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FLORIDA · TEAM AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT · NONPROFIT AND CORPORATE

Insights Discovery Training in Florida

When a team stops saying what it actually thinks, everything slows down. Meetings get careful. Feedback stops. Good people quietly disengage. Insights Discovery® gives Florida teams a shared, plain-language way to talk about how they work, so the hard conversations get easier instead of avoided.

Your Florida facilitator is Kristen Theisen, CFRE, a Licensed Insights Discovery Practitioner with Fuse - Igniting Communication.

In person across Southwest Florida and Tampa Bay · statewide with travel · virtual anywhere · groups of up to 100

Kristen Theisen facilitating an Insights Discovery workshop in Florida

TEAM AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Workplace collaboration training built on Insights Discovery

Give your team a simple, memorable language to work through differences before they become friction. Through engaging facilitated workshops, teams build stronger connections, communicate with greater clarity, and turn individual differences into better collaboration and results.

Workplace collaboration

Less friction between departments, roles, and working styles

Leaders who adapt how they communicate to the people in front of them

Boards and governance

Board and staff working relationships, committees, and retreats

Licensed, credentialed, and local

Bradenton-based, serving Florida

CFRE

Certified Fundraising Executive since 2014

20+ years

Communications, marketing, and fund development

AFP

Certified Facilitator, Association of Fundraising Professionals

WHY TEAMS CHOOSE KRISTEN

Insights Discovery for all teams, especially nonprofits and boards.

Most Insights Discovery practitioners come out of corporate learning and development. Kristen came from the fund development side of the nonprofit world. She has sat in the development director's chair, run the campaign, navigated the board relationship, and juggled the committee needs. She facilitates a nonprofit team's communication challenges as someone who has lived them, not as a visitor.

"One of the biggest benefits of working with Kristen is that, from a nonprofit lens, you don't have to explain your mission or industry to exhaustion. She already gets it. She has a pulse on the challenges, the heart, and the urgency behind the work."

Ana McClendon, then Director of Outreach

Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County

For boards and governance teams

Board members arrive from different industries, different decades, and different assumptions about what a board is for.

  • Board and staff working relationships

  • Committee dynamics and decision making

  • Onboarding new members into an existing culture

  • Retreat facilitation with a shared language people keep using

For staff and development teams

Small teams, wide roles, and a fundraising calendar that does not pause for the hard conversation.

  • Development, program, and finance talking past each other

  • Communicating under campaign pressure

  • Retention and burnout in lean teams

  • Preparing emerging leaders without a formal pipeline

Tell Kristen about your board or team. The form takes a few minutes, and she follows up personally.

practitioner

YOUR FLORIDA FACILITATOR

Kristen Theisen, CFRE

Kristen Theisen, CFRE, Licensed Insights Discovery Practitioner, Fuse - Igniting Communication, Bradenton, Florida

Communications Trainer

Insights Discovery Licensed Practitioner

CEO of Amplify Connections Consulting, partner of Fuse - Igniting Communication

✓ Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) since 2014

✓ Certified Facilitator, Association of Fundraising Professionals

✓ Certificate in Nonprofit Board Consulting, BoardSource

✓ State of Florida Registered Fundraising Consultant

✓ BA in Communication, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame

✓ Member, Florida Nonprofit Alliance

✓ Based in Bradenton, serving clients throughout Florida

Kristen Theisen brings more than 20 years of experience in communications, marketing, and fundraising to Insights Discovery work across Southwest Florida. A Certified Fundraising Executive since 2014, she has led successful teams and award-winning campaigns that raised millions. She now helps nonprofit and corporate teams turn self-awareness into stronger working relationships.

Planning a retreat, a new board cohort, or a team reset? Start here.

SERVING TEAMS ACROSS FLORIDA

Southwest Florida and Tampa Bay in person. Statewide by arrangement.

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, IN PERSON

Sarasota, Bradenton, Lakewood Ranch, Venice, North Port, Palmetto, Osprey, Nokomis, Englewood, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Estero, Bonita Springs, and Naples

TAMPA BAY, IN PERSON

Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, all within the standard travel radius from Bradenton

COUNTIES AND STATEWIDE

Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, Lee, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties. Sessions elsewhere in Florida are arranged with travel costs covered, and virtual sessions run anywhere in the state.

ALSO WORKING WITH

Florida sectors where communication can be a constraint.

Healthcare and social services

Hospital systems, physician groups, senior living, home health, and human services agencies across the Gulf Coast. Interdepartmental friction, care team coordination, and leading under sustained pressure.

Education

Independent schools, districts, state colleges, and universities. Faculty and administration collaboration, department leadership, and cross-functional teams that rarely meet in the same room.

Professional services

Attorneys, insurance firms, accounting practices, and HOA and community association management. Client-facing communication, partner group dynamics, and the board relationships that come with association work.

Hospitality and tourism

Resorts, clubs, attractions, and the seasonal workforce that runs them. Onboarding at speed, guest-facing communication, and supervisors promoted for competence rather than training.

Real estate, development, and construction

Developers, property management, and the trades. Field-to-office communication, subcontractor coordination, and generational handover in family-held firms.

Financial services

Wealth management, banking, and advisory practices. Client conversations, team dynamics inside advisory groups, and succession in practices built around a founder.

what-it-is

WHAT INSIGHTS DISCOVERY IS

A shared language for how people work.

Insights Discovery is a psychometric tool built on Carl Jung's work. Each person completes a short online evaluator and receives a personal profile built around four color energies. The point is not to label anyone. The point is that a team ends up with one vocabulary for describing preferences, and a way to flex into the styles that do not come naturally.

Cool Blue

Analytical and precise. Values accuracy, evidence, and time to think before deciding.

Earth Green

Supportive and people-focused. Values harmony, relationships, and decisions the team can live with.

Sunshine Yellow

Enthusiastic and expressive. Values momentum, possibility, and thinking out loud with others.

Fiery Red

Direct and decisive. Values results, clarity, and getting to the point without detours.

Everyone uses all four. What differs is the order and the effort each one takes. The Team Wheel maps the whole group in one picture, which is usually the moment the room goes quiet, because people can suddenly see why one conversation is effortless and another is not.

workshops

WORKSHOP OPTIONS

Four ways to start.

Half-day team workshop

3 to 4 hours

  • Personal profile for every participant

  • The four color energies and what they look like at work

  • Team Wheel session

  • Application to one real challenge the team names

Best for: a first session, intact teams, and groups meeting a deadline.

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Full-day deep dive

6 to 8 hours

  • Everything in the half-day, plus deeper hands-on application

  • In-depth Team Wheel discussion

  • Insights Team Effectiveness activities

  • Collective agreements and individual commitments

Best for: retreats, reorganized teams, and leadership groups.

MOST REQUESTED

Multi-session program

Progressive series

  • Foundation workshop, then targeted modules

  • Feedback, conflict, resilience, change, influencing

  • Sessions spaced so the language sticks between them

  • Built around what the team is actually working through

Best for: sustained change rather than a good day that fades.

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Board retreat or governance session

Half or full day

  • Board alone, or board and senior staff together

  • Governance dynamics and committee working styles

  • The board and staff relationship, addressed directly

  • Fits inside an existing retreat agenda

Best for: nonprofit boards, association boards, and new board cohorts.

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Not sure which format fits? Describe the team and the goal, and Kristen will recommend one.

delivery

HOW SESSIONS RUN

In person across the Gulf Coast, virtual anywhere in Florida.

In person

Engaging, interactive, face-to-face sessions hosted at your selected venue. Travel within a two-hour drive of Bradenton is included, covering Southwest Florida from Naples to Tampa Bay. Sessions further afield in Florida are arranged when travel costs are covered.

MOST REQUESTED

Virtual instructor-led training

Sessions delivered over Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet, with breakouts and interactive Team Wheel work. Designed for distributed teams, multi-site organizations, and dispersed boards. Virtual is a more economical option, and it works because our facilitation is built to be interactive.

FREQUENTLY ASKED

The questions people actually ask.

Straight answers from Kristen on cost, format, travel, and what changes afterward.

Have a question that is not answered here? Put it in the form and Kristen will answer it directly.

PROOF

What clients say.

"Kristen helped tell our story in a way that expanded our reach and connected with new audiences. She brought creativity, strategy, and professionalism throughout."

Nicole Mobley, Director of Development

Samaritan Counseling Services of the Gulf Coast

"Kristen's preparedness, organization, and wealth of knowledge makes her an asset to any team or individual seeking to improve their internal or external communication skills, strategies, or overall performance."

Kayla Nevadomski, Development Director

Everyday Blessings, Inc.

"I've participated in a few assessments over my career but none have been as accurate, relatable, and thorough as Insights. It has positioned me to be a better leader!"

Kelly Carlstein, Vice President of Brand Strategy

Gulf Coast Community Foundation

"One of the biggest benefits of working with Kristen is that, from a nonprofit lens, you don't have to explain your mission or industry to exhaustion. She already gets it. She has a pulse on the challenges, the heart, and the urgency behind the work."

Ana McClendon, then Director of Outreach

Early Learning Coalition of Sarasota County

"The results of that Insights Discovery survey are certainly eye opening, but on the other hand, they read me like a book. The possible weaknesses are spot on and the key strengths about made me cry. Yes to all of those, and pointing them out to me made me weak in the knees. I feel like I want to print this out and hand it out to people and say, here, this is me."

Kim Noyes, President

Sarasota Tiger Bay Club

Bring Insights Discovery to your Florida team.

Tell Kristen who is in the room, what is not working, and roughly when you need it. She will come back with a format and a written proposal. Groups of up to 100, in person or virtual.

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