Personality-Engineered Career Strategy

What got you here won't get you there.

The strategy is rarely where it breaks. The execution is. For your next jump, 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 install guardrails before it happens.

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Built on 15 years of peer-reviewed research on executive personality
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The Real Bottleneck

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.

What You Get

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.

01

Personality-Informed Roadmap

A four-phase strategic plan with concrete actions, deadlines, and success indicators, calibrated to your wiring.

02

HPI / HDS / MVPI Integration

Cross-assessment tables showing where day-to-day style, derailer risks, and core values will collide with your strategy.

03

Derailer Action Plan

Behavioral guardrails for your specific high-risk derailers, with Weekly Cascade Checks and 24-Hour Hold protocols.

04

Target Opportunity Brief

Research done on your specific target organization, leadership, salary benchmarks, and the relationships that matter.

05

Quick Reference Card

Your top 3 strengths to lean on, top 3 derailer risks to watch, and 5 execution rules for the whole campaign.

06

Day 1 Plan Blueprint

The proof-of-concept document you arrive with. Candidates with a résumé get passed. Candidates with a plan get offers.

How It Works

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.

1

Choose Your Tier

Pick Standard or Premium. Pay securely. You'll be sent a confidential intake link within minutes.

2

Share Your Context

Upload your résumé, the roles you're targeting, and a brief on your career intent. Five questions, fifteen minutes.

3

Complete Hogan

Take the full Hogan suite online (about 90 minutes total). Already taken it? Upload your existing scores instead.

4

Receive Your Roadmap

Get your full deliverable in 2 to 3 weeks. Premium includes a 90-minute 1:1 with an executive coach to walk through it.

OP
Dr. Oleg Petrenko, PhD
Rath Chair in Strategic Management
University of Oklahoma
Who Builds Your Roadmap

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 the Hogan Assessment Suite, the personality instrument used by most Fortune 500 companies for leadership selection. Dr. Petrenko's framework on how executive personality drives strategic outcomes shapes every recommendation in your report. Premium tier engagements include a private debrief with him directly.

15
Years of Research
24
Peer-Reviewed Publications
316K+
Subjects Studied
Pricing

Two tiers, one outcome: a roadmap that accounts for who you are under pressure.

Both tiers include the full assessment suite, complete report, and target opportunity research. Premium adds executive coaching, a custom HTML report site, and 30-day follow-up support for the highest-stakes moves.

Standard
For leaders running a high-stakes job search who want the complete blueprint.
$1,497 one-time
Placeholder price, adjust before launch
  • Full Hogan assessment suite (HPI / HDS / MVPI)
  • Complete personality-informed roadmap report (PDF)
  • Derailer Action Plan with Weekly Cascade Check
  • Target Opportunity Brief on your primary employer
  • Quick Reference Card (strengths, risks, execution rules)
  • Email support for clarification questions
Start with Standard
Most Popular
Premium
For the highest-stakes moves: executive transitions, founding roles, and board-level recruits.
$3,997 one-time
Placeholder price, adjust before launch
  • Everything in Standard, plus:
  • 90-minute private debrief with Dr. Oleg Petrenko, PhD
  • Custom HTML report site (sharable, password-protected)
  • 30-day follow-up support (4 check-ins by email)
  • Day 1 Plan blueprint tailored to your target role
  • Negotiation prep brief for your offer conversation
Start with Premium
FAQ

Common questions before you start.

I already took Hogan. Do I need to retake it?
No. If you have HPI, HDS, and MVPI results from within the past five years, you can upload them during intake and we'll work from those. We'll discount the assessment cost from your invoice.
How long does this take from start to finish?
Two to three weeks from completed intake to final deliverable. The Hogan assessment takes about 90 minutes of your time. Premium tier adds a coaching call scheduled in the week after delivery.
Is this just career coaching with a personality test bolted on?
No. This is personality-engineered execution architecture for high-stakes career moves. Every action in your roadmap accounts for your specific Hogan profile: what energizes you, what drains you, and which derailers will activate under search-process pressure. When personality and strategy collide, the coaching isn't to change the strategy. It's to add guardrails.
What if I'm not sure of my next role yet?
That's exactly what the intake is for. We help you define three role tiers (Primary, Stretch, and Bridge) so you have a clear hierarchy of targets and a fallback that still moves you forward. You don't need a perfect target to start; you need a defensible direction.
Do I have to be an executive to benefit from this?
No. The methodology serves anyone making a high-stakes career jump: senior individual contributors moving into leadership, mid-career professionals pivoting industries, executives positioning for a board seat, and founders preparing to hire their replacement. If the stakes are high and the wrong move costs years, this is built for you.
Is my data confidential?
Yes. Your Hogan scores, résumé, and roadmap are kept strictly confidential. We do not share, sell, or use your data for marketing. Reports are delivered through encrypted links and deleted from our systems 90 days after delivery on request.

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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