Resilience - Only PREP Can Deliver

Personality Is the Map. PREP Shows You the Weather.

The route matters. So do the conditions — energy reserves, stress, resilience, and change readiness. PREP measures what no other assessment can: whether someone is ready for the journey ahead or needs to recharge, and how to navigate their path with the people around them.

40+

Years of research

.91+

Test-retest Reliability

✓

Cross Culturally Validated

410,000+

People Assessed

THE GAP Not Another Personality Assessment. The Only Complete One.

Traditional tools tell you someone is a “Driver” or an “ENFJ.” That’s useful — until the Driver burns out, or the ENFJ can’t handle one more change. CORE Personality doesn’t fluctuate much. Capacity does. Capacity is often what determines performance right now and in the next 6 months.

PREP vs. Other Assessments

Capability	PREP	MBTI	DiSC	Big Five
Behavioral Tendencies	✓	✓	✓	✓
Communication Preferences	✓	✓	✓	✓
Personality Type	✓	✓	✓	✓
How Someone Typically Shows Up	✓	✓	✓	✓
What Only PREP Measures
Energy Reserve	✓	✕	✕	✕
Cumulative Stress — load over 6–12 months	✓	✕	✕	✕
Personal Resilience — energy-to-stress ratio	✓	✕	✕	✕
Change Readiness — what can they handle what’s next?	✓	✕	✕	✕
Current Motivation — which behaviors are shifting	✓	✕	✕	✕

Why This Matters

A team hitting every deadline might still be six months from a mass resignation if everyones energy reserves are depleted. A manager getting 360 feedback about being “too aggressive” might not need coaching on communication — they might be running on fumes and losing their filter. The personality is the same. The capacity to perform or change is not. PREP shows you both.

Eight Dimensions of Personal Resilience —

From One 5-Minute Assessment

PREP’s resilience metrics aren’t self-reported feelings. They’re algorithmically derived from the same survey that produces your personality profile — cross-validated against the Holmes-Rahe stress scale and Beck Depression Inventory over 40 years of research.

Natural Openness to Change

How your CORE personality handles novelty and disruption

First Impression Alignment

How you present vs. who you naturally are

Current Behavioral Motivation

Which behaviors are shifting to match your environment

Personal Focus

Internal vs. external locus of attention

Energy Reserve

Current capacity — your battery's charge level

Cumulative Stress

Stress load accumulated over 6-12 months

Personal Resilience

Energy-to-stress ratio — your staying power

Overall Change Readiness

Algorithmic synthesis — What are you ready for?

How Resilience Data Can Change Real Conversations

Resilience data doesn’t replace what you know about someone — it changes how you approach whats next. Every coach has had the session where the playbook doesn’t work. These are those moments.

Leadership Coaching

An executive’s personality indicates they are a strong leader. Their energy reserve says “running on empty.” Without resilience data, you would coach to strengths. With it, you can prevent a derailment.

Hiring & Onboarding

A great hire can still fail in the first year — not because they were wrong for the role, but because no one understood what they needed to succeed in it. PREP shortens the learning curve by showing managers how to coach each new hire based on their actual style, energy, and stress capacity — not just their resume.

Sales Performance

A top rep’s numbers suddenly drop. Their personality hasn’t changed. Their cumulative stress has. Catch it before it becomes a resignation letter.

Life & Wellbeing

A coaching client knows what they should do — exercise, set boundaries, pursue the promotion. They’re not doing it. Maybe the problem isn’t motivation. Maybe they need to do things to recharge first.

The Research

Created to Navigate Instability

PREP’s resilience algorithm was born from a real-world crisis. In the 1980s, during AT&T’s historic divestiture, JoAn Mann was brought in to solve a problem: why were qualified employees failing to onboard through massive organizational change? The answer wasn’t personality — it was capacity. Some people simply didn’t have the energy reserves to adapt to a new environment that was a bad fit, regardless of how well their traits matched the job.

That discovery led to a unique algorithm that measures resilience factors alongside personality traits — from the same assessment. Four decades of outcomes-based research across medical applications, worker’s compensation rehabilitation, HR recruitment, leadership coaching, and intercultural studies have validated this approach.

Validated Across Industries, Crises, and Decades

Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale

PREP’s stress metrics cross-validated against the clinical standard for life-event stress measurement

Beck Depression Inventory

Energy reserve and stress correlations validated against the most widely used clinical depression screening tool

.91 Test-Retest Reliability

Consistent results across administrations — compared to ~50% retest variation reported for MBTI

"Between the stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies your power and freedom."

— Viktor Frankl

PREP was designed from the start for cross-cultural, intergenerational use — 8th-grade reading level, single-word response format to reduce language bias, and norming studies spanning diverse populations since 1984. It’s accurate to a medical research level, bias-free for full organizational deployment, and built to open communications rather than put people in boxes.

Applications

Resilience Data Changes Everything You Do

Life & Wellbeing Coaching
Sales Performance
Merger & Acquisition Integration
Workforce Transition Programs
Student Development
Succession Planning

Whether you’re coaching one person or assessing an entire organization, resilience data turns guesswork into planning and productive coaching and interventions. Capacity for change and work changes everything.