CliftonStrengths (also known as StrengthsFinder) is an assessment developed by Don Clifton while he was chairman of Gallup, Inc.
[1] Test takers are presented with paired statements and select the option they identify with best, then receive a report outlining the five strength areas they scored highest in, along with information on how to apply those strengths.
They identified four primary strength domains: executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking.
Within those domains, they identified 34 strength areas:[3] Between 2001 and 2012, approximately 600,000 people took the test annually.
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2015 that 467 companies on the Fortune 500 list were using CliftonStrengths.