THE CONSULTING OFFICE WORKSHOP SERIES
Professional development has arrived in Orléans
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SERIES
Three workshops. One progession. Built for your business.
Orléans small business owners have long had to drive downtown - or skip professional development entirely - because nothing exists nearby. The Consulting Office Workshop Series changes that.
This is a structured, evidence-based curriculum grounded in Gallup’s CliftonStrengths research. Gallup’s findings are consistent: people who work from their strengths show measurably higher profitability, stronger employee engagement, significantly reduced turnover and higher productivity.
Great business owners never stop growing. This series is for you.
“This series is for Orléans small business owners at any stage of their business who want to understand what they are uniquely built to do - and build their business strategy around it.”
THE THREE WORKSHOPS
Discover. Apply. Lead.
Each workshop builds on the last. Workshops 1 and 2 run one week apart. Workshop 3 follows two weeks later.
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The Owner: Understanding what you are uniquely built to do.
You will leave with a clear picture of your Top 5 CliftonStrengths and a language for how they show up in your business.
Date: June 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Orléans
Price: $129 — all Workshop 1 registrations
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The Business: Applying your strengths to strategy and decisions.
Map your strengths to how you sell, operate, and lead. Identify where you have natural advantage and where you have been working against your own wiring.
Date: June 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Orléans
Price: $149
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The Future: Team, strategy, and building what comes next.
Integrate strengths into your business plan, your team structure, and your long-term strategy. Build a leadership approach that works with how your people are wired.
Date: July 2026
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Orléans
Price: $149
SERIES BUNDLE
The complete Workshop Series - all three sessions for one price.
Register for the full series and lock in your spot across all three workshops. The bundle is the best way to experience the full progression from self-discovery through business strategy to leadership and team development.
Includes:
Workshop 1: Know Your Strengths
Workshop 2: Strengths at Work
Workshop 3: Lead With Strengths
CliftonStrengths Top 5 assessment
All session materials and light refreshments
$369 - Save $58 versus individual session pricing
SESSION DETAIL
What happens in each workshop? Here’s exactly what to expect.
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Two hours. Practical tools. Real work.
Pre-work required: Your CliftonStrengths Top 5 assessment. Your access code and a one-page primer from Lisa are provided upon registration, 5 to 7 days before the session. Included in your registration fee.
0:00 — Welcome and Framing
Why this series exists. Why strengths is not a personality test.
0:15 — Name It
Your Top 5 in plain language. What they mean for how you work.
0:40 — Claim It
Where your strengths are already showing up in your business.
1:00 — Strengths in Full Power
Understanding how to apply your strengths at their highest level..
1:20 — Structured Reflection
Individual journaling with two focused prompts.
1:40 — What Comes Next
Preview of Workshop 2.
1:50 — Close and Commitment
One clear intention you take into your week.
You leave with:
Personal strengths one-pager
Journal prompt card
A clear next step grounded in your strengths
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Two hours. Your strengths applied to your business.
Pre-work required: Bring your Workshop 1 journal card. Come with one business challenge you are currently working on. That challenge becomes the working material for the session.
0:00 — Reconnect
What shifted after Workshop 1? What did you notice in your business?
0:15 — Strengths and Business Functions
Where your profile gives you natural advantage and where you are forcing it.
0:45 — The Stuck Challenge
Pairs work: apply a strengths lens to the real business challenge you brought today.
1:10 — Strategic Stop-Doing
What to delegate, partner on, or drop based on your profile.
1:30 — Structured Reflection
Your business through a strengths lens. What changes?
1:45 — What Comes Next
Preview of Workshop 3.
1:55 — Close and Decision
One decision you will make differently this week.
You leave with:
Strengths and business function mapping worksheet
Updated journal card
One clear business decision
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Two hours. Your strengths applied to your team and your future.
Pre-work encouraged: Share the CliftonStrengths assessment with one team member, contractor, or key collaborator before Workshop 3. Bring their results. Optional but powerful.
0:00 — Reconnect
What has changed in your business since Workshop 1? Full series check-in.
0:15 — Seeing Strengths in Others
How to spot natural talent patterns in the people around you.
0:40 — Strengths-Based Delegation
Stop assigning tasks. Start matching work to wiring.
1:05 — The Hard Conversations
How strengths language changes feedback and accountability.
1:30 — Structured Reflection
Your leadership style and your team's needs. Where is the gap?
1:45 — The Full Arc
Where you started in Workshop 1 and where you are now.
1:55 — What Comes Next
Pathways into individual coaching and consulting with The Consulting Office.
You leave with:
Session notes and next steps
Pathway options for continued work with The Consulting Office
YOUR FACILITATOR
Lisa Cruickshank
Founder |The Consulting Office
In 2013 Lisa Cruickshank moved her family to Orléans and opened her second insurance agency here. Her 35+ year career - spent entirely within the same organization, moving between insurance agency ownership and executive level corporate leadership - gives her a perspective that is rare: she has sat in the small business owner's chair and the boardroom chair, and she knows exactly what each one looks like from the other side. This community became home and she has been invested in it in every way that matters ever since.
She is a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, the 2016 Orléans Business Person of the Year, and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award, the House of Commons Leading Women Award, and the Ontario 150 Community Builder Award. During the pandemic she facilitated $80,000 in grant funding directly to Orléans small businesses.
Her community roots run deep. She served on the Board of Directors of the Orléans Chamber of Commerce. She chaired the Board at Arts Network Ottawa, operating out of the Shenkman Arts Centre. She mentored small business owners through Invest Ottawa's Starter Company Plus program with a 100% grant success rate. And since the year she arrived in Orléans, she has volunteered with the Terry Fox Run committee - year after year, without exception.
She is a business leader, a community builder, a wife, and most importantly, a mom and grandma. She built The Consulting Office to bring professional development to the Orléans small business community - because for Lisa, this is home.
RESERVE YOUR SEAT
Ready to get started?
Monday mornings · June and July 2026 · Orléans
9:00 to 11:00 AM · Maximum 16 participants
Your registration includes your CliftonStrengths Top 5 access code, a pre-session primer from Lisa, all session materials, and light refreshments.
Attending all three workshops?
Register for the bundle and save $68.