Strategic Team Development, Designed With Your Leaders

We partner with HR and senior leaders to build custom team experiences around strategic thinking, execution discipline, and leading people through uncertainty. Every engagement is designed in consultation with you, shaped by your goals, and measured against what your people need to do differently.

Built in consultation with your team, not pulled from a catalog
Focus on strategic facilitation, execution, and leading through change
Clear goals, objectives, and measures defined before the work begins
Led by former VP at The Myers-Briggs Company and Head of Learning Consulting at Pearson

Nationwide Expertise Across Industries

Why Organizations Partner With OptimizeTeamwork

Most training is consumed and forgotten. We build strategic experiences that help leaders think clearly, execute with discipline, and guide teams through uncertainty — with accountability built in.

We do not deliver off-the-shelf modules. We consult with your team first, design the experience around your real objectives, and leave you with a plan your people can actually use.

Strategic Thinking

Clarify priorities, surface assumptions, and build the shared mental models leaders need to make better decisions under uncertainty.

Execution Discipline

Turn strategy into goals, objectives, and measures that teams can act on — with clear ownership and accountability at every level.

Leading Through Change

Equip leaders to guide people through uncertainty, maintain trust, and keep momentum without burning teams out.

Personal Accountability

Help individuals identify what they can influence at their level, set the right pace, and follow through on commitments.

Custom Engagements for Leaders and Teams

Designed around your strategy, your culture, and the changes your people are navigating

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Testimonials

What do Clients Say?

The Myers-Briggs® workshop delivered exactly what I needed to understand my operational approach in ways that hadn't clicked before. I gained clarity on how my personality drives my responses in challenging situations and identified the specific strengths I bring to my team's performance. Now I can monitor my reactions in real-time and make strategic adjustments to optimize outcomes.

James

Financial Services

Working with OptimizeTeamwork completely improved the effectiveness of our Clinical Ops division by changing the way our division collaborates. The team-building workshop not only helped us understand each other’s strengths and personalities, but the facilitator helped us raise real issues and gave us practical tools to build trust and handle conflict more effectively. We’ve seen a noticeable improvement in trust, morale, and employee engagement. It was one of the most valuable investments we’ve made for our people.

Sarah

Director of Clinical Pharmacology Support

The DiSC® workshop was great. Our facilitator helped us open up to each other and really share where our team communication is working well for us and where we need to consider each other’s different styles to help everyone out. I don’t think we would’ve figured some of this out as quickly without the workshop.

Mykhailo

Higher Ed

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FAQs

What is OptimizeTeamwork?

OptimizeTeamwork partners with HR and senior leaders to design custom team-development experiences. We focus on strategic facilitation, execution discipline, and leading people through uncertainty — using proven tools like DiSC, MBTI, EQ, and TKI as starting points, not endpoints.

What makes OptimizeTeamwork unique?

We do not sell off-the-shelf workshops. Every experience is built in consultation with you around your goals, your culture, and the specific changes your team is navigating. We define clear objectives and measures before the work begins.

Our founder, Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson, is a former VP at The Myers-Briggs Company and Head of Learning Consulting at Pearson. Our consultants bring decades of combined experience across Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, higher education, and small businesses.

What types of engagements do you offer?

We offer custom engagements for team building, leadership development, interpersonal skills, and strategic facilitation. Each design starts with your objectives and is tailored to your audience.

We use assessments such as DiSC, Everything DiSC®, MBTI®, EQ, 12 Driving Forces®, CliftonStrengths®, and TKI® Conflict when they serve the learning goals — never as a substitute for real strategy and follow-through.

What industries do you serve?

We have worked with Fortune 1,000 / 500 / 100 corporations, small & mid-size businesses, local, state & federal government agencies, K-12, and higher education institutions.

We have nationwide expertise across industries including:

We customize our leadership development, team building, sales training programs, and interpersonal skills workshops to your goals.

How long are your workshops?

Workshop durations vary based on your needs and the specific program:

Most workshops: Typically 2-3 hours (can be tailored to your schedule)
Leadership Development: Typically 2 - 6 hours
In-person workshops: Generally 3 - 6 hours in duration
Virtual workshops: Generally 2 - 3 hours in duration

Duration can vary greatly depending on the specific program you choose, the objectives for the program, the number of people in your group, and your needs. Let us know how we can customize your program to best suit your audience's schedules.

Can you customize the experience for our organization?

Yes. Customization is the default. We assess your learning needs, audience, and goals, then co-design the engagement with you. We can tailor the format (in-person or virtual), audience roles, group size, and learning methods to match your culture and schedule.

Are your facilitators certified?

Yes! Our team of nationwide consultants is trained and/or certified in personality, behavioral, and psychometric assessments including:

DISC, Everything DiSC®
Emotional Quotient (EQ)
Myers-Briggs® / MBTI®
12 Driving Forces® of Employee Motivation
5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®
FIRO-B® Interpersonal Needs
Strength Finders®
TKI® Conflict

OptimizeTeamwork Consultants are:

Experts in diagnosing needs and creating signature learning experiences.
Leadership experts, many with Senior-level leadership experience in corporate settings, making it easy for them to connect with managers and senior leaders.
Adult learning experts who are trained in adult learning methods including designing and delivering impactful learning experiences

Are your facilitators equipped and experienced to present to Senior Leaders?

Yes! OptimizeTeamwork Consultants:

Are leaders themselves, many with Senior-level leadership experience in corporate settings, helping them better understand leadership challenges and connect with leader audiences
Hold advanced degrees including Master's and Doctorate degrees in Leadership, Business Administration, & Organizational Behavior
Our founder, Dr. Rachel, has built and grown Learning practices as a B2B Professional Services Leader for 15 years, leading globally-distributed and cross-functional teams of 20+ people. She earned her Master's degree in Organizational Behavior & Leadership, Graduate specialty in Adult Learning Methods, and her Doctorate degree in Transformational Leadership & Change with a 3.95/4.0 GPA. She published her multi-case study doctoral dissertation evaluating the crisis for better leaders and the efficacy of leadership development programs to drive growth. For her exemplary leadership, Dr. Rachel was awarded the Catherine T. MacArthur Praxis Award. She also co-founded and was a Board Member for The Peter F. Drucker Global Leadership Society, SF chapter, promoting excellency in leadership.

Should we consider follow-up workshops?

To better apply personality insights, many organizations find value in workshops that go beyond learning your personality type or style.

We offer practical, engaging, skill-specific follow-on workshops to help your teams better apply personality in the workplace.
These workshops dive deep into key concepts like Communication, Change Management, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Innovation, and Building Trust, to name a few.

Each follow-on workshop, delivered either in-person or virtually, is an opportunity to help your team:

Re-visit the team's personality composition, unique characteristics, and challenges
Check-in on team behaviors and commitments to remain accountable
Surface specific team challenges, changes, or goals as they evolve
Build new skills and learn more about their personality and how it applies in everyday work life

What advanced workshops can we explore after an introductory session?

Following an introductory workshop to learn about your personality type or behavioral style, teams are encouraged to go deeper with our most popular application-focused workshops including:

Improving Team Communication using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Building Trust using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Enhancing Change Management using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Leading Others through Change using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Employee Engagement and Motivation using 12 Driving Forces®
Productive Conflict using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Enhancing Decision-Making using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Building Workplace Resiliency using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Innovation Styles using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
New Manager Training using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Senior Leader Development using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®
Strengthening Leadership Style & Effectiveness using DiSC® or Myers-Briggs®

How reliable and valid are the personality assessments you use?

We use the world's most recognized and respected personality, behavioral, and psychometric assessments.

For example, the MBTI® assessment has internal consistency reliabilities for its four preference scales averaging around .90 and test-retest correlations above .80 for intervals of up to 15 weeks. Additionally, substantial evidence supports its validity, as documented in four editions of the MBTI® manual (1962, 1985, 1998, 2018) and various technical supplements.
If your program will use an assessment, we would be happy to provide you with technical documentation about the assessment's reliability and validity.

What results can we expect?

Our engagements are designed to deliver measurable outcomes tied to your goals: stronger team cohesion, improved effectiveness, clearer decision-making, and better communication. We define goals, objectives, and measures before the work begins so you can track progress and hold the work accountable.