genius model to teams as a licensed facilitator. For Australian consultants and coaches deciding whether to invest, the answer is not universal: certification pays back quickly for those with clients ready to use it, and it delays revenue for those who buy it before they have any. This guide gives you the real c
Jonno White
Jun 3011 min read


Working Genius Assessment Cost for Australian Students (2025)
Last updated: June 2026 The Working Genius assessment is a practical online tool, developed by Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group, that helps people discover which types of work energise them and which types drain them, with a student-specific version designed for ages 14 to 20. The standard price is USD $25 per licence, which converts to approximately AUD $36 to $37 at current exchange rates, as of June 2025. For Australian schools purchasing in bulk, volume discounts brin
Jonno White
Jun 3010 min read


25 Influential Leaders in Ireland You Should Be Following on LinkedIn (2026)
Last updated: June 2026 The most active, visible, and substantive Irish leadership voices on LinkedIn in 2026 span business, government, innovation, social enterprise, sustainability, and the arts. As of June 2026, Ireland holds the EU Council Presidency and ranks first globally in the International Monetary Fund's AI readiness index, and the leaders on this list are at the centre of those conversations. This is a compiled directory of 25 people whose LinkedIn presence is act
Jonno White
Jun 3020 min read


25 Proven Tips for Using Working Genius for Staff Professional Development
Last updated: June 2026 Working Genius for staff professional development is a facilitated experience, built on Patrick Lencioni's Table Group model, that replaces generic one-size-fits-all PD with a session grounded in how each person is actually wired to contribute. As of June 2026, global employee engagement has fallen to 20%, its lowest point since 2020, costing organisations an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity (Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026). Most
Jonno White
Jun 2816 min read


5 School PD Speakers for Leadership in Queensland (2026)
Last updated: June 2026 School PD speakers for leadership in Queensland are professionals who design and deliver professional development sessions specifically for school leadership teams, principals, and middle leaders, helping schools build stronger cultures, clearer team dynamics, and more sustainable leadership practice. Queensland, with 1,266 state schools and 550 independent and Catholic schools serving over 885,000 students as of 2026 (Queensland Department of Educatio
Jonno White
Jun 2811 min read


How to Run an Executive Team Offsite When You Have Multiple New Exec Team Members
Last updated: June 2026 When an executive team has multiple new members, the offsite that worked last year will not work this year. The agenda needs to be resequenced, the objectives need to be reframed, and the pre-work needs to be redesigned. Trust-building comes before strategy. Foundation comes before execution. Getting this right is not complicated, but it requires the courage to resist the temptation to run the same session you ran when the team was stable. As of June 2
Jonno White
Jun 2818 min read


18 Influential HR Leaders in Higher Education Globally
Last updated: June 2026 The most influential HR leaders in higher education right now are the practitioners actually sitting inside universities and colleges around the world, navigating the particular complexity that no general HR textbook adequately covers. As of June 2026, the people reshaping how universities attract, develop, and retain their people span the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada. What they share is a recognition that the people functio
Jonno White
Jun 2822 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Connecticut Right Now
If you have ever sat through a team meeting where everyone nods but nothing changes, Working Genius might be the framework that finally explains why. The model was created by Patrick Lencioni to identify the six types of work that drive productivity, and more importantly, to name which types drain energy from your people. Talented individuals stall when they are stuck doing work that exhausts them, no matter how capable they are on paper. A Working Genius facilitator brings
Jonno White
Jun 2518 min read


Working Genius Facilitators for Massachusetts Teams
A practical guide to finding a Working Genius facilitator for a Massachusetts team, including local and virtual routes and practical vetting questions.
Jonno White
Jun 257 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in California You Should Know
If your leadership team has the talent on paper but nothing seems to stick after your meetings, the problem is not your people. The problem is that you are asking your Invention thinker to execute detailed project plans, your Discernment leader to drive the timeline, and your Wonder person to close out tasks they never wanted to own. You have been treating talent as interchangeable. It is not. Patrick Lencioni created the Working Genius framework to name the six types of wo
Jonno White
Jun 2525 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Washington State
If your leadership team is talented individually but dysfunctional together, the Working Genius model holds the answer. I have watched this pattern play out in boardrooms and staff meetings across Washington State for years. The people are capable. The strategy is clear. But execution stalls, meetings produce no real decisions, and the team burns energy without forward movement. Most leaders assume the problem is motivation or alignment. It is not. It is about how the six t
Jonno White
Jun 2516 min read


30 Working Genius Facilitators in Dallas Worth Booking
If you have ever wondered why your leadership team nods in meetings but delivers nothing afterwards, the Working Genius framework holds the answer. Patrick Lencioni created the Working Genius model to name the six types of work that exist inside every project, every initiative, and every strategic plan. Each person on your team naturally energises in two of these areas and drains in the others. When you understand who thrives in Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanising,
Jonno White
Jun 2522 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Texas Worth Booking
If you have ever wondered why some teams nod through a Working Genius workshop and then go back to the same patterns three weeks later, the problem is usually not the model. The problem is the facilitator. A Working Genius session without the right facilitator becomes an expensive personality test. You get six letters per person. You get a debrief conversation. You get a report that sits in someone's inbox. What you do not get is the thing you actually need, which is a lead
Jonno White
Jun 2527 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Chicago Worth Booking
If you have ever sat through a team offsite where everyone nodded along, only to watch the same dysfunctions play out three months later, you already know the problem. Insight without implementation is just expensive conversation. Your leadership team is not missing intelligence. They are missing alignment around who does what naturally, who drains energy doing work they were never built for, and why the talented people on paper cannot seem to execute together. the Working
Jonno White
Jun 2534 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Illinois Worth Knowing
If you lead a team in Illinois and you know something is off, Working Genius might be the framework that finally names it. Your leadership team is talented. The org chart looks right. The strategy document exists. And yet meetings drift, decisions get revisited, and the same three people carry most of the execution load while everyone else nods politely. You have tried offsites. You have tried team-building days. Three months later it feels like none of it happened. Worki
Jonno White
Jun 2520 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Atlanta Worth Booking
If you have ever tried to book a facilitator for your leadership team and ended up with someone who ran a session that felt good in the moment but changed nothing by the following quarter, you already know the problem. The Working Genius model holds real power when the facilitator understands how to use it beyond the assessment itself. Most teams do not need another personality inventory. They need someone who can name the patterns breaking alignment, show them where energy
Jonno White
Jun 2519 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Austin
If you have ever wondered why your talented leadership team keeps producing underwhelming results, the Working Genius framework might hold the answer. Patrick Lencioni created the Working Genius model to help teams understand the six types of work that drive productivity and the reality that each person is naturally gifted in only two. When you pair people with work that matches their genius, energy rises. When you force them into work that drains them, even your best hires
Jonno White
Jun 2513 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in Houston Teams Trust
If your leadership team nods during strategy sessions but nothing shifts when everyone returns to their desks, the problem is not your strategy. The problem is that you are asking people to execute work their brains are not wired to do. Working Genius reveals which types of work energise each person on your team and which types drain them. When a facilitator uses the model well, the team stops pretending alignment exists and starts building the kind of clarity that produces
Jonno White
Jun 2518 min read


25 Working Genius Facilitators in New York City
If you have ever sat through an offsite where the energy was high, the flip charts were full, and three months later it was like the session never happened, you already know the problem. The session was not designed for what happens after everyone leaves the room. You got alignment theatre instead of real change. Your team walked out nodding but nobody changed how they actually spend their Tuesday mornings. Working Genius changes that pattern because it does not just diag
Jonno White
Jun 2511 min read
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