Talent Selection, Development & Advancement
Brilliant Research with 10,000 top performers, applied to 60,000+ participants = 85% predictive accuracy
Brilliant research with:
10,000 top performers quantified the behavioral algorithm that accurately predicts the likelihood of career success and fulfillment, specific to each of 2,500+ career roles, with 85% statistical accuracy.
Applying this scientific foresight to:
talent recruitment, selection, development, and advancement will equip you with deep insight into how employees can best contribute to personal and corporate success.
The predictive power of this foresight will enable you to exponentially enhance employee engagement and business performance.
Knowing in advance who will succeed in a job or leadership role elevates business performance exponentially. Enabling business transformation, talent selection, talent development, succession planning, and executive transition to deliver extraordinary business value.

Drive Enterprise Results, Engagement, and Fulfillment Exponentially!
Talent IQ™ Performance Matrix – Your Enterprise Talent.
Elevate corporate performance by knowing in advance who will be most effective in a job role.
Optimize employee engagement, impact and value!
Talent IQ™ Leverage our Talent IQ Matrix to align, select, develop and engage talent across your enterprise, optimizing the highest value for your employees and your organization.
Talent IQ™ transforms talent into your most powerful strategic advantage.
115 Performance Metrics for every employee capture the best career(s) fit, best leadership fit, team contribution capabilities, strategy strengths, high-performance indicators, development potential, agility, innovation, management best fit, customer relations, integrity + 25 additional performance measures.
Organizational Success
Organizational Success
Applied Brilliance is the capacity to accurately predict and develop career, team, and leadership success. This data-centric insight transforms talent into your most important strategic advantage!
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Our 85% predictive accuracy in forecasting employee career fit and fulfillment enables you to:
Help employees understand how and why they:
Will be most successful and engaged in specific career, management, and leadership roles.
Need to focus on specific behavioral strengths & skill gaps concerning their job role
Select the candidates who will best succeed in specific job/career roles
Align the right/best (i.e., most productive and engaged) talent with the right job roles
Identify your most effective current and future leaders
Know, in advance, which employees will return the highest ROI on your development $$
Equip employees to reskill effectively
Create and sustain the desired corporate culture
Strategically develop every employee with precise, laser-focused efficiency guided by quantifiable, meaningful outcomes.
The predictive power of knowing, with verifiable, empirical certainty, how and why employees and job candidates will excel enables you to enhance employee engagement and business performance exponentially.
Tap Into the Power of Your Behavioral DNA
Rigorous, scientific research with 10,000 top performers reveals a compelling, predictive relationship between behavioral skills, employee performance and corporate performance.
Unlock Brilliance. Tap into the Power of Behavioral DNA: The Secret Sauce of Career Success, Career Fulfillment and Corporate Results!
Expecting employees to be fully engaged and perform excellently without factoring their behavioral strengths into their job role(s) is like expecting a car to run without fuel.
Future Proof Your Career: Be Equipped to Thrive in an AI-Centric Workplace
1 & 2 “The Enterprise Gap to Closing the Skills Gap.” IBM Institute for Business Value, 2019
Future Proof Your Organization: Assess and Develop your capacity for Enterprise Agility
Competencies Required:
Sustains profits
Seeks Innovation
Embraces Change
Thrives In Chaos
Focus on Results
Drives Achievement
Identify and Engage the talent best equipped to lead transformational initiatives
Source: SuccessFinder Career Assessment
Future Proof Your Organization: MRI-like Focus on Behavioral Traits that Power Career, Leadership, and Team Success Accelerates Job Performance, Engagement and Learning; Generating High-Payoff Returns.
With Accurate Foreknowledge & Insight Invest Strategically in Talent Selection, Development and Advancement
High-Efficacy Learning Platform
Situational Coaching Deepens Behavioral Change
Identifying the behavioral traits you need to develop, specific to your job role
Using our interactive learning resources that require you to understand and apply behavioral tactics that strengthen your current gaps
Identifying work-specific situations in which you need to apply this learning
Rehearsing with you how to apply your new-found tactics in specific work situations
Reviewing the results of this field application with ongoing coaching to continue improving the application of these tactics on the job
Identifying and engaging management personnel and/or peer advisors who can provide an objective view of your progress in adopting these tactics successfully
Know the true leadership potential of any employee.
Compare your leadership potential with 1,000 top-performing managers and executives
Know why and how your leadership capabilities compare with high-performing leaders
Gain insight into the development steps necessary to enhance your leadership effectiveness.
Understand how you can:
best leverage your behavioral strengths to lead
develop the leadership behaviors that hold you back.
Exchange the art of leadership for the proven science of leadership.
Research with 10,000 top performers has forever improved the way leadership is defined, measured and developed; research insights that are yours for the asking.
Research with 10,000 top performers has forever improved the way leadership is defined, measured and developed; research insights that are yours for the asking.
Discover the leadership competencies required for 3 levels of leadership.
Your Personality is the Secret to your Leadership Success:
Based on empirical research with 40,000 direct participants and 2M+ research studies of Personality DNA:
“Choosing to be your true self will result in self-actualization and a leadership journey that gives you energy and gratification. Living Your Unique Personality's greatest contribution is opening your eyes about who you are and your commitment to become that authentic leader.”
Choose against your profound core nature, and you will embark on a leadership struggle with inner stress that consumes your energy and produces only personal frustration – and a high likelihood of career failure.”
- Larry Cash, Clinical Psychologist, and Dr. Carlos Davidovich, M.D.
Learn how your Personality DNA plays a key role in the efficacy of your leadership.
Compare your leaders to top performers from every industry vertical.
Measure their potential leadership against top performers from every industry vertical.
Optimize Leader Impact
Know precisely how best to develop leaders in relation to their individual leadership strengths and constraints
Based on benchmark data with 1,000 top executives we:
Predict the best leadership role for any individual
Identify leadership potential across the enterprise
Create a detailed development plan for current and high-potential leadership talent
Your personality DNA type is a critical success factor in how well you lead.
Like your blood type, research with 46,000,000 research projects indicates twelve dominant personality types.
To be most effective, leaders must lead from the strength of their dominant leader DNA type.
For all 12 key personality types from which employees lead – CLICK HERE.
Know in advance which leaders have the propensity to take on more responsibility and seniority
Personality DNA; Help your executives to lead from position of strengths; from their unique personality DNA, based on deep knowledge of who theyare and how they best leverage their unique personality in leadership based on database of 40,000
How do your leaders compare with top performing leaders? Are your leaders positioned in roles that tap into their full potential? How can you know, definitively, how best to develop each leader?
Based on benchmark data with 1,000 top executives we:
Predict the best leadership role for your employees
Create a detailed development plan to optimize your employees best leadership opportunities
How does your employees propensity to lead compare with proven high-performance leaders? Test them against the best.
Compare the leadership competencies of your current leaders with the leadership skills of top performing managers, directors and executives, CLICK HERE.
For a complete listing of the behavioral competencies required for leadership, CLICK HERE.
Screen for and identify employees with the potential to lead well.
Your personality DNA type is a critical success factor in how well you lead.
Like your employees blood type, research with 46,000,000 research projects indicates twelve dominant personality types.
To be most effective, leaders must lead from the strength of their dominant leader DNA type.
For all 12 key personality types from which employees lead, CLICK HERE.
Our leadership screening and selection includes five personality behavioral dimensions:
Measure the strength of the candidate's Personality Compatibility
Measure the candidate’s Predictor of Leadership Style Potential for the role sought
Measure the candidates' Predictor of Career Fit for the role sought
Measure alignment of the Predictor of Job Sector Fit for the role sought
Measure the Candidate's Predictor on Seven Employability Enhancement Factors:
Interpersonal Effectiveness
High Potential
Self-Improvement
Remote Work
Resilience
Agility
Work Ethic
Optimize Leader Impact:
The Agile Leader
Competencies Required:
Sustains profits
Seeks Innovation
Embraces Change
Thrives In Chaos
Focus on Results
Drives Achievement
Identify and Engage the talent best equipped to lead transformational initiatives
Source: SuccessFinder Career Assessment
Optimize Leader Impact with our
Complete Leader Series
Optimize Leader Impact
Effective leadership is predicated on accurate self-awareness and MRI-like understanding of the behavioral competencies required for effective leadership.
Effective leadership begins with the self-awareness necessary to know one’s behavioral strengths and constraints with specific leadership roles and related expectations, including:
The global leader
The complete leader
The complete strategist
The complete executive
The complete innovator
The complete communicator
The complete sales person
The complete team
The complete manager
For a profile on each click here…
Determine Your Adaptability Quotient (AQ) - CLICK HERE.
International research conducted in 2022 by the Harvard Business School Global Leadership Study identifies:
ten top leadership qualities required by leaders at all levels
seven qualities of character that motivate effective leaders
For a link to this report, contact us
The Talent Garden provides the singular, empirically sound method of measuring and developing these ten leadership qualities and seven qualities of character
Harvard Business School 2023 global leadership study results
Why does our selection and development of leaders consistently succeed when most efforts fail ?
Optimize Leader Impact
Remove the behavioral obstacles and leverage behavioral strengths that deliver exceptional team results
Optimize Team Effectiveness
References - Corporate/Enterprise
Corporate Performance (value to company/employer)
Leadership Effectiveness/Development
Coaching Expertise
Leads to new insights, opportunities and capabilities
Executive/CEO Experience
Personal development
Value to me as a leader
Team Leadership/Performance/Effectiveness
Professional and Personal Development/Growth
Personal and professional development
Insights gained
Career Plan/Direction/Success
Clarity of best career path/choices
Comparison with other tests
Pelly Shafto, VP HR & Organizational Development at Morrison Hershfield