Education
California State University, Stanislau
Podcasts
34:5544: Your Authentic Strengths X24 With Fatima Doman, Positive Psychology Coach [Main T4C Episode]
Fatima Doman is a best selling author, speaker, executive coach and CEO of Authentic Strengths Advantage who has motivated audiences across six continents to leverage their authentic strengths for transformation. Fatima is passionate about empowering people for sustainable high performance—at work and in life. Her experience fleeing Angola on the..
Career Path
Interview Highlights
“The shadow side of strengths is when you either under-use a strength or overuse a strength. For example, the strength of creativity, under-use of that strength would be conformity and overuse of that strength might be eccentricity.”
Best Career Advice
“I would advise anybody that I coach to really think through all of the resources that they have at their disposal. There’s so many things that people can do for themselves if they just open up that level of inquiry.”
Career Challenge
“Both times that I’ve been working on these book projects, it’s been difficult for me because I’ve had to use some of my lesser strengths. My top strengths are gratitude, social intelligence, I really enjoy working with other people. And in the book writing process, you spend a lot of hours by yourself pouring over data and research and going over the manuscript, crossing every t dotting every i. And a lot of prudence has to be used in this process. Prudence is one of my lower strengths. So I’ve found myself having to really pull that strength forward.”
Skills
Leadership Development, Executive Development, Executive Coaching, Consulting, Business Strategy, Instructional Design, Emotional Intelligence, Team Building, Coaching, Motivational Speaking, Career Development, Facilitation, Feedback
Professional Interests
Bill Gates, Chester Elton, Brené Brown, Deloitte, PwC, EY, The International Coaching Federation, Columbia Business School
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Timber Pizza & Call Your Mother Deli
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Andrew Imbrie
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Faculty
Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology
