Listen to my podcast interview with Dr Carlos Saba, co-founder of The Happy Startup School, to learn more about personality, playing to your strengths and working with difference, through the lens of the brilliant Lumina Spark psychometric. I recently coached Carlos around his Lumina portrait; in this podcast he shares insights it gave him into some of his own self-limiting beliefs as well as the paradoxes and ‘hidden treasures’ in his personality…

My 3 year old loves flowers. Yesterday I gave her some that I had found on the ground. She was so delighted - repeatedly and lovingly arranging them, smelling them, gazing at them. And then I inadvertently said something that provoked an outburst of anger and she started hysterically ripping them to shreds in protest. It was a tragi-comic moment, seeing her do something so pointless and destructive that hurt no one but herself…

Personality matters. And never more so than in these stressful times when many of us are remote working and when our usual personality traits are likely to be amplified. I have mediated countless workplace conflicts that had their origins in - or escalated due to - personality clashes. […] Inspired by the Lumina Spark* psychometric, here are some tips to help you understand and manage your personality, to bring out the best in yourself and others…