About Work Ignited:
Assessments and Development
to Build Strong Leaders and Collaborative Teams
Here's the Truth:
Work shouldn't feel like a grind. It should make you feel ignited!
Hi There. I'm Amy Pearl.
At Work Ignited, we help HR, L&D and business leaders to build stronger leaders, healthier teams, and workplace cultures people love.
Coming from the corporate world, I experienced first-hand the challenges of building high performing teams, navigating organizational politics, balancing competing priorities, managing change and uncertainty, and developing people while driving results...all while trying to feel good about your life. I saw many leaders struggle, not because they weren't capable but because they lacked the insight, frameworks, and support to feel effective.
That's why, for more than 25 years, I've partnered with organizations of every size, from global Fortune 50 companies to small businesses to not-for-profits, to make leadership assessment and development practical, personalized, and powerfully effective. Now, we serve hundreds of organizations annually implement science-based assessments and impactful development solutions to spark transformation from the inside out.
If you're looking to ignite your passion, ignite your team, and ignite your workplace...
You've come to the right place!
Why Organizations Choose to Work With Us
Business-minded,
strategic
thinkers.
Personal and action-oriented
service.
Award-winning assessment
providers.
Step-by-step
implementation
support.
Practical and
cost-effective
solutions.
What We Do
Leadership Assessments and Development That Works in the Real World
Leadership Assessments:
Unlock the Potential of People
Get certified to bring these tools in-house or rely on us for full-service administration.
Everything DiSC for self-discovery, training, and teambuilding
PXT Select for candidate screening, position profiling, onboarding, and career pathing
Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team to create high performing teams
Customized 360 degree feedback to grow leaders
Leadership Development:
Implement Learning That Sticks
Whether you need a full-service partner or prefer to do-it-yourself, we'll help you build a solution that fits your goals and your budget.
Full One-on-one Coaching Engagements and Laser Coaching
Online Learning for Supervisory and Management Development
Teambuilding Sessions and Executive Retreats
Grab-N-Go Learning Kits and Facilitation Materials
Succession Planning and Talent Development Strategies
Who We Serve
The People That Make Work Work
Human Resources Professionals
Build leadership capacity, improve culture, reduce turnover, resolve conflict, create high performing teams
Learning &
Development Teams
Scale training programs, certify internal facilitators, provide engaging learning experiences, measure development impact
Managers &
Team Leaders
Understand your team, strengthen trust and teamwork, build accountability, achieve results through people
Organizations Going Through Change
Navigate mergers/acquisitions, implement new systems, manage restructuing, drive culture, engage teams
Get to Know Us
At Work Ignited, we believe in keeping things personal. That means, when you work with us, you don't get voicemails, chatbots, or layers of bureaucracy. You work directly with the people who design, deliver, and celebrate your success. Every engagement is tailored, never templated. Plus, we're backed by industry powerhouses like Wiley Publishing, Unboxed Technologies, and Paradigm Personality Labs.
You get seasoned experts and personalized service who know you, your goals, your people, and your culture inside and out.
Amy Pearl
DiSC Profile: Conscientious/Dominant
Hi! I love creating strategic solutions and simple tools to help people ignite their passions, their teams, and their workplaces. I've spent the last 3 decades helping companies achieve their goals, first as a corporate gal at M&T Bank and then, serving people like you. Now, I spend my time coaching Human Resources, L&D, and business leaders to love their jobs. I'm a no-nonsense yet fun-loving coach and facilitator who loves to hiking the highest mountains and playing golf out of the deepest sand traps. I'd love to help you achieve your goals!
Kris Coleman
DiSC Profile: Conscientious
Hello! We might have already spoken, since I'm typically the person you speak with when you call our office, especially if I'm managing 360 degree feedback projects for your organization. It's my job to make sure our clients get the best service possible. I've had experience working in all kinds of places including an animal hospital and brewery in Buffalo, a private high school in New York City, Sugarbush Resort in Vermont, and Denali Park Resorts in Alaska. I can't wait to get to know more about your organization.
Our Approach:
You and Me Every Step of the Way
Identify Your
Strategy, Goals and
Learning Approach
We spend time with you learning about your needs, your culture, and your desired approach. Then, we'll customize full-service or do-it-yourself solutions to achieve your goals.
Choose Your Assessments and Customize Your Materials
Whether you are screening job candidates, developing your team, or assessing your leaders, we'll help you choose the assessments and customize the training materials based on your organization's mission, vision, values, and key messages.
Facilitate an
Engaging
Experience
We'll customize a leadership development program, teambuilding event, training class, or one-on-one coaching engagement that engages learners, instills habits that lead to success, and makes your job easier.
Ensure the
Learning
Sticks
Use our micro-learning modules and virtual team activities to keep the learning alive, transform your culture, and cross one thing of your list!
Our Values
When we help our clients define their core values, we tell them that these are more than just words. They are the are the beliefs and behaviors people should bring to the table and demonstrate throughout the day. So, if you're going to post the words on the wall, you better mean it and do it. We try to be role models of this philosophy every day by demonstrating these values through our work.
Respect
We care about people and build positive, trusting relationships to help other unlock their personal potential.
Inspire
We make someone say "wow" every day to improve their lives and the lives of those around them.
Innovate
We understand others' needs and use our creativity to implement solutions that work for them.
Deliver
We provide exceptional products and service. We love new adventures and never stop learning in order to be our best.
Collaborate
We create a friendly, open, and fun atmosphere that creates a bigger future for everyone.
Let's Connect
Our home base is in Buffalo, New York. Go Bills!
But the magic of Teams and Zoom allows us to service clients from around the world.
Want to chat?
Let's discuss your challenges and goals. No pressure, never a sales pitch - just an open conversation about how we can help.
Contact Us
Work Ignited
716-276-8005
8304 Main Street
Williamsville, New York 14221
Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:30 - 5:00 Eastern Time
We'd love to hear from you!
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Assessment
Solutions
Explore our assessments for candidate screening, development, team building, succession planning, and more.
Fabulous
Together
Give the women in your organization the coaching, confidence, and connections they need to have successful careers and a fabulous lives.
e-Learning
Made Easy
Create an amazing learning experience
whether your team is
at the office, at home, or on the go.
Lead
Ignited
Be the best leader you can be
with this award-winning
learning opportunity.
Collaboration
Breakthrough
Create a workplace you love with our best-selling book, employee survey, and interactive team experience.
Coaching
Conversations
Replace your archaic review process
with an online system to
guide GREAT conversations.
Download the Best Interview Questions
for Virtual Job Candidates
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How to Use DiSC to Strengthen Year End Performance Reviews
How can you use DiSC to strengthen year-end reviews?
Quick Answer:
Use DiSC to turn year-end reviews from stressful scorecards into meaningful coaching conversations. When leaders adapt their approach based on each team member's DiSC style, feedback feels personal, not perfunctory.
I recently asked my social media followers to tell me the one workplace practice they wish would disappear forever. You know what the answer was? Performance Reviews. That's probably not surprising as it seems that year-end conversations have become a paintful routine. It's easy to change that!
Let's use Everything DiSC to make it easy for managers to recognize, celebrate, and develop each team member based on their unique DiSC styles, turning year-end reviews into personalized, motivating, meaningful conversations. Share these simple steps with your leaders.
Prepare for the Conversation with Everything DiSC on Catalyst
Everything DiSC on Catalyst helps you to:
Frame feedback in ways that land effectively
Ask more effective questions based on work styles
Have development conversations that inspire action
Set goals that align with how people work best
Before you start filling out your organization's obligatory review templates or you hold your review meetings, take 10 minutes to hop on Catalyst to prepare.
Prep Step 1: Use Everything DiSC on Catalyst to Personalize Your Approach
The Colleagues feature will provide specific information about team members' strengths, motivators, how they might be misunderstood, and how they can be more effective.
The Management feature will provide extensive suggestions for giving direction, delegating, developing, and creating a motivating environment for your team members.
Prep Step 2: Capture Key Insights
Make quick notes for each employee:
Their DiSC style: ______
Greatest accomplishments this year → ______
How their DiSC strengths contributed → ______
What motivates them most → ______
One area to support or stretch next year → ______
Prep Step 3: Personalize Your Comments and Recognize Accomplishments by Style
Frame comments around what they value, not what you value. Use DiSC to deliver recognition that feels personal and genuine:
D – Dominance: Emphasize achievements, efficiency, results, bold decisions
i – Influence: Emphasize creativity, collaboration, optimism, relationship-building
S – Steadiness: Emphasize consistency, dependability, teamwork, helpfulness
C – Conscientiousness: Emphasize accuracy, planning, expertise, high standards
Tip: Pair recognition with one or two concrete examples from the year. Specificity makes praise believable and shows you've been paying attention.
Structure the Year End Conversation
I want you to have GREAT Conversations. Follow this GREAT Conversation Framework to balance recognition and growth. Remember to weave in what you learned on Catalyst.
Goals: What progress did the team member make toward their professional and personal goals this year?
Recognition: What accomplishments would you like to celebrate? What projects/tasks gave the team member the most energy? How did the team member's strengths show up in that work?
Effectiveness: What would the team member like to do better, differently, or more often in the coming year?
Advancement: How could the team member advance along a career path? How can we advance as an organization? How can I advance as a leader to support the team member better?
Targets: What would the team member like to accomplish this year professionally and personally? And, to keep the conversation rolling: What targets will the team member accomplish before you meet again? What can the leader do for the team member before you meet again? [You might have to hold off on answering these questions until you actually have the year-end conversation.]
For a strong two-way dialogue, ask team members to think about their own answers to these questions and start with their perspectives first. Then, add your thoughts during the conversation.
Ask Probing Questions
To deepen the discussion, ask probing questions that are aligned with your team member's DiSC style. You'll speak their language, demonstrate that you understand them, and show that you value what's important to them.
Maintain the Momentum
Follow up after reviews with one or two Catalyst-based micro-habits:
Compare your styles using the Your Colleagues feature
Review What Drives You in the Workplace feature to identify priorities, motivators, and stressors and how they impact team members at work
Add the Management or Agile EQ Modules for expanded learning
Create Your Group and explore the Conversation Starters with your team to strengthen teamwork
Schedule quarterly check-ins, using Everything DiSC on Catalyst and the GREAT conversation framework to keep it rolling
Key Takeaways for Your Year End Conversations
Use Everything DiSC on Catalyst and follow Prep Steps 1, 2, and 3 as described above
Structure your GREAT Conversations
Adapt your approach, comments, and questions to individual styles
Maintain your momentum with follow up Catalyst activities and conversations
Remember, the goal is a productive dialogue, not just a completed review form.
Need an Extra Boost? Save 25% on our Worksmart management training modules until January 5th!
Spend some time in the Giving Constructive Feedback Worksmart module and create a personalized action plan for each team member. You'll get tailored strategies, specfic language, and real-time guidance. Click here to check out Worksmart.
Not using Catalyst yet? FREE upgrades MUST be assigned by December 31, 2025!
Catalyst is an online platform that provides your Everything DiSC learners dozens of micro-learning modules. They can also create comparisons with their colleauges and group reports to get personalized tips for building relationships, handling tense situations, influencing others, giving direction, delegating, and more.
If you have Everything DiSC Profiles just sitting in an EPIC dashboard, you can ugprade them to Catalyst for FREE if you act fast. The free upgrade period expires on December 31st!
