Testimonials
True stories of transformation from individuals and teams.
Through a focus on individual strengths, I help businesses build high-performing, rock-solid teams — but hey, don’t take my word for it. Explore these stories from standout players on industry-leading teams.
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“Alice helped me immensely to realize what barriers I was personally holding up against myself that are preventing me from being confident in the workplace. It was immensely valuable for showing how I can improve my professional life and my personal life as well. She was supportive, but also challenged me to question what is holding me back and why. This was a great experience and I would recommend it to everyone.”
- Kylie Kreitz, DEI Assistant at Debevoise & Plimpton LLC
“Alice was an amazing coach. I feel that CliftonStrengths will really add to my skills as a leader going forward!”
- Ely Juarez, VP Deputy General Counsel, Corporate, Product, Commercial and Privacy
“Alice was great. Very knowledgeable and clearly made an effort to know us as a team and individually.”
- Tonya Easterling, Employee Relations Specialist
“Alice’s workshop was engaging, knowledgeable, personable, and encouraging.”
- Brandye Williams, Litigation Paralegal
“Alice is phenomenal. She learned about our team so deeply and with care. It made for a deeply tailored and engaging experience for the team.”
- Kristina Pham, Director of Legal
“I would highly recommend Alice as a facilitator. Her approach is kind, enthusiastic, fun, and inquisitive. I learned a lot about how to work better with my team and about myself.”
-Alexandra Burrows, PR and Communications Manager
“Alice is the only one I ever would want to learn this stuff about. She was so inclusive and wonderful.”
- Julia Smyth, Strategic Sales and Activation Specialist
“Investing in this program is a valuable and actionable way to strengthen your team.”
- Katherine Malekos, Social Media Manager
”Alice was a breath of fresh air, taking a topic I thought I knew a lot about and presenting a fresh new take on the content.”
- Claire Nichol Anderson, Senior Marketing Manager
“Alice was able to bring our new team together to discover our strengths and build a more powerful group.”
- Trevor T’úýtemken Ellestad Van Somer, Director of PR, Communications, and Social Media
“I have worked with Alice twice now and both times she understood the team’s needs and curated an experience that functioned for the varying levels and development experience. I will continue to reach out to her for more coaching and development.”
-Kelsey Mulyk, CMO
“Alice was an incredibly thoughtful and influential facilitator with a deep understanding of StrengthsFinder. She framed the session in an engaging way that allowed everyone to absorb the information as well as shared ways on how to put the information into practice as a team. She showed an enormous amount of care in aligning to our desired outcomes and an incredible level of attention to detail to create an impactful workshop. The resounding feedback from numerous members of the team was that her workshop was their highlight from our offsite!”
- Katie So’oto, Senior Executive Assistant to CRO and Head of Marketing
“CliftonStrengths was an awesome way to get to know not only my teammates—but myself—better. Highly recommend, especially for smaller scrappier teams.”
- Brett Stanton, Communications Associate
“Thank you Alice for facilitating an excellent workshop last week. The team absolutely loved your energy, agenda, and the discussion you facilitated and couldn't stop talking about certain aspects throughout the week. I'm so appreciative of the time and care you put into making our workshop productive. You were so on top of everything and I'm grateful we were able to work together.”
- Ashlee Holdgrafer, Chief of Staff to the CCO, Bolt
“Alice's private and group workshops have helped me identify some of the blindspots of my strengths, and helped prevent me from saying "yes" to too many things and then becoming burned out. I learned about how I apply my maximizer strength when leading people, and choose to work with their strengths.. Alice provided valuable, time effective coaching and I'd absolutely recommend her services to other companies.”
-Aaron Koenig, Director of Platform Services, Unbounce
“Alice brings an energy and knowledge about the CliftonStrengths which I found so impressive! I learned a lot from her being a new manager, but experienced managers could still learn loads.”
-Sam Goulden, Team Lead, Unbounce
“When I heard about CliftonStrengths, I must admit I was skeptical at first. But when I saw the results, I was totally blown away! It helped our team visualize where our strengths and weaknesses were in a way that I never thought possible. Alice Ko at Reframed Coaching was an absolute pleasure to work with! She made the process of identifying each of our Clifton Strengths a fun and exciting journey. She was very patient and flexible as we worked through the process together. I would highly recommend her services to anyone looking to build high performance teams!”
-Paul Yacoubian, Founder and CEO, copy.ai
“Knowing our entire team’s Strengths has improved our team-wide communication and empathy across the team!”
- Chris Lu, Co-founder, copy,ai
“One of the best parts of being at this company was learning about CliftonStrengths. Alice is awesome. She helped me unlock things I didn’t even think about before.”
- Anonymous
“Alice facilitated a fantastic strengths session. The workshop gave me the language to recognize and utilize my strengths, and understand how to best work with my team. 110% recommend!”
- Monique Hooley, Head of Cell Biology
“It was great working with Alice, she brings great drive to make get the most out of a session and is a real ambassador for Clifton Strengths. The sessions with Alice triggered lots of meaningful discussions in our team and brought the team closer together. Thank you!.”
- Vidar van der Meijden, Head of Product
“Alice is extremely thoughtful and has a deep understanding of this framework. She creates a safe environment where I felt comfortable learning and being vulnerable.”
- Emily Gale, Director of Materials Science
"I'm not sure how fast-growing organizations try to keep up without the expertise of people like Alice and Bonnie. If you, your teams, and your company don't have the building blocks right, don't have a common language to communicate the tough stuff and to solve problems together then the big hairy audacious goals you are chasing down will always be out of reach because the friction in trying to reach them -- of people talking past each other instead of with -- will distract from the main outcome."
- Megan Niedermeyer, VP Legal, Fivetran
You will be surprised at the valuable insights generated from such a minimal time commitment. Definitely one of the better team attribute exercises I've participated in during my career.”
-Joe Minutoli, Vice President, Commercial Legal; Deputy General Counsel, Fivetran
“CliftonStrengths is by far the most accurate and useful personality assessment I've taken. I love that it's practical.”
- Seth Batey, Senior Privacy and Product Counsel, Fivetran
“This helped me tremendously understand about what motivates and energizes my colleagues. This also helped me gain a sense of where support and guidance to my peers may be warmly welcomed (or not) based on their Strengths.”
-Devin Barry, VP of Revenue, NA Commercial and APAC, Fivetran
"It was really great to have experts leading the workshop. Having additional knowledge and information to answer questions was priceless. Alice and Bonnie did a very great job on making the workshop interactive and involved, virtually and in person.”
-Michael Nielsen, Deal Desk Analyst, Fivetran
"I enjoyed how dynamic the workshop was! I enjoyed the small group-breakouts and individualized approach. There was lots of sharing, lots of listening and the workshop was well organized and structured. It was very , very respectful and I feel closer with and know more about my teammates. I feel inspired, motivated and happy I joined this team."
- Robert Graham, Senior Counsel, Fivetran
“Overall, I really enjoyed learning about my own strengths and those of others on the team. I especially appreciate that everything taught is a strength and not framed as weaknesses. Excellent facilitation and guidance from Alice and Bonnie. Thank you so much!"
- Dawn Howard, Head of Global Deal Desk, Fivetran
"CliftonStrengths was a real eye opener! The insights from the workshop were interesting at a group level to see the differences between the two leadership teams."
-Joseph deBunza, VP Enterprise Products, Fivetran
"The workshop was great. It was interactive and we learned a lot through the small group activities about each other. CliftonStrengths is new to me and I find it very insightful."
- Chris Lawless, VP Global Services, Fivetran
“I enjoyed the use of the survey data shared in the workshop and learning how the research could teach us how to use Strengths framework in real life scenarios.”
- Mike Boyarski, VP Marketing, Fivetran
"I loved how this workshop got all our executives thinking about our own natural strengths and each other's strengths. I appreciate all the preparation that went into this workshop."
- Taylor Brown, Co-founder and COO, Fivetran
“I enjoyed the emphasis on our Strengths rather than our weaknesses, and learning about our Strengths Overdrive."
- Anthony Brooks-Wiliams, CEO, HVR Software (acquired by Fivetran)
Strengths is an incredible multi-dimensional framework that allows folks to have a shared language for building communication and relationships. I love using it!”
- Jacqueline Cuevas, Legal Operations Manager, Fivetran
“Alice was a great guide on how we can use our strengths to work better as a team and as an individual. This experience has made me more aware of myself already and I intend to dive deeper into knowing more about my strengths.”
-Paris Amory, Marketing Co-ordinator, Commit
“Alice was great! She provided a safe place for everyone to share their thoughts and led the session very cheerfully and positively.”
- Rammeya J, Community Engineer, Commit
“Alice brought amazing energy and valuable insights to our Strengths sessions! She was able to engage everyone on our leadership team and framed her insights in a way that empowered and inspired.”
-Tiffany Jung, COO, Commit
“Alice has an innate, God-given talent for Strengths coaching! I know she’ll bring immense value to companies, just like you did for us. I still reap the benefits of your Strengths workshop a year later. You gave us a unique and custom analysis of our team’s strengths. The outcomes of your workshop influence our decisions in hiring, staffing, and resource development to this day!”
- Olivia Wong, Senior Partner, Prototype Thinking Labs
“Thank you for walking my co-founders and I through Strengths so that we can lead Every.org better!”
- Tina Roh, Co-founder and COO, Every.org
“This was the best use of 90 mins in the past 18 months! Thank you SO much for an enlightening experience. I already found CliftonStrengths to be impactful as an individual, but bringing them together as a group takes things to a whole new level. And the facilitation of understanding is a game changer .... I think there will be a lot of power in the empathy and shared awareness that comes out of this session. Incredibly well organized and executed. I enjoyed the moments for reflection and discussion, and facilitation of understanding by Alice ... the ability to really question what does this mean? How do I use this?, and talk through it.”
-Jay DiPietro, COO, The Ricciardi Group
“I see myself and my team in a whole new light - one of even more possibility (and we were already well equipped with a positive mindset) because you now have a clear set of tools and structure on how to work well with one another and play to strengths. Alice you kept the conversation and inputs flowing which is no small feat in a virtual setting. I loved everything within the context of the team - the breakout of top 10 and all 34 to see where there are gaps. I loved having the opportunity to hear my colleagues explain their observations about their strengths and weaknesses.”
- Anonymous, The Ricciardi Group
“I really enjoyed seeing the full team's traits mapped out in several different views. Helpful in future resource planning.”
-Anonymous, The Ricciardi Group
“Thanks Alice! You are definitely very knowledgeable about this topic, and love how you were able to pick and choose specific examples within our team (not just generically speaking, but using people in our team as example). I think that's super helpful for us. I enjoyed seeing the combinations of strengths of our teammates, seeing the gaps of the team, and how we can work off each other. It reinforced what I know about myself. “
- Anonymous, Government of Canada, ESDC Department
“Alice has a wonderfully positive delivery style, exuding excitement for the content and knowledge she shares.”
-Anonymous, Government of Canada, ESDC Department
“Alice is a natural at facilitation and clearly loves what she is doing: this was infectious. I've been in virtual sessions where there is little engagement, so I'm happy to say this was a fun and insightful two hour workshop :) .”
- Anonymous, Government of Canada, ESDC Department
“I loved how interactive the workshops were and I also loved learning about my co-workers strengths. This framework just confirmed how I function as an employee and that the strengths can be applied to my personal life as well.”
- Anonymous, Capilano University, Services Department
“Alice is a strong facilitator who creates a very safe space.” The Strengths training was a valuable exercise both as a team, and for personal growth as a manager.”
-Jinny Wu, Director of Marketing and Communications, Innovate BC
“I absolutely loved going through the process of learning about my strengths, how to use them to advance my career, and how to maximize my relationships at work.”
-Fernanda Whitaker, Director of Partnerships, Innovate BC
“Alice was an awesome facilitator! Strengths are a great tool when used in combination with team dynamics, structure and style. They may seem ambigious but when used to strengthen teams and the ways people work together, it’s very useful!”
-Radwa Saad, Director of Data, Policy and Programs, Innovate BC
“I 100% recommend this workshop! It’s helped our team learn so much and appreciate each other’s unique strengths.”
-Tomica Divic, Vice President of Operations, Innovate BC
“I’m genuinely so grateful for the opportunity to have reflected and learned with Alice. It could not have come at a better time for me in my work and has also led to more awareness and change in other areas of my life.”
- Maggie Chan, Program Manager, Tech Adoption, Innovate BC
”This was a very valuable experience both professionally and personally. Take your time and enjoy every minute of it! Definitely invest as much time as you can preparing for your in-person session.”
-Shelley Luther, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“Alice is a powerhouse of insights. The workshop was fun, engaging, and full of actionable data. Super recommended.”
-Tatiana Giberson, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“Alice’s coaching style and subject knowledge is a game changer. Learning about my Strengths and those of my team was so powerful. This increased knowledge of how to best work together and collaborate with each other will ensure our own personal success and that of the company.”
-Toni Scott, CFO, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“Alice is an excellent facilitator! It was a gift to take the time to get to know each other better, and learn how we can maximize our potential.”
- Melissa Irvine, Co-Founder, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“Our workshop was really eye-opening and helpful to build a deeper awareness of our team and come up with actionable commitments on how to leverage and complement each other’s strengths!”
- Nicole Oliver, Co-Founder, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“Alice is extremely well-versed in CliftonStrengths and provided a ton of insights and exercises for our team to work on in our session and in the future. She also took the time to curate a really unique team experience for us.”
- Kelsey Mulyk, Co-Founder, Mom 'n' Pop Shop
“This workshop really uncovered the blank spots in our team and gave us a higher level of communication and action plan to walk away with.”
-Nancy Richardson, Co-Founder, Mom 'n' Pop Shop + Author of Work Freely
"Learning about my individual strengths and how to identify them in action has had a big impact on my life. It was so eye-opening to understand opportunities for personal growth and how to be aware of the shadow sides of strengths when communicating and working with others.
Alice has a true passion of embracing an individual’s natural strengths and the positive impact it can have for both professional teams and personally. She has an incredible ability not only to identify strengths in practice, but also to coach others on how to use and develop their strengths to improve communication, self-awareness, resource planning and performance.
I would highly recommend CliftonStrengths® coaching from Alice, I feel so much more confident and aware of how I can add value to my team and other relationships now.”
– Jendi Logan, Brand and Website Manager at Procurify
"I had the privilege of attending one of Alice’s CliftonStrengths® workshops and was blown away by her knowledge, professionalism and seamless group facilitation...I left the session feeling more connected to my team and with an increased self awareness of how I function as an individual and work with others. Alice did an incredible job of creating a safe space for us to open up and learn which allowed my team and I to walk away with clear deliverables and action items. Alice’s passion for supporting others is palpable and I would highly recommend attending one of her workshops!"
– Nicole Kinney, Head of People, Procurify
“Alice successfully brought the CliftonStrengths® framework into the company to improve engagement, team member development, and team building. It is a privilege to work with her.”
– Christina Ellwood, CMO, Procurify
“I worked with Alice as a strengths coach within our team over the past year. Her in depth understanding of people strengths and how that ties into the teams was impactful and utilized within all the teams she worked with. Alice is such a humble and incredible person - I've never worked with someone who was able to understand situations (and people!) so effortlessly, and how to move things forward in the best way. As someone who appreciates collaboration and getting things done, it was a dream to work with Alice. Having her energy and the ability to launch things, and explain things to people and get buy in from all parties was something I sincerely admired and appreciated. Anyone would be lucky to work with Alice!”
– Meghan Fisher, Leadership Operations at Procurify
“Alice is such a fantastic and knowledgeable CliftonStrengths® consultant. During her workshop, she helped guide our team through our individual assessments and effectively pinpointed the complementary Strengths we had to drive our team towards success. I would recommend her workshops for any corporate or team bonding event!”
– Jenn Xu, Marketing Associate, Podyssey
“Alice's CliftonStrengths® workshop was the most valuable team building exercise we've done so far (even better than Myers Briggs!) This workshop truly helped with team bonding and helped us learn how to work with each other as we can now understand each other’s different working style and preferences. Personally, I now use the framework to coach new employees. My team members and I have become more self aware, and it gave us a language to help resolve team conflicts.”
– Melody Ma, Co-founder of Podysssey
“Alice's knowledge and enthusiasm for the Strengths-based framework led my team and I to not only understand and articulate our own strengths, but also understand each other better.Her coaching allowed us to apply this knowledge to resource our projects in the most effective ways, and helped us discover the best path to growth both as individuals and as a team.Personally, her guidance has allowed me to identify the areas and situations that I thrive in — offering a huge sense of clarity in where I am happiest and most valuable on teams.Her friendly approach, matched with her incredible knowledge, created workshops that were equally as enjoyable as they were valuable. I would recommend Alice to any individual or company that is looking to better understand their strengths and how to use them to grow personally and professionally.”
– Jenna Sargent, Producer at DoubleUp
"Alice’s workshops have given our team a new framework for collaborating that empowers everyones natural strengths, and we’re a more efficient and thoughtful group because of it."
– Derek Pym, Partner at DoubleUp
“Thank you Alice for all your coaching. It’s been extraordinarily valuable to us, and continues to inspire and pay dividends in the team and how we work together.”
– Aidan Hornsby, Founder of DoubleUp
“Some of the most productive meetings I’ve ever experienced was Alice’s CliftonStrength workshops. They’re seriously packed with value, insights, and tangible learnings that compound over time. Her workshops help you better understand yourself and your team dynamic. I’ve used the insights to create stronger connections with all my teammates and develop new partnerships that benefit our working style and efficiency. Alice is enthusiastic, passionate, and patient. She takes the time to understand you as an individual but also brings ideas high-level to show you how it all fits together. I highly recommend Alice’s workshop to any team looking to improve culture, efficiency and working style (start-ups, agencies, executives, etc).”
– Armon Arani, Senior Growth Marketer at DoubleUp
"Alice is one of the most thoughtful trainers I’ve worked with. She took the time to understand our team and each individual and included that data in our training. It really felt made for us which I appreciate."
-Roger Nairn, CEO, JAR Audio
Understanding peoples' strengths help you keep your workplace productive and positive, while also teaching you to recognize potential pitfalls and blindspots. This workshop was a great way to "lift the hood" on my colleagues and get a better sense of them as people."
- Jennifer Moss, Chief Creative Officer, JAR Audio
“Because of Alice’s workshop, I can now no longer have a work meeting without thinking about my Strengths and my team members Strengths. I now see how everybody’s Strengths play out at work. It’s pretty amazing. I love people management so much and now I finally understand why after seeing that all my top strengths are in the yellow “influencing” space”
– América Turner, Head of Operations, JAR Audio
"The Strengths workshops led by Alice was extremely insightful and valuable for my team. Everyone learnt about their own unique strengths, how to leverage them and what their blindspots were. It was interactive and I saw some light bulb moments happening. Everyone afterwards was very appreciative of the workshop and said they learnt about themselves. It was also incredibly useful for me in understanding each person's work style and behaviour at work, and how to best leverage their strengths. Highly recommended it for any teams and managers."
– Alina Anghel, Founder of Pursuit Marketing
“At first I was skeptical of CliftonStrengths®, but the results immediately changed my life. I never realized that my third strength, Competition, should be something that I embrace and manage professionally. Alice’s workshop also made me realize that my strengths make me quite unique in the workplace, and that I should treat my colleagues with more empathy once I knew theirs. I literally talk about Strengths every single day.”
- Luc Doucet, Founder of The First Mint
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"The most valuable thing I learned from Alice’s workshop is that people do not know how to use their strengths correctly. Because of this, sometimes our strengths can create more harm than good for the people around us that we work with. This workshop gave me practical strategies that I can use to avoid some of the harmful blank spots. I am happy that I did the workshop and I would recommend this to people who want to become more effective and successful at what they do.”
– Robert Meng Lee
“These coaching sessions from Alice were singlehandedly, part of the most life changing experiences I’ve had.
She helped me unpack strengths as a way to efficiently move through lack of clarity and a path forward to help with breakthroughs.”
— Anna Hon Tsang, Head of International Business Strategy at Apple
“Throughout our sessions, I've had many aha! moments in my conversations with Alice as she has a way of reflecting back my preconceptions to help me. Alice provided supporting tools and materials that reinforce what I've learned…I really can't thank you enough. I feel like I've gone through a gamut of emotions and having our last session coincide with my one year anniversary at work really helped to solidify what I want.”
– Imelda May, Manager, Capilano University
"Throughout my time working with Alice, I was able to explore the intricacies of my strengths, learning how to apply them in both a personal and career setting. With every coaching session, I was always surprised with the number of actionable insights that I was walking away with, and saw improvements in how I leveraged my strengths over time. I recommend Alice's CliftonStrengths® coaching to any team or individual who is looking to more efficiently and effectively utilize their talents.”
– Kerri Jesson, Marketing Strategist
“I was miserable in my full-time job and was going through final round interviews while balancing On Deck. Alice helped me navigate those waters and ultimately, I ended the our coaching sessions with a new job and successfully completing the OnDeck Fellow Program.”
- Joseph Bauer, Product Marketing Manager, Coda
“Alice is awesome. I think I was somewhat confused and was drifting away from my values. This coaching has helped me get back on track and has prepared me to be a better, more authentic leader. Alice, thank you for being so generous with your time and for being so surgical in handling all the issues I threw at you. Sometimes, it is hard to understand for me to understand why I want certain things. I loved how Alice helped me explore my deeply seated whys and tied my actions and behaviours to my values. This type of coaching further helped me coach my mentees and members of my team better. I overall feel more prepared to lead.”
- Ramit Arora, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft