Personality Assessment
Understand What Drives You. Develop What Gets in Your Way.
Understand How You Naturally Take In Information, Make Decisions, and Approach the World
Personality type influences how you think, make decisions, communicate, manage emotions, respond to pressure, lead others, and navigate relationships. Understanding those patterns can help you recognize the strengths you naturally rely on, where they may be limiting you, and what you need to develop to become more effective.
I use the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), Striving Styles Personality System®, and Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i®) to provide different kinds of insight into personality, behavior, and emotional intelligence. Each can be used independently or as part of leadership coaching, team development, or personal and relationship development..
Personality Assessment & Self-Awareness
Personality assessment gives you a clearer understanding of how you are naturally wired to think, feel, make decisions, respond to people, and move through the world. Assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Striving Styles Personality Assessment go beyond describing your personality. They help you understand the mental functions and emotional needs that drive your behavior, including why some things come easily and why others remain challenging.
The real value comes from recognizing the patterns you cannot always see for yourself. You begin to understand what motivates you, what stresses you, how you protect yourself, what you need from others, and where your natural strengths can become limitations when overused.
With that understanding, you have a much clearer path for growth. Personality assessment helps you identify which of your capacities are already well developed and which need strengthening, so you can respond with greater choice rather than relying on the same automatic patterns.
Whether you want to improve your relationships, become a more effective leader, communicate more effectively, build satisfying relationships, or simply understand yourself more deeply, your assessment provides a practical framework for becoming more effective while remaining authentically yourself.
Chose the Assessment You Need
Different assessments answer different questions. The right one depends on what you want to understand and what you are trying to develop.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Understand Your Psychological Type
Discover the natural mental processes you rely on to take in information, make decisions, communicate, and approach your work and relationships.
The MBTI sorts the four Jungian psychological functions and identifies how they are organized within your personality. It provides a practical framework for understanding your natural preferences and why other people may perceive situations, reach conclusions, communicate, and approach problems very differently.
MBTI is especially useful when you want to increase self-awareness, understand personality differences, improve communication, strengthen working relationships, or help a team make better use of different ways of thinking.
Striving Styles Personality Assessment (SSPS)
Understand Your Psychological Type, Emotional Needs, Self-Protective & Self-Actualizing Behaviors
Go beyond psychological type to understand why you behave the way you do, what happens when you are under pressure, and what you need to develop to change patterns that are getting in your way.
Striving Styles is a comprehensive personality and development system that includes an assessment. The assessment establishes your Striving Styles personality profile, while the broader system connects that profile to your psychological needs, emotional drivers, natural strengths, self-protective behaviors, and developmental capacities.
This makes Striving Styles particularly valuable when you already understand what you should do differently but continue falling back into the same behaviors. Rather than simply identifying the pattern, the system helps uncover what is maintaining it and provides a roadmap for development..
Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i)
Understand How Emotional Intelligence Affects Your Effectiveness
See how effectively you understand and express yourself, manage emotions and stress, make decisions, and build relationships with others.
The EQ-i measures the emotional and social competencies that influence how you function personally and professionally. It can identify strengths you may be relying on effectively as well as areas that could be affecting your leadership, communication, resilience, decision-making, interpersonal effectiveness, or ability to manage challenging situations.
The results provide a practical starting point for developing the emotional intelligence capacities that will make the greatest difference to your effectiveness.
An Assessment Is Only as Valuable as What You Do With the Results
You can take a personality assessment and receive a report telling you about yourself.
Development requires more than that.
The real value comes from connecting what the assessment reveals to the behavior you are trying to understand or change.
As a Certified MBTI Practitioner and co-developer of the Striving Styles Personality System, I have spent decades working with personality, behavior, emotional development, leadership, teams, and relationships. I use assessment results to help you understand what is happening in the situations that actually matter to you.
That may mean understanding why you struggle to delegate, what happens when someone challenges your authority, why you avoid difficult conversations, why you continue taking responsibility for other people, what happens to your leadership under pressure, or why the same relationship pattern keeps repeating.
The assessment gives us information. The work we do with it turns that information into development.
