"Kathy Kolbe has written an exemplary guide to finding your career DNA."

"Kathy Kolbe's instincts, insights and intuition helped the Phoenix Suns spot the potential of a little known person named Dan Majerle, who became an All-Star. Now she sets out to do the same for less physical businesses."

"Once again Kathy Kolbe has written a powerful piece of work based on solid research that teaches each of us how to liberate our minds, free our souls and soar to limitless heights by trusting that which we have been endowed with from the time we take our first breath...instinct!"

"This work is a landmark on the road to understanding what conditions are necessary for people to do their best."

"Psychologists say the Kolbe Index is an effective new tool. People who have taken it say it has an uncanny knack for describing how they operate."

"Different from IQ or personality, the Kolbe Index provides clues to a person's natural advantages."

"Kolbe provides a catalyst that can help you evaluate what you are doing, how you are doing it and whether you should be doing it at all."

"Different from IQ or personality measures, the [Kolbe A™ Index] provides clues to a person's natural advantages in undertaking particular tasks."

"Kathy Kolbe has developed a unique method of evaluating her fellow human beings and predicting how they will act."

"After using the Kolbe Conative Index™ with every member of our company, not only did productivity and efficiency increase dramatically, harmony has replaced discord. We don't hire ANYONE without using the Index."

"Kolbe is so critical to our success we can't even put a value on it."

"The Kolbe Wisdom™ is remarkable! By avoiding the consequences of bad hires and the hassles of employee politics, Kolbe helps small business owners focus on the things that got them excited about having a business in the first place."

"I now have a completely different perspective of the way people perform. It forces you to hire and staff in a manner that goes beyond what you've done traditionally. You look at the combinations of instinctive talents that best fit your changing needs."

"The Kolbe Concept® is an essential part of the company's plan to target future markets and streamline product development. Through the Kolbe management reports we got results that were much more reliable than what we had with other tests."

"Kolbe can give you a sense of what the development and coaching challenges are going to be for leaders in organizations."

"Kathy Kolbe has created a system that is a god-send to managers trying to pull together the human resources needed to get their jobs done."

"My team increased its productivity. We were able to use the Kolbe process to design and develop a training program in 50 days, whereas it used to take 100 days."

"The Kolbe Training was perhaps the single most beneficial human resources training I have received in 30 years of business life."

"The Kolbe Index has turned the old adage, trust your instincts, into cutting edge workplace strategy."

"Kolbe has perfected a tool that could revolutionize organizational design and staffing decisions."

"[Kolbe] helped us set national sales records for the third year in a row. No other method predicts how people will actually perform. I credit it with a personal productivity increase of over 200%."

"The Kolbe Wisdom™ has made the difference between a mediocre management team - and one that works together and wins all the time."

"The Kolbe Indexes have played a critical role in verifying the 'right fit' of an individual into the 'right position'. That's a critical challenge in today's business world."

"Any organization that depends on teams to achieve their business objectives should take full advantage of the capability of Kolbe to predict success on the front end."

"Kathy Kolbe is brilliant. Her new technology is essential for anyone in business today. Our company has grown exponentially because of Kathy's information. Our profits are up, our staff is happy and stress is down."

"Kolbe's work is a manager's dream: a revolutionary method of quantifying and utilizing the innate instincts of every other member of the team."

"Kathy Kolbe has produced a fascinating and insightful work that adds a rich dimension of understanding to the critical task of job performance and individual success. It should be invaluable in helping to direct one's own efforts as well as directing the efforts of others."

"An increasing number of Fortune 500 firms are using (Kolbe) to bring enterprise software projects in on time and on budget."

"It's helped us tremendously in guiding our children in trying to help them select professions for their talent."

"If you want to discover your strengths and what gives you energy, take the Kolbe."

"Last year my son Chris was failing his courses for the millionth year in a row. Private testing revealed he was brilliant, scoring at several grade levels higher than the one he was in. We couldn't figure out what was wrong. He tried your internet analysis and I remember e-mailing you asking for more specific information about the results. Your reply changed my son's life. And I wanted to thank you for taking the time. Today I got a letter from the school. My son was on the Headmaster's Honor Roll -- for the first time in his life. So much has changed for him and I can't thank you enough. And all because we now understand how he learns best. I sincerely wish your survey was part of EVERY school program so that more kids could be spared the pain my son went through."

"I want to thank you for the BEST training I have ever received. As a person who has been in education for my entire life and someone who has attended literally hundreds of training sessions, I believe my above comment should carry some credibility."

"I'm much more tolerant now. I understand. I try to diversify assignments for all the different kinds of people."

"When my Kolbe A™ Index were interpreted, I realized I'd been given a profound gift: an opportunity to identify and celebrate my natural, instinctive talents. How validating! How useful! The concept of conation as Kathy Kolbe understands it, and her Index for measuring it, are knock-outs. I predict, for starters, they will revolutionize vocational, educational and personal counseling."

"Now I better understand how to use my natural inclinations in my career and which careers would benefit most from my strengths. While some might find structure boring I enjoy it. Through understanding why I do things the way I do, it is much easier to choose a career path that my inclinations naturally mesh with. Thank you so much for creating something that is so incredibly useful in so many ways."

"Kathy Kolbe's detailed examples, so rich, so vivid, so meaningful, so illustrative. The possibilities are endless."

"By focusing on the way people behave, rather than how they think or feel, Kathy Kolbe offers a simple yet powerful tool for self-exploration. Our students have learned more about themselves and about teamwork using the Kolbe Index."

"The most important to me is the fact that the Kolbe A™ Index results helped me with feeling good and satisfied about the way I learn and the way I approach problems or any kind of situation. I used to underestimate my 'mode of operation' because I am not an insistent fact finder, which I thought was a big problem. Now, I feel comfortable with every aspect of my life knowing that the way I react or deal with situations is just right because it works for ME."

"Kolbe Wisdom™ has the power to transform education and to transform lives forever."

"I think that the way society and schools are constructed causes an inordinate amount of labeling of kids, and increasing insistence that they be medicated in their formative years just because they respond to a different learning atmosphere and approach. 'We have only the hammer here, so you HAVE TO BE A NAIL!' So I am now living proof that they cannot really change a person's MO with stimulant medication. I hope that Kathy's vision becomes reality, and that schools and workplaces can be reshaped to fully accommodate and appreciate us 'troublemakers'."

"School and university CEOs are expected to be constructive, effective managers, often with limited financial means. It is the human resource and resourcefulness which they must release within inventive and humane educational settings. What I have gained through learning about conation is an application of divergent as well as convergent creativity and how to help people of varying backgrounds and motivations work together toward productive and personally satisfying goals."

"If I had known sooner about Kathy Kolbe's work, it would have saved me a lot of worry. It wasn't until after my teenage son was in the midst of angst that we used the KCI to see his conative crises. Had we known his natural M.O., I would have nurtured his strengths and perhaps helped him through the trauma. Now that he is back to being himself, the Kolbe A™ Index, true to Kathy's prediction, has confirmed his special talents. I am recommending it to everyone I know as the best possible parenting tool."

"Instinct is an important part of why we do what we do. This has added to other ways of exploring behavior."

"The knowledge to empower people to perform to their peak creative abilities - what a wonderful gift to have been given."

"Your book is one of those priceless gems that come along every few years that offers breakthrough thinking on impacting personal productivity."

"Anyone involved in helping people to become better owes it to themselves to look at this very closely."

"I see us using it when we're putting together new teams - new product introduction teams, where we're pulling people together from marketing, engineering, from manufacturing - it's a great place to use it."

"Most companies I talk to say communications is their main problem. One of the things they're always looking to do is improve communications and Kolbe is very strong there. What they're looking to do is just get people working more closely together and understand each other better."

"The Kolbe A™ Index has had a huge impact on the overall energy within our organization. It has allowed us, from a management perspective, to utilize our talents within our organization and position people to the best of their abilities."

"The hardest part of business for me has always been people/employees. I now see not only how people in our business can be more productive and effective but, more importantly, how their lives will be better overall through knowing this information. That's exciting!"

"Kolbe is truly 'the missing link' that the cognitive and affective tools cannot address. It is the 'a-ha' in understanding the parts of the human psyche."

"As far as training goes, this provided me with the single greatest impact I have experienced in my career."

"Excellent leaders create an environment within which people can succeed. The catalyst for becoming an excellent leader is Kolbe Wisdom™."

"Kathy Kolbe's A™ Index is a powerful tool to aid us in understanding and overcoming the struggles that emerge when we cannot achieve unity between what we do and who we are. The implications for its use in researching the psychology of meaning and character formation are vast."

"Kolbe Wisdom™ is for all ages! Just this week a young person described it as 'really cool' while a senior affirmed his decision regarding a volunteer task as a result of knowing his MO. The potential for Kolbe Wisdom™ to impact life dimensions continues to grow. I am convinced that Kolbe Wisdom has much to contribute to greater life satisfaction in the senior years. I am forever grateful for the insight of better understanding myself and others."

"The whole idea of conation and the Kolbe Concept® is clearly more than just an exercise. Our management group has experienced a higher level of productivity as a direct result of understanding the concept of conation."

"I believe that what makes the world's greatest managers is: Managers who select people first on their natural talent; second, on their experience; and third, on their academic qualification."

"Kolbe has written a study that enriches and enhances our knowledge of a little understood but important managerial tool: instinct."

"Helps people 'searching to produce the perfect work place'."

"This course isn't just about presenting the material, it is about giving us tools and a concept to help us become better people, to help make a better world. This course is a gift. So in our own unique ways we can make a contribution to our families, our communities, our careers. You touch lives and help make a difference."

"The index also mentions that I work well against deadlines. No one can ever criticize me for procrastinating, because that is the way that I work best!"

"I was close to being fired, but made a 180 degree turn after seeing my Kolbe results, because I started acting on my instincts and management encouraged it."

"I have read my FMO+™ results and I am just blown away ... it is the best thing I have read for my entire life. It has validated my past gut feelings [about what] I have done in financial dealings."

"The day I got my Kolbe results was one of the most liberating days of my life. My productivity shot through the roof."

"For me to find out there is something about me that was designed in, that would not change, that I could start counting on and using was probably the most powerful thing that happened to me."

"Kathy Kolbe understands that the greatest disability is in not having the freedom to be yourself."

"I never felt that my personal gifts were validated until this CEO appointment. But if someone had told me four years ago I'd be here now, I would have laughed. It wasn't a career track I was on."

"Being 'different' in my organization, this information has enabled me to validate the strengths I have, ignite ideas about ways I can add value (or already do) and then help to enable others to value and celebrate who they are and their unique contributions."

"Kathy Kolbe's work has alerted me to the tell-tale signs of burnout and helped me target the needs of my clients. She has given me the confidence to invest more in myself."

"The power for your life's choices comes when you know and understand your instincts, and then put this knowledge into practice. The power is in the 'knowing'."

"I more clearly understand how I can use my natural abilities the best without feeling guilty for it."

"I know now why I get so bored within a job. From now on I will take and look out for more opportunities to give or live out of my talents to my fullest potential."

"It has put me back into an environment where I'm Michael Jordan playing basketball instead of Michael Jordan playing baseball."

"I found great validation in who I am instinctively when I reviewed my Kolbe results. It immediately showed me why I was labeled a misfit...in school. If I had taken the Kolbe Index at a young age, I might have been able to avoid, or at least better understand, many of the problems I encountered in school."

"I have taken a lot of self-discovery types of tests before, [and] yours is the first one that gives me a sense of usefulness beyond satisfying curiosity."