I’ve spent years helping people understand themselves by using an assessment as the foundation.

And somewhere along the way, I realized I was doing something a little backwards.

I was taking someone else’s assessment and translating it into the way I actually see people.

I wasn’t really interested in telling someone what they ranked high or low in. I wasn’t interested in giving them another set of labels to remember.

I wanted to understand the person sitting in front of me.

How do you naturally make decisions?

What do you need before you can move forward?

Why can you handle uncertainty in one situation but desperately want clarity in another?

Why do some relationships feel easy while others seem to require so much effort?

What happens when two completely natural parts of you pull in different directions?

Those were the conversations I kept wanting to have.

So eventually I had to ask myself a pretty obvious question:

Why am I trying to make an existing assessment fit the work instead of creating something that fits the work from the beginning?

That question started a much bigger project than I anticipated.

I began pulling apart what I had learned from years of conversations with people, the patterns I notice, the distinctions that matter, the places people tend to misunderstand themselves and one another.

And I started building my own way of noticing those patterns.

Not to tell you who you are.

To help us have a much better conversation about how you go about being you.

I’ve now had my first few conversations using it, and something about them feels different.

There’s less explaining a system.

More talking about the person.

And I think that’s what I was trying to create all along.

A way to put the assessment in the background and you in the foreground.

Different doesn’t mean wrong.

Sometimes it just finally needs to make sense.