Most supervisors were promoted because they were great at the work, not because anyone taught them how to lead people. Then they spend their days chasing what is going wrong instead of building on what is going right.
Strength-based supervision flips that. It is a practical approach to managing people that starts with what each staff member does well and uses it to close the gaps. The result is staff who feel seen, supervisors who spend less time putting out fires, and teams that grow.
This four-hour session is built for supervisors, team leads, and managers. It is practical and built around the day to day of leading a team. Supervisors learn the approach, work through real examples, and get time to practice the conversations they tend to avoid.
Your team will walk away able to:
- Spot and name the real strengths of each person they manage
- Coach toward growth instead of only correcting what is broken
- Have honest, direct conversations about the work that build trust instead of fear
- Run check-ins that develop people, not just track tasks
- Hold staff accountable in a way that keeps them engaged and cuts turnover
Amira Davis- CEO and Co-Founder, D5 Consulting Group. Amira Davis is the CEO and Co-Founder of D5 Consulting Group, a workplace safety and leadership development firm based in Endicott, New York. After thirty years in corporate America, she founded D5 with her husband, Sammy, with a mission to keep frontline workers safe, supported, and prepared for the realities of human-facing work. Amira’s work focuses on safety, communication, leadership, and workforce wellbeing. She has trained social service teams, healthcare staff, school districts, and nonprofit boards on de-escalation, workplace violence prevention, and leading under pressure. She is also the founder of AmiraEvolved, a platform for Gen X women navigating leadership, identity, and midlife, and speaks on owning your voice, leading authentically, and holding ground in spaces where women are too often overlooked.
Sammy Davis – Master Instructor and Co-Founder, D5 Consulting Group. Sammy Davis is the Master Instructor and Co-Founder of D5 Consulting Group. He brings more than three decades of law enforcement experience, including service as the Undersheriff of Broome County, and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Sammy specializes in workplace violence prevention, de-escalation, crisis response, and safety preparedness for organizations whose staff work with vulnerable populations. Known for his calm, direct, and practical teaching style, he translates high-stakes field experience into tools frontline teams can actually use when situations escalate.
