EQ & You

Growing a business, a team, or your results in challenging times requires strong leadership.  Strong leaders use self-awareness as a foundation to leverage their strengths, identify their blind spots, find ways to adapt to lessen the impact of their weaker areas, collaborate more effectively with others, and accomplish team goals.

Understanding one’s natural behavioral drives is the first step in developing self-awareness. Next, it’s important to understand which Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills are most critical to success with people and with performance.

Sara Best, Principal and Co-Founder of Real Good Ventures, LLC,  has studied and worked with emotional intelligence for almost 20 years.  She will unpack what it is, why it's important, and how we can use EQ to optimize our performance and our lives.

Sara Best is a people and team development champion with over 25 years of experience serving global, national and regional organizations of all sizes and scope in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

 Sara is a certified Talent Optimization Leader, a Certified Practitioner of The Predictive Index, a Certified EQ-i2.0/EQ 360 Assessment Administrator as well as an experienced Emotional Intelligence, Performance, Team, and Executive Coach.  

Best is a member of CAPAPRO- an elite membership network of The Table Group, a Patrick Lencioni Company.  She is an advanced facilitator of The Advantage Model and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in social work from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree in administration from Eastern Michigan University.