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About Us
Our business is all about people. We are here to serve busy parents, leaders, educators, military service members, and their families who need better tools to restore and build deeper, more meaningful relationships at home, work, and school. We have developed the tools you need and we take pride in helping you find success in using them.
Meet the Team
VP of Organizational Learning, Master Trainer, Executive Coach
Rebecca Bockart
Rebecca Bockart has worked directly with families and children for over 25 years as an early childhood educator. She has played several roles within the education field acting as a lead teacher, preschool director, and private school owner. During her career Rebecca has acquired multiple certifications focused on learning differences and neurodiversity and effective classroom management. For the past 15 years Rebecca has worked as a ColorWorks certified Family Life Coach,
content developer, and the business’s lead corporate trainer.
Rebecca conducts leadership seminars for fortune 5oo companies, small businesses, and military organizations nationwide. Additionally, Rebecca helps families build stronger communication skills globally as a large group presenter, her sessions focus on the ColorWorks parenting skills and how better communication can restore family dynamics. She speaks with passion and humor, drawing from her own leadership experiences and from 25 years of observing the controlled chaos that is early childhood education. Rebecca is an Extrovert Orange/Green mother of two grown daughters and has been happily
married to her husband Clay for 28 years. For fun Rebecca adopts retired greyhounds and is a hiking and cheese enthusiast.
Owner and President of ColorWorks
​Master Trainer, Executive Coach, Author
Shannon Ward
Shannon Ward has been helping people build stronger relationships at work and at home since 1998. She earned a master’s degree in Family and Organizational Communication in 2002. She has over 25 years of expertise as a master trainer and executive coach including five years of experience as a Corporate Training / Organizational Development Manager with more than 100 hours certification training in personality types and temperament theory.
Shannon worked for five years to research, create, design, test, and teach a set of research-based communication courses that are now taught to parents, couples, educators, leaders and military families. Shannon also created three unique, original, proprietary communication-based models for improving relationships. She wrote a book, revised in 2018, called Parenting by Personality. She is currently working on a second book focused on teaching her proprietary stress management tool called C.A.L.M. to parents.
Shannon is an Extrovert Blue/Orange who has been happily married to Steve for over 40 years. She has two adult children and enjoys spending time with her 5 grandchildren and snuggling her 90 lb bernedoodle named Berni.
VP of Business Development
Marketing Specialist
Caitlyn Kruse
Cait Kruse is the newest member of the ColorWorks Group team. After earning her bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2014, she worked for the College of Business Administration at UNL as the Outreach Support Associate for two years where she designed web pages and promotional materials and developed department magazines. She joined ColorWorks in the Spring of 2016. She also has experience as a reading paraprofessional in the public school system and has gained great insight in the roles and responsibilities of teachers, and how to help children learn.
Caitlyn has been exposed to the ColorWorks program for over 20 years. She is excited to be a part of
the ColorWorks group and focuses on marketing for the company, including managing the website,
social media, and promotional campaigns. Caitlyn is currently in the process of becoming a certified
ColorWorks instructor and coach and is very excited to start helping build stronger families. Caitlyn,
an Orange/Green, is happily married with three lovely children.
History
For thousands of years, people have sought to understand the mechanisms behind human behavior. Early thinkers like Hippocrates and Plato identified four basic temperaments; and their insight has been supported by generations of research in social science and psychology. In the 1940s, the mother-daughter team of Myers and Briggs expanded on this foundational research, creating a matrix of sixteen personality types based on dimensions like how the individual processes their environment and information and where the individual focuses their attention and energy. This provided a more nuanced understanding of the 16 personality type combinations. Finally, in 1978, Don Lowery developed the True Colors personality profiling system, assigning colors to each of the four basic personality types, further simplifying and enhancing our understanding of human behavior.
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At Color Works, we blend the four colors Gold, Orange, Blue, and Green strategically, while incorporating an individual’s interaction style of Introvert or Extrovert. This approach creates 16 unique personality type combinations, each with distinct traits. Understanding these personality types can enhance self-awareness, strengthen relationships, improve communication, and foster more successful interactions in all areas of your life.