Team structure, made visible
Map the cognitive topology of your leadership team.
See the structure your leadership team actually has — where coverage is strong, where it runs thin, and which connections carry the load. Validated psychometrics, one transparent topological lens.
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.
A team is a configuration, not an average. Who covers what, where the gaps sit, which connections carry load under pressure — that structure exists whether or not anyone has mapped it.
We combine validated psychometric instruments with topological data analysis to put that structure on the table: a map your leadership team can argue with, not another survey to file.
Methodology
Six validated instruments. One topology of your team.
Peer-reviewed psychometrics — BFI-2, HEXACO-60, IPIP-NEO-120, ECR-R, PERMA, and Ryff PWB — feed a pipeline that ends in Topological Data Analysis: a coverage map of the team's personality space, the bridges that hold its clusters together, and a resilience read on what a single departure would change. Deterministic, reproducible, benchmarked — the sample team report is real engine output, and we say plainly what the method can't see.
Read the methodology →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 →Every engagement includes Team-tier platform access for all participants for the duration — see software pricing.
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 — measurement from the science, meaning from traditions that have studied attention and character for far longer.
We don't simplify complexity. We make it navigable. The instruments we use are validated; the topology we compute is transparent and reproducible; the recommendations are 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 maps the hidden structure of leadership teams. Where most personality testing tells you what individuals are like, we show how a team’s minds actually combine — where coverage is strong, where the blind spots are, who holds the team together, and where the configuration itself — not the people — concentrates the risk worth examining.
That structural view matters most when the stakes are high: team composition, post-merger integration, leadership succession — any moment where 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.
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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.