I recently became a Certified Working Genius Facilitator, and I’m excited to bring this framework into my work with individuals, leaders, and teams. The Working Genius model offers a simple and practical way to understand where people naturally find joy, energy and fulfillment in their work, where they experience frustration and drain, and how work can move more smoothly when we better understand ourselves and each other. I wanted to share a bit more about why I took the assessment, what I learned, and how I see it supporting the work I already do through Simple North.
1) Why I took the Working Genius Assessment
I took the Working Genius assessment because I’m deeply motivated by understanding how people find flow — including myself. As someone with ADHD, I’ve always noticed a sharp contrast between the work that lights me up and the work that drains me. Discovering that my geniuses are Invention and Discernment made immediate sense: I love brainstorming, generating possibilities, evaluating options, and finding the most effective path forward. Those are the moments when I feel fully engaged and at my best.
I pursued facilitator training because I want to bring more of my own strengths into my work and help others do the same. Working Genius is 20% personality and 80% productivity, which aligns beautifully with my background in project management, productivity coaching, and team development.
2) What this will do for my time with clients
Working Genius gives me a simple, practical, and deeply accurate framework to help clients understand why certain work energizes them and other work exhausts them. Any project or activity follows a linear progression from start to finish — ideation, activation, and implementation. The Working Genius framework lets us map our strengths directly onto the stages of work and redesign roles, workflows, and expectations in ways that reduce friction and increase momentum.
For teams, it becomes a shared language that cuts through confusion and helps them collaborate more effectively. For individuals, it becomes a roadmap for working in alignment with what fuels them. For me as a facilitator, it adds a powerful tool that integrates seamlessly with the strategic planning, productivity, and leadership work I already do.
3) What benefits others will gain from taking the assessment
People gain three big things from Working Genius:
Clarity — They finally understand why certain tasks feel effortless and even energizing, while and others feel like wading through mud.
Permission — They realize their frustrations aren’t flaws; they’re simply mismatches between their wiring and the work they’re being asked to do.
Practicality — They walk away with concrete ways to shift their work, communicate their needs, and collaborate more effectively.
It’s one of the few assessments that immediately translates into better meetings, smoother projects, and more energized and fulfilled teams.
4) Something that surprised me and felt like true alignment
Two things stood out immediately:
Discovering that Galvanizing is in my frustration zone. I’ve always known that rallying people or “selling” an idea drains me, but seeing it named so clearly felt like a deep exhale. It explained so much about the parts of work that feel heavy for me.
The altitude model. The idea that each genius operates at a different “altitude” — from bigpicture wonder to groundlevel tenacity — instantly clicked. It explains why meetings can feel turbulent when people are operating from different altitudes without realizing it. That insight alone has already changed how I think about team dynamics.
For me, Working Genius feels like a natural extension of the work I already love: helping people understand how they work best and build more sustainable ways of working together. Whether I’m supporting an individual, facilitating a team conversation, or helping an organization think through workflow, this framework gives us practical language for something many people feel but can’t always name. My hope is that it helps people experience more ease, energy, and effectiveness in the work that matters most.
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