Identify Potential of Your Talent
Accelerate Talent Decisions Smarter, Fairer, and Easier.
Work Styles Profile is a fast, validated assessment for hiring, development, and succession—easy to interpret and packed with actionable resources. Built for speed, backed by science, and proven to predict success.
Quick and Easy
Quick and Easy
0 hours
No time spent on training. The results are easy to interpret and ready to act on.
30 mins
In just minutes, potential is assessed at scale with results available instantly.
4x
High-potential scores predict a fourfold greater chance of top performance.
90%
Going beyond the score, 90% of talent leaders find our resources useful.
Clear People Insights.
No Training Needed.
Work Styles Profile results are built for speed, clarity, and action. No lengthy certification process or technical expertise required. They’re effortless to navigate and easy to interpret—translating talent analytics into clear, intuitive insights that empower smarter talent decisions.
Powerful Assessment with Instant Results at Scale
In just minutes, potential is assessed through a personality and learning aptitude questionnaire—delivering instant results. Work Styles Profile is quick to complete, easy to roll out, and effortlessly scales across teams, regions, and talent initiatives. Accessible anytime, anywhere, and available in multiple languages.
Scientifically Validated to Predict Success and Spot Leaders Early
Backed by over 20 years of research by Dr. Martin Lanik, Work Styles Profile helps you reliably identify individuals who will succeed and grow across all roles and levels. Whether you’re spotting high-potential contributors or emerging leaders, it provides clear, evidence-based insights to fairly guide your data-driven talent decisions.
Actionable Resources Driving Real Results.
Work Styles Profile comes with easy-to-use interview guides, leadership level matching, and personalized development plans with interpretation video—turning insights into action. This powerful toolkit delivers exceptional value, offering a cost-effective solution to support smarter hiring, development, and succession decisions.
Discover What Makes Your Talent Ready to Lead and Grow
Unlock Potential Across All Roles
Growth Potential shapes how individuals approach work and learn, predicting how quickly they can develop and advance in their careers. It is based on combinations of learning style and personality traits: Curious, Organized, Ambitious, Outgoing, Resilient, Caring, and Avid Learner.
Spot Leaders Early and Match Their Level
Uncover hidden leadership potential to strategically plan talent needs. By spotting high-potentials early, you can proactively develop and prepare them for critical roles. Our level matching resource ensures you know who’s right for frontline, mid-level, and senior leadership positions.
Align Work Style with Culture Fit
Work Style shapes how people naturally think, behave, and collaborate. Understanding these styles helps you align individuals with team cultures and work environments where they’ll engage and perform at their best—leading to stronger teamwork, higher retention, and boosted productivity.
What Drives Leaders to the Top? Find Out the Key Traits.
Explore our research on 13,000 leaders, explaining how success at each leadership level is driven by seven distinct traits we assess to determine leadership potential.
Authors
Authors
A Single Assessment. Multiple Talent Analytics.
Hiring for All Roles
Use case: Screening tool for all roles to predict performance and culture fit.
Application: Use Work Styles Profile early in the hiring process to identify candidates who match both leadership needs and organizational culture. Easy to complete and interpret, with built-in interview guides and seamless ATS integration.
Identifying Hidden Potential
Use case: Spotting high-potentials and successors earlier in their careers.
Application: Support talent reviews with predictive data and group analytics. Identify readiness by leadership level, using clear insights and a validated model. Includes Level Match and development resources to build your future pipeline faster.
Developing Leadership skills
Use case: Building self-awareness and creating personalized growth plans.
Application: Use as a unified baseline tool to spark development across your talent strategy. Each participant receives a personalized plan tied to work style insights—easy to interpret and supported by group analytics for L&D leaders.
Make the Right Talent Decision with Pinsight
Our selection reports are easy-to-interpret, empowering you to expedite your talent processes by identifying growth potential of your workforce. They are narrative and include an executive summary and potential personality derailers.
Selection Report
Selection Report
Selection Report
Develop Leadership Skills for All Roles
Each personalized development report helps individuals understand how their personality shapes their work style, offers guided interpretation of their results, and provides action-oriented plans, grounded in Dr. Martin Lanik’s evidence-based Leader Habit formula
Development Report
Development Report
Development Report
Success Stories
Success Stories
6x
More likely to be seen as a top performer for those who received high Potential score on the Pinsight assessment.
Fortune 500 Financial company
$7B in revenue
20k employees
7x
More likely to retain their direct reports for those who received high Potential score on the Pinsight assessment.
Fortune 500 Financial company
$7B in revenue
20k employees
3x
More likely to advance their careers faster for those who received high Potential score on the Pinsight assessment.
Fortune 500 Financial company
$7B in revenue
20k employees
For the Past 16 Years,
We Have Assessed Potential at More than 100 Companies
Pinsight’s assessments have driven successful talent decisions in hiring, development and succession across organizations of all sizes and industries enhancing organizational effectiveness and scaling with their needs and growth.
Pinsight’s Award Winning Solutions are Trusted by Talent Leaders and Industry Experts
BRANDON HALL GROUPTM
Technology Excellence Award
HR TECH AWARDS
Learning and Talent Development
I’ve been through countless leadership assessments—but this was different. It was immersive, live, and powered by real people. Fast-paced, high-stakes, and full of real-time decisions, it felt less like a test and more like leading from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. Challenging, energizing, and even fun.
Roberta Gogos
Vice President,
Principal Analyst
“Partnering with Pinsight has been one of the most strategic talent planning decisions I have made. Not only do the tools and resources help elevate our leaders’ skills and abilities the support from the Pinsight team is clearly industry leading. CEO said ‘Pinsight is not a typical vendor relationship or presentation. They exceed expectations.’ Anyone who is looking for assessment support, selection guidance and criteria, or leadership development should absolutely invest with Pinsight.”
Sarah Jackson
Chief People Officer
“Pinsight provides an excellent process from start to finish, where feedback is crucial for successful development. It offers a unique perspective on development needs and competencies, serving as a clear, practical guide to focus time, energy, and resources.”
Marta Amaya López
Development and Training Consultant
“By leveraging data-driven insights and scientifically validated assessments to support leadership development and succession planning. Their commitment to promoting fair and objective evaluations ensures that organizations can confidently identify and nurture top talent, ultimately fostering a culture of growth and excellence.”
Ben Eubanks
Chief Research Officer
“Pinsight has been amazing in the pivoting to meet our needs during a fast ramp up. The team is really great, driving the process with excellence.”
Michelle Taylor
Senior Sales Training Manager
“Pinsight has become essential to our talent management strategy at Middle Ground Capital. The tailored assessments offer deep insights that help us support employee growth and retention, fostering a culture of self-awareness and continuous improvement. By aligning each team member’s development with our values and goals, Pinsight empowers our people and has helped us maintain retention rates far above industry norms. It’s a critical part of our approach to nurturing top talent.”
Kristen Baily
Director of Human Capital
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