About – Cultivate Capabilities

Discover Why Brisbane Businesses Are Choosing Cultivate Capabilities

Discover why Brisbane businesses are choosing Cultivate Capabilities to transform their people; as one of the leading CliftonStrengths coaches for leadership development, team building, and employee engagement solutions.

Vision: To be a leading Capability builder and Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths business in the Learning and Development space; using practical tools, collaboration, high engagement and fun.

Mission: Our passion is people development. We unlock potential and build new capabilities in skills, knowledge, and mindsets. We facilitate growth for individuals, teams, and organisations that deliver results.

We Drive Outcomes In

✔ Gaining greater self-awareness

✔ Deeper understanding of unique strengths

✔ Fostering team dynamics and better collaboration

✔ Practical, actionable coaching and tools

✔ Real impact during organisational change

✔ Expert facilitation and coaching

✔ Employee engagement scores

✔ Performance management solutions

✔ Leadership programmes

✔ Learning culture

✔ Organisational culture

✔ Investment in your people's development

✔ High performing teams

✔ Your ability and your line manager’s to stay focused on your “day job” and support you as highly experienced Capability Partners

Our Values

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It's All About You

Ever been to a conference and the facilitators and the panel spoke about themselves, completely wasting the knowledge and expertise in the room by asking few (if any) questions, and not involving the participants from the get go? At Cultivate Capabilities it’s all about YOU… enough said!

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Making a Difference

Some coaching and learning programmes are about ticking a box or scared to be bound by metrics. We love accountability and truly feel satisfied when we can review the tangible and intangible benefits of working together. Our learning is designed to grow, like a plant, through regular watering, nourishment, and checking conditions are all on track for a flourishing garden. Your success is our success, and that’s what gets us up in the morning!

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Development for All

We’re passionate about learning and development for all, and not just the privileged folk. We’ve been honoured to have worked with people of diverse backgrounds across SE Asia, Europe and Australia, coaching people in areas such as Government organisations, pharmaceutical, digital and IT, aesthetics, hospitality, finance, medical devices and corporate services. All generations 18-65+ of the workforce are equally enjoying exposure to self-development and team upskilling. We’ve marvelled at the eagerness of a new wave of young people, keen to know the secrets of Strengths to hasten career progression. A favourite story regarding a complete 180-degree flip, was where we started with a few cynics, who had reluctantly turned up to their Strengths Team workshop, as part of their manager’s direction. From initially sitting with crossed arms and frowns at the kick-off, these participants were sharing personal awareness and future goals with their colleagues at the end of our learning together! To boot, two weeks later, the Director reported back that these individuals had quietly commented on the value they have taken forward with Strengths!

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Kindness

It’s like the little black dress in your cupboard; kindness never goes out of date!!! We contribute regularly to family, friends, society, networks, strangers, learners, vendors and mentees. In our interactions with you, we can guarantee approaching the relationship with kindness always.

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Learning New Skills

Whether it’s revisiting our own Strengths, asking for help from networks, or undertaking a formal training programme, we believe that “practicing what we preach” is essential to ensuring learners receive the best possible Strengths coaching, so we too, invest in our own development. We won’t ask you or others in your team to do something we’re not prepared to think on or “have a go at” ourselves.

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Fun

Often thought of as something fluffy or insignificant in organisations and not in any “Culture manual” we’ve seen!!!! As far as values, without a doubt, injecting humour, playfulness, themes, activities for purpose, experiential learning, and good old-fashioned fun, is a winner every day of the week. We’re always up for tailoring fun that suits you, so please bring along all your cheeky suggestions, and we’ll see how we can bring it to life. We can promise we’ll arrive with smiles, be singing to a few tunes, and telling some unbelievable but true, hilarious story, when we meet you in a free consultation.

Ali Souz

Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach | 20+ Years Experience

Ali Souz is a fully accredited Gallup CliftonStrengths coach with more than 20+ years of experience in coaching and talent development. Ali has guided hundreds of individuals and teams through transformational strengths development journeys and brings a unique combination of business experience and coaching expertise to every engagement.

With a background spanning corporate facilitation, pharmaceutical industry L&D, and senior consulting roles, Ali brings real-world business acumen to every coaching engagement.

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Why Gallup CliftonStrengths?

When our team selected a development tool, it was imperative that it be rigorous with a research foundation. Gallup CliftonStrengths programme has 60+ years of evidence behind it and is originally built on the principles of positive psychology by Don Clifton.

In our experience in Learning and Development, it's the best programme and tool to facilitate people's ability to understand where their TRUE talents lie – their innate way of thinking, feeling and doing, and deliberately investing in and magnifying these areas as SUPERPOWERS or STRENGTHS at work and in their personal lives.

After working with a myriad of teams and individuals, we've witnessed people behaviourally and emotionally change in professional and personal life, when they have a SPOTLIGHT shone on their strengths. Simply becoming AWARE of their talents, reflecting on where they've used them with success and ease, and then ACTIVELY ramping up more of what they do best every day, is a GAME CHANGER for our clients.

Feedback from our clients who are leveraging their strengths includes: Increased self-awareness; Respect and a new understanding of others; Accelerated collaboration and relationship building; The opportunity to do their best work everyday; Ability to handle and navigate change easier.

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For your Organisations and Teams?

I'm Ali Souz, the founder of Cultivate Capabilities. I've always been excited to be learning new skills from my early days in training workshops in the corporate world. I can recall the memorable development sessions vs the ones that landed flat, and didn't "have me at hello". Our aim is to provide the BEST experience of Strengths-based development with practical, actionable plans for your year ahead. We travel to destinations across Australia at the cost of the clients. We welcome any conversations on Australia-wide events and conferences you're planning.

I believe that EVERYONE in the room is deserving and capable of development, and warrants the opportunity to learn new skills, stretch their mindset, and knowledge, and that it shouldn't sit with one team, or simply, the selected "privileged folk". Investment in people should happen ACROSS the organisation. I've personally witnessed how enterprise learning can enhance organisational culture, teamwork, and engagement, in the driver seat as a national and global corporate facilitator.

As Gallup CliftonStrengths research would say, it's not just a role, a job title, or a pay cheque that motivates people. The opportunity to use and develop your strengths is more influential to your success and overall confidence, direction, hope, and even kindness to others. Imagine the power of Gallup CliftonStrengths in your workplace and your life!!!!

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For your Personal Coaching & Development Plans?

As a people manager and coach, my delight has always been in facilitating an individual's ability to become aware of their incredible talents, and partner with them, to land the vision of success they set for themselves.

I can remember, before exposure to CliftonStrengths, managing a "powerhouse" Sales representative who I would hazard a guess now, as an experienced Strengths coach, is likely "off the charts" in executing and influencing themes. We worked together over 12 months to help her dig into her talents and collaborate with others (relationship building). We co-designed a plan using my No.1 and 2 strengths as a coach which are Strategic (talent for creating alternative pathways, can spot relevant patterns and how to proceed) and Ideation (fascination with ideas and can find connections between concepts).

Needless to say, once she'd identified her goal – to become "Rep of the year" (amongst a salesforce of approximately 100+), we brainstormed ideas and strategies that formulated her plan, which she executed with perfection. I had tears when she proudly and humbly achieved her visions of success, alongside her sensational buddies, by accepting the award at the Annual Sales Conference Gala night.

Memorable feedback regarding Gallup CliftonStrengths has been how much more confidence coaches have in being themselves and recognising the value of what they bring to their relationships, their careers and to their communities.

Like a doctor that books a health check, or a builder that maintains their home, Cultivate Capabilities proactively invests and enhances our own strengths and skills through networks such as the Institute of Learning and Performance Asia Pacific and Gallup CliftonStrengths Coaching networks. This means that we bring you the latest and greatest in learning and facilitation skills, to apply to your people and your organisation.

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