Personal Development Coaching for Professionals and Leaders
Your Journey, Your Life
Everyone is different. The human experience is unique to the individual. So our solutions have to serve that uniqueness.
The Problem
Career Clarity and Direction
Talent Self-Awareness
Personal Effectiveness
Leadership Skills
Workplace Stress
Emotional Intelligence
Solutions
Assessments
One-on-One Coaching
Career Matching Diagnostics and Coaching
Leadership Development
Personal Skills Development
Work-Life Balance Coaching
Assessments
All of our work with our clients involves some level of talent diagnostic work. We use highly reliable, valid and extremely insightful assessments provided by TTI Success Insights, a leading global provider of talent assessments and organizational diagnostic tools.
Talent Insights
TriMetrix HD Talent
Emotional Quotient
Workplace Stress Quotient
DISC
One-on-One Coaching
We partner with you to focus coaching that meets your goals.
Depending on the focus, we have proven approaches and outlines to achieve your goals.
• Goal specific programs
• 3-Month programs
• 6-Month programs
• Career Matching and Evaluation
• College Student Career Launch
• Leader/Manager Development
See our most popular areas of focus below.
Customized Offerings
Everyone is unique. Success Discoveries offers customized goal-specific assessments and coaching.
Let us design a laser-focused budget-friendly coaching proram for you. Ask for details.
Below are our most popular standard offerings (tap to jump to that offering):
Talent Assessment and Development Sprint™
Accelerate Your Potential and Career Trajectory Through Advanced Talent Analytics and Expert Executive Debriefing.
True career breakthroughs require objective diagnostic clarity, not subjective guesswork. Ambitious professionals and executives frequently encounter developmental plateaus where hard work and technical expertise alone no longer produce results. Persistent performance hurdles are rarely caused by a lack of effort; they stem from unexamined behavioral blind spots, misaligned motivational drivers, distorted situational judgment, and unmanaged emotional reactions under workplace stress.
Most accessible workplace assessments fail to address these challenges. Basic, single-dimension evaluations capture only superficial communication styles, leaving professionals blind to the deeper motivational engines, cognitive patterns, and emotional dynamics that truly drive performance. At the same time, full-scale executive coaching programs often require multi-month retainers and long-term calendar commitments that can be difficult to balance during urgent career transitions or pivotal performance reviews.
The Talent Assessment and Development Sprint™ offers a cost-effective focused, intensive solution. By combining the enterprise-caliber TriMetrix® HD and Emotional Quotient™ (EQ) diagnostic suites with a targeted two-hour debriefing led directly by Carl Nielson, this offering provides comprehensive talent clarity within a single, high-velocity engagement.
The Solution: A Five-Science Assessment Suite and Strategic Consultation
The Talent Assessment and Development Sprint pairs the leading diagnostic systems developed by TTI Success Insights with senior-level executive coaching. Rather than examining a single slice of personality, this program evaluates the whole person through five integrated disciplines, answering the critical questions of How, Why, Can, What, and Emotional Management.
The diagnostic foundation includes:
The TriMetrix® HD Assessment Suite: A comprehensive 55-factor evaluation analyzing DISC Behaviors (The How), 12 Driving Forces® (The Why), the Acumen Capacity Index® (The Can), and 25 DNA Workplace Competencies (The What).
The Emotional Quotient™ (EQ) Assessment: A specialized diagnostic measuring five core dimensions of emotional intelligence, including intrapersonal capabilities (Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Motivation) and interpersonal dynamics (Empathy, Social Skills) that govern composure and collaboration.
Following completion of the online assessments, participants engage in an intensive, two-hour virtual debriefing and advisory session with Carl Nielson. With more than 40 years of human capital management expertise, organizational psychology credentials, and decades of advising Fortune 50 leadership, Carl translates complex psychometric data into an actionable roadmap tailored to your specific career and leadership goals.
We ensure development continues beyond the debriefing.
Programmatic Benefits
Participants in the Talent Assessment and Development Sprint gain immediate, measurable clarity:
Radical, Multi-Dimensional Self-Awareness: Understand how outward communication styles interact with inner motivational drivers and emotional responses, allowing you to adapt your approach, resolve friction, and build lasting influence.
Objective Decision-Making Clarity: Identify and understand subconscious biases and evaluate your situational judgment through axiology-based Acumen analytics, strengthening your strategic decision-making in high-stakes environments.
Focused Skill Prioritization: Benchmark your proficiency across 25 professional soft skills to concentrate developmental effort on the competencies that deliver the highest professional return.
Strengthened Composure and Influence: Gain a clear understanding of your emotional triggers to maintain composure, communicate with empathy, and lead effectively through organizational pressure.
An Actionable Developmental Blueprint: Conclude your debriefing with an individualized development action plan that aligns with your near-term career milestones and long-term goals.
Engagement Architecture and Investment
Component | Offering Specifications |
Talent Diagnostic Battery | Complete TriMetrix® HD Profile (DISC, 12 Driving Forces, Acumen Capacity Index, 25 DNA Competencies) plus Emotional Quotient™ (EQ) Diagnostic. |
Comprehensive Dossier | Over 100 pages of in-depth psychometric data, personalized developmental narratives, and cross-science synthesis. |
Strategic Advisory Debrief | 2-hour virtual one-on-one debriefing and developmental strategy session led directly by Carl Nielson. |
Delivery Model | Secure, online assessment administration followed by prompt scheduling within 3 to 5 business days. Following the debriefing, you'll receive a Professional Development Plan and with selected skill development tutorials (pdf mini-workbooks). |
Investment | $895 (Complete diagnostic suite, two-hour consultation and skill development plan with tutorials included; major credit cards and PayPal accepted). |
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The Problem
Diagnostic Deficits, Cognitive Blind Spots, and Developmental Stagnation
Professional stagnation and leadership friction rarely stem from technical deficiencies or an absence of ambition. Instead, performance plateaus are driven by unexamined behavioral patterns, misaligned inner motivators, distorted cognitive acumen, and uncalibrated emotional responses to workplace stress.
The Limitations of Single-Science and Superficial Psychometrics
The contemporary marketplace is saturated with single-dimension psychometric tests and self-reported personality inventories that deliver an incomplete view of human potential. Popular instruments such as basic personality typologies or standalone behavioral surveys capture only observable tendencies—the superficial "how" of human interaction. These instruments fail to explain why individuals pursue specific objectives, how clearly they process external and internal information, what developed soft skills they leverage under duress, or how effectively they regulate disruptive emotional states.
When professionals make high-stakes career decisions or leadership adjustments based on fragmented diagnostic data, structural misalignment inevitably follows. A professional whose outward behavioral style appears highly assertive may nevertheless experience profound operational exhaustion if their daily tasks actively conflict with their core motivational drivers. Single-science diagnostics lack the structural depth required to expose these underlying points of friction.
The Feedback Vacuum and Cognitive Blind Spots
As professionals ascend in authority and complexity, candid and objective feedback precipitously diminishes. Executives, managers, and independent professionals operate within self-reinforcing echo chambers where direct reports, peers, and organizational stakeholders often withhold candid critique. In the absence of an objective external baseline, professionals develop cognitive blind spots regarding their strategic judgment, situational awareness, and interpersonal impact.
Deficits in emotional self-regulation and empathetic communication often counteract intellectual strength, leading to strained organizational dynamics, defensive posturing, and stalled career trajectories. Professionals are frequently conscious of the symptoms of this friction—such as missed promotions, operational gridlock, or persistent exhaustion—yet remain unable to isolate the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms responsible.
Structural Friction of Traditional Coaching Engagements
Traditional executive and career coaching paradigms often require significant financial investments, typically spanning several months and costing between $1,595 and upwards of $10,000. While extended engagements provide deep support for structural transformation, they present a barrier for professionals who need rapid diagnostic clarity before an imminent promotion, a board presentation, a lateral career shift, or an urgent performance realignment.
The marketplace has long lacked an intensive, time-compressed offering that delivers enterprise-grade psychometric rigor and seasoned executive interpretation within a rapid operational timeline. Professionals are often forced to choose between superficial online surveys that offer negligible business value and exhaustive coaching programs that demand months of calendar commitment.
College Student Career Launch Sprint
Our collage student career launch sprint package is designed to create clarity for your future success, establish a roadmap for achieving your career goals and execute the job search with confidence.
Who is this for?
Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors looking to fine-tune their career focus, gain greater clarity about career options that tie into your talents and interests, prepare to secure strategic internships or capstone projects, and execute the job search with confidence.
Package Includes
• Talent Analysis - The TriMetrix HD Talent Assessment by TTI Success Insights: This powerful tool maps your natural talents, drivers, behaviors and acumen revealing the exact professional environment where you will thrive.
• Career Coacing with Skill Self-Awareness Deep Dive 1:1 one-hour career coaching sessions with Carl Nielson to unpack the assessment, identify your high-leverage career zones and tackle blind spots.
• High-Potential Career Map
A tangible Talent-to-Career Evaluation with CoreMatch AI and Strategy mindmap that maps your achievements and talents, and defines a short- and long-term acceleration plan based on your goals.
• Personal Branding
Your resume and LinkedIn profile are critical. We'll create a powerful, high-impact resume and LinkedIn profile to significantly increase the potential to land interviews.
• Job Search Coaching
Whether you are looking for an internship or the ideal job upon graduation, we'll provide the coaching to maximize opportunies. Everything from job search strategy, interview coaching, to JIT interview preparation so you are confident and able to perform at your best.
• Exclusive Client Portal Access: Access to an extensive, curated library of job search resources, frameworks and tools.
What You Will Achieve
Clarity: Know definitively how to strategically optimize your current path.
Confidence: Apply a data-driven strategy.
Impact: Position yourself for roles that maximize financial and professional reward.
Schedule a complimentary information session with Carl Nielson today (mouse over for link to Carl's calendar).
What we'll do on the call
• Discuss your specific needs.
• Answer all your questions.
• Review pricing and payment options
Career Alignment Tune-Up
Our career matching tuneup package combines extensive talent assessment, career-talent matching analysis and mapping to guide your career evaluation and exploration.
Who is this for?
• Early-career professionals
• Mid-career professionals
• Seasoned professionals looking to shift gears
Coaching focuses on gaining clarity and answering the cornerstone strategic question: “What career direction has the greatest potential for delivering a feeling of purpose, success and happiness at this stage in my life?”
You'll identify and narrow high-potential career options.
For those with some career direction already established, we’ll hone in on ideal companies and industries, niche types of jobs, soft skill development and identifying and removing barriers.
For those who feel they have “no clear options or career direction”, we replace lack of clarity with high-potential career match direction.
Package Includes
• TriMetrix HD Talent assessment package includes Behavioral Style, Personal Motivators, Acumen, 25 DNA Skill Development
• Career matching analysis and investigation with CoreMatch AI
• Personal one-on-one coaching to support career evaluation, strategy and planning.
• Personal Mission Development
• 8 Virtual coaching sessions - expect at least 8 one-hour sessions to complete all coaching objectives. We also include 30-minute follow-up check-in support sessions at no cost.
Schedule a complimentary information session with Carl Nielson today (mouse over for link to Carl's calendar).
We'll answer all your questions.
What we'll do on the call
• Discuss your specific needs.
• Answer all your questions.
Leader Development Tune-Up™
Our powerful leader development tune-up package mirrors what we provide to our corporate clients via The Nielson Group.
Who is this for?
• Emerging and first-time leaders
• Team leads and people managers
• Executives
Our leadership development coaching spans
• Leading self (self-awareness, emotional intelligence, growth mindset)
• Leading others (psychological safety/building a culture of trust, clear communication, conflict resolution)
• Strategic thinking development (vision alignment, scenario planning, systems thinking)
• Leadership critical success skills development (accountability frameworks, deliberate real world pratice application).
Some of the common areas we focus on:
• Leader Communication
• Team Engagement
• Navigating Politics & Processes
• Leadership Presence
• Conflict Management
• Building Trust
• Hiring Top Performers and High-Potentials
What's included
• TriMetrix HD & EQ assessment suite
• 3-Month or 6-Month Package option
(up to 15 sessions per 3-months)
What's covered
Pre-launch: Establishing client goals and objectives
Phase 1: Assessment administration and awareness building
Phase 2: Personal development and coaching focus planning
Phase 3: 30-Day development execution intensive
Phase 4: 60-90 Day development and application coaching
Other Assessments based on goals
Additional Client Materials
We assemble all assessment results and leadership development materials into an organized binder that you'll value far beyond our time together. You'll also receive reading assignments including targeted books to supplement the coaching.
• You'll learn and apply the Leader-as-Coach method to enhance your leadership mindset, style and communication methods.
Are you looking for a leadership coach but aren't sure how to start the conversation? Want to discuss your particular situation and the "fit" to our approach?
Schedule a complimentary information session with Carl Nielson today (mouse over for link to Carl's calendar).