Diagnostics for Leadership Teams
Map the cognitive topology of your leadership team.
Make the structural causes of friction, slow decisions, and burnout visible — before they become crises. Validated psychometrics, processed through Topological Data Analysis.
The Problem
Complexity Without Clarity
Organizations face interconnected challenges — burnout, decision fatigue, miscommunication, turnover — but treat them as isolated problems. Standard personality tests offer labels without depth. Team surveys measure sentiment without structure.
The result: interventions that miss the mark, because they never mapped the underlying architecture. You can't navigate what you can't see.
A Different Approach
See the Structure. Navigate with Precision.
Resilience isn't a feeling — it's a structural property of how minds and teams are configured. When you understand the topology of personality and cognitive diversity, complexity becomes navigable.
We combine validated psychometric instruments with topological data analysis to make that structure visible — for individuals seeking clarity and organizations building resilient teams.
Engagement tiers
Pulse
Up to 8 assessments, summary report, 30-min readout.
First-time buyers, curious founders.
See details →Diagnostic
Up to 15 assessments, full topology report, coverage / bridge / resilience analysis, 60-min interpretation session.
Most engagements — the default.
See details →Diagnostic + Workshop
Everything in Diagnostic plus a half-day team workshop, tailored intervention design, 30-day follow-up call.
Teams ready to act on findings.
See details →Advisory Retainer
Monthly leadership advisory, quarterly re-diagnostic, on-call interpretation support.
Post-engagement retention.
See details →Methodology
Seven validated instruments. One topology of your team.
Peer-reviewed psychometrics — BFI-2, HEXACO-60, IPIP-NEO-120, ECR-R, PERMA, Ryff PWB, PID-5-BF — feed an 8-layer pipeline that ends in Topological Data Analysis. CDI, coverage maps, bridge connectors, resilience. Validated, defensible, traceable.
Read the methodology →Our Approach
Interdisciplinary by Design
Psychology is one lens. Philosophy, neuroscience, and contemplative traditions are others. The most robust understanding of human minds comes from integrating across these disciplines — what we call psychotechnologies: systematic methods for transforming how people think, perceive, and relate.
We don't simplify complexity. We make it navigable. Every instrument we use is validated. Every metric we compute is grounded in mathematics. And every recommendation is tailored to the person or team in front of us.
The name Academy of Tribes reflects this: an academy for preserving and developing knowledge, connecting different tribes — the communities that share scientific and cultural worldviews — to serve those seeking clarity.
Validated
Instruments grounded in peer-reviewed research and psychometric standards.
Interdisciplinary
Drawing from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and contemplative traditions.
Structural
We measure architecture, not just sentiment. Topology, not just labels.
About
Connecting Tribes of Knowledge
Academy of Tribes is an organizational resilience platform. We apply Topological Data Analysis (TDA) — a mathematical method for finding structure in complex data — to validated psychometric instruments, mapping the cognitive and emotional architecture of teams. Where most personality testing tells you what individuals are like, we show how a team’s patterns combine: where coverage is strong, where it has blind spots, where structural friction lives. Use cases include high-stakes team composition, post-merger integration, leadership succession, and any situation where understanding the actual shape of a team matters more than another competency framework. Built and run from Oslo by Eric Andreas Helsem Schaumburg, drawing on a decade across psychology, sustainability strategy, and organizational systems work.
For Individuals
Also working on yourself?
Take the free BFI-2, see your Big Five profile in minutes. Upgrade to Pro for the full 6-instrument suite at facet level.
For individuals →Get In Touch
Let's Talk About What You're Building
Whether you're exploring the platform for yourself, evaluating it for your team, or looking for advisory support — we'd like to hear from you.