What got you here won't get you there.
The strategy is rarely where it breaks. The execution is. Whether you're aiming for the next level or stuck one rung short, knowing the playbook isn't enough. You need to know who you are under pressure, where your wiring will quietly sabotage you, and how to build guardrails before it does.
The instruments behind your profile are used in Fortune 500 leadership selection. We bring that science to your individual career.
- 3 validated instruments
- Peer-reviewed science
- Read by a PhD, not an algorithm
At this level, your résumé is not the problem.
Everyone in the room is qualified. What separates the people who land the role from the people who almost did is usually not strategy but the personality wiring that hijacks execution when the stakes are highest.
Your résumé is not the bottleneck.
At the senior and executive level, everyone you're competing against is qualified on paper. Credentials get you considered. They don't get you chosen.
Your personality is the variable.
The same traits that earned you the next-level opportunity quietly sabotage the execution. When personality and strategy collide, the strategy almost always loses.
Generic coaching can't see it.
Without an objective personality lens, you're guessing about your own blind spots, and the coach across the table is guessing too. Insight without data is just opinion.
Three lenses, not one quiz.
Most tools hand you one score from one questionnaire. We read you through three validated instruments, then a PhD interprets where they converge and collide.
Hogan HDS
How you derail under pressure. The risk factors that surface exactly when the stakes are highest, and what to do before they cost you.
HEXACO
Your six core dimensions. The honest, research-grade map of how you are wired day to day, beyond a four-letter label.
SD-3
The darker tendencies. Where ambition, skepticism, and self-interest quietly help you or quietly cost you.
One quiz can't triangulate. Three instruments and an expert can.
A roadmap built from your real personality data, not generic advice.
Every recommendation is grounded in your Hogan scores. The deliverable is a complete operating system for your next career move, from positioning through negotiation, built around who you are under pressure.
Personality-Informed Roadmap
A four-phase strategic plan with concrete actions, deadlines, and success indicators, calibrated to your wiring.
HDS / HEXACO / SD-3 Integration
Cross-assessment tables reading your derailers under pressure (Hogan HDS), your core personality dimensions (HEXACO), and your dark-triad tendencies (SD-3), and where each will collide with your strategy.
Derailer Action Plan
Behavioral guardrails for your specific high-risk derailers, with Weekly Cascade Checks and 24-Hour Hold protocols.
Target Opportunity Brief
Research done on your specific target organization, leadership, salary benchmarks, and the relationships that matter.
Quick Reference Card
Your top 3 strengths to lean on, top 3 derailer risks to watch, and 5 execution rules for the whole campaign.
Day 1 Plan Blueprint
The proof-of-concept document you arrive with. Candidates with a résumé get passed. Candidates with a plan get offers.
From sign-up to roadmap in two to three weeks.
A simple, structured process. Choose your tier, share your context, complete the assessment, and receive a personality-engineered roadmap built around your wiring rather than someone else's playbook.
Choose Your Tier
Pick Standard or Premium. Pay securely. You'll be sent a confidential intake link within minutes.
Share Your Context
Upload your résumé, the roles you're targeting, and a brief on your career intent. Five questions, fifteen minutes.
Complete Your Assessments
Take the three assessments online (Hogan HDS, HEXACO, and the SD-3), about an hour total. Already have recent Hogan HDS results? Upload them and we'll fold them in.
Debrief and Receive Your Report
Both tiers include a 90-minute private 1:1 debrief to walk through your results. Premium adds a strategic career roadmap and monthly check-ins over three months.
University of Oklahoma
Where the science of personality meets the practice of leadership.
"Most leadership failures are not strategy failures. They are personality failures."
For fifteen years, Dr. Petrenko's research has focused on a single question: what happens when we take the psychological profile of the person at the top as seriously as the business model they are running? His work appears in the field's leading academic journals, drawing on data from more than 316,000 subjects.
This roadmap puts that research into practice. Your profile is captured through validated instruments used in Fortune 500 leadership programs, the Hogan Development Survey (HDS), HEXACO, and the SD-3. Dr. Petrenko's framework on how personality drives strategic outcomes shapes every recommendation in your report. Premium tier engagements include a private debrief with him directly.
Dr. Pilgrim is the builder behind Career Intelligence. He holds a STEM PhD and has spent more than a decade turning complex data into decisions people can act on. He designs and runs the technology and the client experience, so the assessments, the expert debrief, and your plan arrive as one coherent product rather than a stack of disconnected reports.
Where this sits versus the alternatives.
| Feature | Career Intelligence | Free personality quiz | Generic career coaching |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruments | Three validated (HDS, HEXACO, SD-3) | One, often unvalidated | Usually none |
| Who interprets it | A PhD, in a 1:1 debrief | An automated report | A coach, without hard data |
| What you get | Written profile + custom plan | A generic type label | Advice, no profile |
| Grounded in | Peer-reviewed science | Pop psychology | Opinion and rapport |
| Follow-up | Expert debrief, both tiers | None | Sessions, no assessment spine |
Two tiers, one outcome: a roadmap that accounts for who you are under pressure.
Both tiers include the three-instrument assessment battery, a written personality summary, and a 90-minute private debrief. Premium adds the strategic career roadmap, monthly 1:1 check-ins over three months, and a custom plan refined after your debrief.
- Hogan HDS + HEXACO + SD-3 assessments
- Written personality summary report
- 90-minute private 1:1 expert debrief
- Email support for follow-up questions
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Strategic career roadmap (the full 11-step methodology)
- Derailer Action Plan, Target Opportunity Brief, and Quick Reference Card
- Monthly 1:1 check-ins across three months
- Custom plan refined after your debrief
- 90-minute private debrief with Dr. Oleg Petrenko, PhD
- Custom HTML report site (sharable, password-protected)
Not sure which tier fits? Start with a free 15-minute fit call. No card, no pressure.
Develop your leaders with science, together.
For universities, leadership programs, and workforce-development groups, we deliver the same validated assessments and expert debriefs as a cohort: shared measurement, a facilitated group debrief led by Dr. Petrenko, and leadership content built around your people.
- Group assessment battery (Hogan HDS, HEXACO, SD-3)
- Facilitated cohort debrief with Dr. Oleg Petrenko, PhD
- Leadership content tailored to your program
- Custom scope and pricing per engagement
Common questions before you start.
I already took Hogan. Do I need to retake it?
How long does this take from start to finish?
Is this just career coaching with a personality test bolted on?
What if I'm not sure of my next role yet?
Do I have to be an executive to benefit from this?
Is my data confidential?
The strategy is rarely where it breaks. The execution is.
Stop guessing at your own blind spots. Get a roadmap engineered around the person you are under pressure.
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