Martha Buelt

Email: mbuelt@talentstrength.net

Martha Buelt, MA, is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, educator, and consultant.

Martha’s area of expertise includes teaching strengths education, which includes equipping leaders and educators how to use the CliftonStrengths® talent assessment tool and access strengths-based resources.

Martha and her colleague, Connie Plowman, PMP®, wrote the book, Developing Strength-Based Project Teams, which equips project managers to begin developing strengths-based teams. Martha is also a content contributor to the text book, Contemporary Project Management, written by Tim Kloppenborg and others, and published by Cengage. 

Martha's education includes her undergraduate work, studying sociology and accounting. She then passed the CPA exam and worked as a nonprofit accountant.  While working as an accountant and volunteering in her community, she learned to value the talents of the people working with her and became aware of the need for businesses and volunteer organizations to offer more opportunities for personal talent and strengths development toward maximizing organizational members' collective talents and strengths to meet team and organizational goals.   

Martha went on to earn her Master of Arts Degree from Saint John’s University in Minnesota. While working on her master’s degree, she attended several Gallup CliftonStrengths® trainings and integrated strengths philosophy with her graduate work.  She now uses her education, Gallup training, and career and volunteer experiences as she provides strengths education opportunities to individuals, educators, and leaders. 

Martha believes that strengths education is a key component for strengths development for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities. When people fully engage in strengths development, they are equipped to use their talents and strengths in all aspects of their lives, whether at work, engaging in service opportunities, practicing one's faith, caring for one's family and community, and/or shaping society for the common good. Therefore, Martha accompanies her clients as they learn to name, claim, and invest in their talents so that they can develop and aim their strengths toward achieving their personal and/or team goals. She also equips educators and organizational leaders to create and sustain a strengths-based organizational culture.

"Human talent may be one of the most sustainable, renewable forms of natural energy."

~ Curt Liesveld