The Emergenetics® Profile:

The Emergenetics® Profile is a scientifically developed psychometric assessment that maps how you prefer to think and how you prefer to behave, across seven attributes. Completing your Profile gives you clear, everyday language for the strengths you already bring to work: how you take in information, reach decisions, and connect with the people around you.

When team members don’t understand how differently they’re wired, collaboration becomes harder than it needs to be. Assumptions are made. Meetings frustrate more than they resolve. Good ideas get lost because they’re presented in the wrong way to the wrong people.

Emergenetics brings together emerge and genetics; a reminder that who you are has grown from both your inherited wiring and your lived experience.

Drawing on research with thousands of people, organisational psychologist Tasha Eurich found that people who see themselves clearly tend to be more confident and creative, make sounder decisions, build stronger relationships, and communicate more effectively. 

The same research shows how much room most of us have to grow: around 95% of people believe they are self-aware, while roughly 10–15% genuinely are. 

Self-Awareness as an Asset

When colleagues understand their own preferences and can recognise those of others, they gain a shared vocabulary that makes collaboration smoother and everyday misunderstandings quicker to resolve.

This feeds directly into performance. Harvard Business Review research by Alison Reynolds and David Lewis found that teams with greater cognitive diversity — differences in perspective and information-processing style — solved complex problems faster, while teams whose members all thought in similar ways sometimes struggled to finish at all.

A peer-reviewed study of cognitive-style diversity likewise links a mix of thinking styles to stronger team learning over time. Eurich’s work adds the leadership dimension: leaders who see themselves clearly tend to run teams with more satisfied employees and are associated with more profitable organisations.

Emergenetics gives an organisation a practical way to see and use the diversity of thought it already employs.

The profile is based on completion of an online questionnaire. They then receive a personalised Profile report with a consistent structure. Here’s what’s in it.

The Thinking pie chart. A single circle split into four colours — Blue (Analytical), Green (Structural), Red (Social) and Yellow (Conceptual). It’s derived from your percentile scores and shows the percentage mix of where you prefer to put your mental energy, so the four slices add up to 100%. Anything above 23% is read as a genuine preference.

The Thinking bar charts. Four coloured bars, one per Thinking Attribute, shown as percentiles so you can see at a glance how strongly you lean into Analytical, Structural, Social and Conceptual thinking, and how that compares with the wider population.

The Behavioural bar charts. Shown in shades of purple for the three Behavioural Attributes: Expressiveness, Assertiveness and Flexibility. Each sits on a spectrum expressed as a percentile, and each spectrum is divided into thirds — first-third (0–33%), second-third (34–66%) and third-third (67–100%) — which describe how much of the time you’re comfortable operating in that mode.

Written interpretation. Alongside the graphics, the report carries narrative text describing how you approach problem-solving, conflict and group settings, along with ideal environments and communication styles.

Emergenetics+ access. After the assessment, participants get access to the on-demand Emergenetics+ portal and mobile app, where they can get tailored communication strategies for working with colleagues, build team groups for shared insights, and use guides that apply their preferences to everyday work.