Hosted by Mary Hamm and Bill Dippel, Strengths on Fire brings strengths-based development to life through energetic, relatable conversations. This year, we’re turning the podcast into a lab—testing familiar assumptions, investigating real workplace challenges, uncovering hidden talents, and confronting the parts of strengths coaching that deserve a more honest conversation.

Step inside the Lab for:

Strengths Court — Familiar workplace beliefs and strengths stereotypes go on trial as we examine the evidence and deliver a final verdict.

Strengths vs. Reality — We investigate real conflicts, breakthroughs, leadership challenges, and coaching moments to discover which strengths were truly at work.

Blind Strengths — Guests keep their Top 5 secret while we interview them, make our predictions, and reveal the results alongside our listeners.

The Strengths Experiment — We test playful, practical, and occasionally ridiculous ways to put strengths to work—and explore what succeeded, failed, or surprised us.

Strengths on Fire: Unfiltered — Honest conversations about coaching failures, strengths used as excuses, toxic positivity, organizational misuse, misunderstood reports, and the myths our community needs to challenge.

Expect real stories, lively disagreements, unexpected discoveries, and practical ideas for using your unique talents more effectively at work and in life. The Lab is open. Let’s put strengths to the test.