Create contexts that engage employees maximally from positions of strength. To do so, it is important to enable employees of diverse perspectives and backgrounds to bring their best selves to work – leveraging their unique strengths and experiences to make valuable, authentic contributions to their organizations.

Bringing one’s best self to work requires that the individual and the employing organization take responsibility. The individual must recognize that s/he is an agent of change, who has a personal responsibility to:

1. see him/herself as a valuable contribution and
2. create an environment where others experience him/her and themselves as such.

Likewise, leaders must create an organizational culture that invites and appreciates the unique contributions that employees bring.