The Kairos Assessment
See how your mind works best.
Most productivity systems are built for how people should work. The Kairos Assessment reveals how you actually do, so your GTD® system feels natural even under pressure.
Your Cognitive Blueprint
Six channels of attention, mapped in 53 questions.
- 01Thinker
- 02Listener
- 03Observer
- 04Mover
- 05Reader
- 06Talker
Isolates cognition from personality and emotion. Included in every GTD Focus coaching program.
Why It Matters
Losing focus, feeling overwhelmed, struggling to stay consistent. Most of that friction isn't a lack of discipline. It's the result of working against how your brain takes in information.
Think of it like handedness. It doesn't limit what you can achieve, but it changes how you perform best.
What Happens With Your Results
You don’t decode it alone. That’s what your coach is for.
01
Your coach starts already oriented
Instead of spending early sessions figuring out how you engage with information, your coach arrives knowing what raises and lowers your energy, what activates your attention, and where friction is likely to show up.
02
You can name the friction
If you’ve tried GTD on your own and hit a wall, your profile shows why: the Weekly Review, your list structure, your tools, or how you clarify. Then you adjust your setup instead of pushing through the same resistance.
03
You share a language
“I just can’t stick with the Weekly Review” becomes a specific, grounded adjustment you and your coach can solve together.
01
Your coach starts already oriented
Instead of spending early sessions figuring out how you engage with information, your coach arrives knowing what raises and lowers your energy, what activates your attention, and where friction is likely to show up.
02
You can name the friction
If you’ve tried GTD on your own and hit a wall, your profile shows why: the Weekly Review, your list structure, your tools, or how you clarify. Then you adjust your setup instead of pushing through the same resistance.
03
You share a language
“I just can’t stick with the Weekly Review” becomes a specific, grounded adjustment you and your coach can solve together.
Not a standalone quiz
Built into every program you move through.
Your first program
Wherever you start, your profile guides how your coach helps you sets up your tools, so your system fits the way you take in information from day one.
As you move up
In each program that follows, your profile explains why certain habits stick or slip as your system grows, so you can adjust your approach rather than forcing it.
Not a standalone quiz
Built into every program you move through.
Your first program
Wherever you start, your profile guides how your coach helps you sets up your tools, so your system fits the way you take in information from day one.
As you move up
In each program that follows, your profile explains why certain habits stick or slip as your system grows, so you can adjust your approach rather than forcing it.
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.
“It produces 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
Creator of GTD®
Two Ways to Start
Take it on its own, or let it shape your coaching.
The Assessment
Get your cognitive profile
Complete the 53 questions online and receive your full profile across all six channels.
With Coaching
Turn your profile into a system
Included in every coaching program. Your coach reviews your results before your first session and builds your system around them.
Design a system that works with your mind, not against it.
On a short call we’ll look at where your current workflow gets stuck, then map a coaching path built around how your mind works best.
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