Elaina Conrad
Senior Advisor, Strategy + Impact
What inspires me
Learning from an array of experiences, voices, and sources to drive sustainable impact.
In Demand Skills
Writing for a variety of audiences and topics, drawing out themes and connections, and grounding big ideas in reality.
Memorable Moment @ Frontier
Connecting with highly mission-driven clients and getting to design impactful solutions to challenges.
Adage
“The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.” — Misty Copeland
Bio
Elaina comes from a background in international development with a focus on policy and communications. She has worked in a variety of sectors from federal agencies to global nonprofits to local startups, with an emphasis throughout on systems thinking and evidence-based decision-making. Her variety of both professional and personal experiences has been driven by a lifelong love of learning and of drawing connections and insights from unlikely sources.
Frontier uses this assessment to identify our unique strengths and maximize our teamliness - how we collaborate effectively as cross-functional teams. We often pair colleagues with opposite strengths to turbocharge our creativity and impact.
Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies have used the CliftonStrengths assessment to improve their workplace and meaningfully engage their employees.
Elaina’s Clifton Strengths
Learner
People exceptionally talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
Intellection
People exceptionally talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.
Strategic
People exceptionally talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.
Ideation
People exceptionally talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Input
People exceptionally talented in the Input theme have a need to collect and archive. They may accumulate information, ideas, artifacts, or even relationships.