The Kairos Assessment

Most productivity systems are built for how people should work. The Kairos Assessment reveals how you actually do.

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Your Cognitive Blueprint

Much of the friction people experience—losing focus, feeling overwhelmed, and struggling to stay consistent—isn't a lack of discipline. It is the result of trying to work against how your brain processes information. The Kairos Assessment is a 53-question profile included in every one of our coaching programs. It isolates cognition from personality and emotion, mapping how your attention activates and filters information across six key channels:

Thinker

Listener

Observer

Mover

Reader

Talker

Think of it like handedness. It doesn't limit what you can achieve, but it dramatically changes how you perform best.

How It Accelerates Your Coaching

Once you finish the assessment, your coach dives into your cognitive profile to prepare for your first session. There’s no need to decode the data on your own—that’s exactly what your coaching is for. Together, you’ll use these results to:

Get a head start with your coach

Instead of spending your first few sessions figuring out how you process information, your coach arrives already oriented to your cognitive preferences and potential friction points.

Identify and solve system friction

If you have tried implementing GTD on your own and hit a wall, your profile makes it possible to name exactly why, allowing us to adjust your setup rather than pushing through the same resistance.

Establish a shared, objective language

Instead of struggling with vague statements like "I can't stick to a Weekly Review," both of you can target specific, grounded, and solvable workflow adjustments.

What Happens With Your Results

Once you complete the assessment, your coach reviews your full cognitive profile before your first session. You don't need to interpret it on your own, that's what the coaching is for.


In practice, your results do three things:

They Give Your Coach a Head Start

Rather than spending the early sessions

figuring out how you engage with information, your coach arrives already oriented to your preferences, such as where your attention activates, where it requires more effort, and where friction is most likely to show up as you build your system.

They Give You a Framework for Approaching the Friction.

Most people who come to GTD coaching have already tried implementing GTD on their own and have hit a wall. Your Kairos profile makes it possible to name why, whether it's the weekly review, the wrong list structure, your tools, or the clarifying process, and to adjust the approach accordingly rather than pushing through the same resistance.

They Put You and Your Coach on the Same Page.

The profile gives both of you shared language for the work. Instead of "I just can't seem to stick with the weekly review," the conversation becomes specific, grounded, and solvable.

Woven Into Every Level

The Kairos Assessment is not a standalone quiz. It is built directly into our entire coaching methodology, guiding how we help you configure your toolsets in Level 1, and explains why certain habits stick or slip as we scale your system in later levels.

GTD Founder David Allen

"Discovering what is really under the hood of your car can make a world of difference in how you drive and utilize its power. The Kairos Assessment does the same thing for the mind, producing awareness for creating the best strategies for our own thinking and working. It has been a brilliant resource for me personally, as well as for hundreds of our clients." – David Allen (Founder of GTD)

Design a system that works with your Cognition, not against it

Let’s connect for a brief call to discuss your current workflow bottlenecks, and map out a coaching path tailored to exactly how your mind is wired.

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