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
Look who's using our assessments today:
Check out our recent news and blog.
4 Tectonic Shifts That Make Digital Courses a Necessity in Business
For years, corporate e-learning was full of boring, click-through-as-fast-as-you-can programs that were primarily used for compliance and tactical training. But today's digital courses are full of interactive live sessions, engaging prework, robust communities, rewards-based gamification, and so much more. Organizations and their employees are embracing this new way of learning now more than ever as a result of four workplace shifts.
These are big shifts, like the tectonic shifts that happen in an earthquake. The have changed the landscape of work forever and for the better if you're a learning professional or coach who desires the flexiblity and freedom these new approaches provide.
TECTONIC SHIFT #1: Virtual Culture Dilemma
During the Covid 19 pandemic, everything got derailed, sending people to all corners of their homes in search of comfortable, functional workspaces. They developed new ways of juggling work and family life and learned work from home technologies. Some people used this as an opportunity to find a new position or to choose an entrepreneurial path. Others simply were displaced and distracted, checked out, or just trying to keep up. This created our first tectonic shift – and that’s a cultural shift. Employers faced a virtual culture dilemma that shifted the way employees relate, communicate, and collaborate at work.
A survey of 2,500 business professionals revealed that the top two skills for success in virtual work are problem solving and social or emotional skills. This type of learning content will help people continue to adapt to this shift and to thrive in today’s virtual world.
TECTONIC SHIFT #2: Employers as a Safety Net
In the past, organizations served only as a financial safety net by helping people earn a weekly paycheck. Now, companies are facing the second tectonic shift as they recognize the need to serve as a wellness safety net, ensuring their employees are physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy and strong. This creates a need for learning content that goes beyond compliance, skills, and management training. Personal development programs that focus on personal wellness and overcoming life's challenges are part of today's workplace curriculum.
TECTONIC SHIFT #3: Loss of Social Connections
Today, many people are working from home or in a hybrid arrangement. Even though they love doing their laundry while working from home, today’s workforce misses the camaraderie of a group of like-minded professionals coming together for a common purpose. They miss working and learning together.
Smart employers are adapting to this third tectonic shift to by creating more intentional social connections for their teams. In some cases, this be a one-time event like a teambuilding session or virtual happy hours. Other organizations are taking a more formal approach by creating employee resource groups or employee affinity groups. Others have tapped into technology by creating online communities for employees with similiar interests to learn and share.
TECTONIC SHIFT #4: The Power of Online Learning
The fourth shift employers have embraced is the recognition that online learning can be just as powerful as traditional, in-person events. People are so comfortable now using online reference materials for their work, Googling possible solutions to problems, and following YouTube channels to build their professional expertise and personal well-being. I don’t think there’s a person on the planet who hasn’t been part of a Teams meeting, Zoom session, or a Facebook live.
But, let me tell you where the real shift has been. In the past, only the largest employers had budgets or bandwidth to widely embrace online learning. With modern-day techniques and easy-to-use technology right at our fingertips, robust online learning programs can easily be created and delivered.
Need help?
If you're an independent coach, trainer or consultant eager to create a digital course, my good friend, Amy Porterfield is hosting her bootcamp. Click here to get in before it closes!
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