THE VQ Assessment
Understanding How You Think Changes Everything
Your success isn’t limited by what you know or what you can do. It’s shaped by how you think—how you make meaning, form judgments, prioritize decisions, and perceive opportunities and challenges.
Most assessments tell you about personality types, behavioral preferences, or how others see you. The VQ Assessment is different. It reveals how you actually think—and shows you how to leverage your cognitive strengths while avoiding the blind spots that limit your performance.
When you understand your thinking patterns, you can make better decisions, communicate more effectively, and lead with greater clarity and impact.
What the VQ Assessment Reveals
The VQ Assessment is an objective, scientifically-validated tool that measures how you make value judgments and prioritize information. It examines your thinking from 36 perspectives, revealing:
Cognitive Assets – Where your thinking is clearest and most effective
Cognitive Biases – Patterns of over-attention that can create blind spots
Thinking Liabilities – Areas of under-attention that may limit your effectiveness
Decision Patterns – How you prioritize, evaluate, and respond to complexity
Communication Style – How your thinking shapes how you connect with others
This isn’t about labeling you or putting you in a “type.” It’s about understanding the unique ways you process information, make decisions, and lead—so you can leverage your strengths and navigate around limitations.
Why the VQ Assessment Is Different
Scientifically Validated
The VQ Assessment is built on the research of Dr. Robert Hartman (nominated for the Nobel Prize) and validated by leading researchers worldwide for decades. Patrick integrates the latest advancements in neuroscience and psychology to dramatically increase the practical value of these insights.
Objective and Precise
Unlike personality tests that rely on self-reporting, the VQ Assessment measures how you actually think—not how you think you think, how you want to be perceived, or how you think others see you.
Immediately Actionable
Results include specific strategies for accessing your best thinking, avoiding cognitive traps, improving decision-making and relationships, and creating more valuable outcomes in work and life.
Reveals What Others Can’t
The VQ Assessment displays thinking patterns that personality profiles, behavioral assessments, interviews, and resumes cannot capture—giving you unprecedented insight into yourself, your team, and candidates.
How Organizations Use the VQ Assessment
Executive Development
Help high-potential leaders understand their thinking strengths and blind spots, improve decision-making speed and quality, and communicate with greater authority, influence, and value.
Team Performance
Identify how team members think, prioritize, and collaborate. Create alignment, reduce conflict, improve communication, and leverage diverse cognitive strengths for better results.
Hiring and Onboarding
Understand how candidates think and whether their cognitive patterns align with your organization’s culture and the role’s demands—improving hiring decisions and accelerating onboarding.
Leadership Coaching
Integrate VQ insights into executive coaching to create faster, more meaningful transformation in how leaders think, communicate, and lead.
Culture Transformation
Diagnose organizational thinking patterns, identify misalignment, and create strategies for strengthening culture, engagement, and performance enterprise-wide.
Conflict Resolution
Understand the thinking patterns driving interpersonal or team conflicts, then create strategies that address root causes rather than symptoms.
What You’ll Gain
Individuals:
- Clarity on your cognitive strengths and how to leverage them
- Understanding of blind spots that may be limiting your effectiveness
- Strategies for better decision-making and communication
- Ability to navigate stress and complexity more effectively
- Measurable improvements in leadership presence and impact
Organizations:
- Better hiring decisions based on cognitive fit, not just skills
- Improved team dynamics and collaboration
- Reduced conflict and miscommunication
- Stronger leadership capability across the organization
- Cultural alignment and higher engagement
The Quality of Your Life Is Determined by the Quality of Your Thinking
If you could objectively know which ways of thinking are your best and which create limitations, would you want to make better use of your cognitive strengths? Would engaging more of your best thinking make a difference in your work and life?
That’s what the VQ Assessment delivers.
Next Steps
Ready to understand how you think—and leverage that knowledge for better results?
The VQ Assessment is available as part of Patrick’s Executive Coaching Program, for leadership teams seeking alignment, or as a stand-alone tool for organizations improving hiring, team performance, or culture.
Schedule a Discovery Call.
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FACTS
The Assessment is a diagnosis of how and how well you think from 36 axiological perspectives. Depending on the day, you have 12,000 – 50,000 thoughts, all “processed” through one or a combination of these 36 scientifically-definable perspectives.
Using the “short scale” number system, the VQ Assessment has 36 categories with 4.1+ undecillion possible results. This is 4,102,069,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different ways to rank order, providing clarify in how you think.
Each perspective or “lens” is part of the “meaning-making, value-judging, story-telling, habit-dominated” machine in your unique “mind.” The assessment is extremely accurate, even if you do not initially agree with everything in your report.
It is possible that some of what the assessment suggests may not show up for you due to: (a) developed compensating habits or behaviors, or (b) the bias is simply a non-issue or not a liability at the moment, due to your current circumstances.
The better you understand yourself and your team, the more effectively you can lead, make better decisions, and take action that enables you to more easily achieve what you want to accomplish.
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Research tells us, most people have 4.7 times more Cognitive Biases/Liabilities than Valuable Thinking Assets.
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These Biases and Liabilities tend to drive or influence the vast majority of our behaviors; thus, our performance.
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Failure, under-performance, and cultural toxicity tends to arise from the negative influence of Cognitive Biases/Liabilities.
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Our best potential, engagement, and performance arises from thinking based on positive influence from Cognitive Assets.
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When you know Cognitive Assets, Biases, and Liabilities before hiring candidates, you will make better hiring decisions.
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It takes 15 minutes to understand your thinking. You will receive a 40+ page overview and a one-on-one walk-through of your assets and biases/liabilities, how to overcome them, and how to dramatically improve and leverage your thinking.
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