Rachel Wainer is a values-driven workshop facilitator, instructional designer and Gallup Certified CliftonStrengths coach with 15 years of experience in learning and development. Rachel designs and delivers workshops through her consulting firm Rachel Wainer Consulting and as an instructional designer and faculty member with the American Management Association.

Rachel’s goal is for each workshop experience to have a lasting impact on individuals’ and teams’ performance and wellbeing. She skillfully combines modern, research-driven content and learning methodologies with masterful facilitation to teach her clients how to make the most of their talents through strengths development and evidence-based management skills.

Rachel's background in education, training, and adult learning provides a rich understanding of development. Her early experience as a college student affairs professional involved the successful creation of University-wide interventions to decrease the harm of drug and alcohol use and to lower the rates of campus sexual violence.

Rachel then established her expertise in workplace leadership as a training facilitator for the New York City public agencies where she trained team leads on personality styles, communication, challenging conversations, goal setting, performance coaching and feedback, intergenerational dynamics, and supervision fundamentals. For the NYC School Construction Authority she created and led the Challenging Conversations in the Workplace and Fearless Feedback seminars that helped managers at all levels create a culture of honest feedback and rich dialogue. Rachel then joined the faculty of the American Management Association and designed the courses How to Manage Challenging Conversations and Psychological Safety: An Imperative for High Performing Teams, which she also teaches.

Rachel is a faculty member for the American Management Association and is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths coach, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) practitioner, and TRACOM Social Style practitioner. She earned an M.S. in Education from The College of Saint Rose, a B.A. in Organizational Communication from Marist College, and earned the certificate for Foundations of Positive Psychology by UPenn. She is also trained in Nature Informed Therapy through The Center for Nature Informed Therapy.

She lives in the NYC Metro Area with her husband and three children and enjoys gardening, camping, playing softball, road tripping, and American history.