How you perceive
See the filters and preferences shaping what you notice, overlook and treat as significant.
Identity Compass Profiling
See how your mind works — and where it can grow.
The Identity Compass makes the patterns behind your decisions, motivation and communication visible. Understand how you currently construct your experience, then use that insight to think and respond with greater flexibility.
Web profile £495
£800
including a 60-minute feedback session
- 50 Cognitive Intentions
- Individual and team profiles
- Confidential expert debrief
What it reveals
A clearer view of the thinking behind what you do.
Most assessments describe behaviour. The Identity Compass goes beneath behaviour to explore the cognitive preferences and motivational patterns influencing it. It is not a label or a fixed personality type; it is a practical map for awareness and development.
How you decide
Understand the patterns influencing motivation, judgement, communication and action.
How you can develop
Identify where greater awareness and flexibility could expand your available responses.
Built around your context
One instrument. Two powerful perspectives.
Use the profile for personal development or combine individual results to understand the patterns shaping a team and its working environment.
For individuals
Move beyond a generic personality label. See how you currently organise information, create motivation and respond to the demands around you.
- Reveal everyday thinking preferences and blind spots
- Improve communication, decisions and self-awareness
- Give coaching a precise developmental starting point
- Turn insight into practical, contextual experiments
For teams and organisations
See the collective patterns affecting collaboration, challenge, engagement and decision-making—without reducing people to a single team type.
- Compare individual, role and team-level patterns
- Surface strengths, tensions and underused capacity
- Inform leadership, recruitment and role alignment
- Design workshops around evidence from the team itself
How it works
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STEP 03
From questionnaire to useful insight.
A clear three-step process turns your responses into a profile you can understand and apply.
Complete your profile
Answer the online Identity Compass questionnaire in your own time and from your own perspective.
See the patterns
Your responses are mapped across 50 Cognitive Intentions and presented in a detailed visual report.
Make sense of them
Dr Stevens explains the important patterns and helps you identify useful next steps for your context.
Web profile offer
Your thinking, made visible.
Start with an individual profile and a focused expert debrief. You will leave with a clearer view of the patterns shaping how you think and practical areas to explore.
£495
Normally £800Quote “WEB” when booking
- Your personalised Identity Compass profile
- A detailed visual map of relevant thinking patterns
- A private 60-minute feedback session with Dr Darren Stevens
- Developmental observations connected to your context
Your results are treated confidentially. Team and organisational work is scoped separately.
Research-informed interpretation
Profiled by the researcher who took the work further.
Dr Darren Stevens used Identity Compass data within his doctoral research and the development of Constructed Development Theory. Your feedback therefore connects the profile to a wider account of awareness, cognitive complexity and vertical development—not simply a list of scores.
14,000+
profiles in the research dataset informing Darren’s hypotheses and developmental work.
Organisational perspective
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See what may be driving—or draining—performance.
The Job Motivation Edition can help leaders explore the conditions influencing engagement and how different people may experience the same working environment.
Autonomy
Influence, significance, contribution and ownership.
Security
Recognition, development, belonging and stability.
Challenge
Whether work stretches, supports or overwhelms.
Energy
Signals associated with burnout, boreout and resilience.
Engagement
Where effort is productive, inert, resistant or resigned.
Questions
Before you book.
A profile is most useful when you know what it is—and what it is not.
Is this a personality test?
It is a profiling instrument, but it does not reduce you to a fixed type. It maps current cognitive and motivational preferences that can vary in strength and can be explored developmentally.
What will I receive?
You receive your personalised Identity Compass output and a private 30-minute feedback session with Dr Stevens. The debrief focuses on the patterns most relevant to your goals and context.
Is my profile confidential?
Individual results are treated confidentially. For team work, the way individual and collective information will be used is agreed in advance.
Can this be used with a whole team?
Yes. Identity Compass can support individual, role and team-level work. Organisational projects are designed around team size, purpose and the decisions the organisation needs to inform.
What happens after I enquire?
Darren will confirm whether an individual or team profile is the right fit, explain the next steps and arrange access to the questionnaire and feedback session.
Your next step
Make the invisible structure of your thinking visible.
Book your individual profile or start a conversation about applying Identity Compass across a team.