The Experience
In today’s rapidly evolving work environment, coaches are an invaluable support to teams overcoming challenges.
Here, we share their experience of bringing PROPHET into that work, and what it made possible for their clients.
The Initiative
Coaches are often brought in to support the teams. And, when coaches are certified in PROPHET, they are able to introduce the tool alongside their own support to give data-led, actionable insight and guidance.
Unlike traditional personality tools, PROPHET maps how people prefer to work across a business cycle - creating, designing, operating and improving - and translates that into practical insight for strategy, team dynamics and leadership effectiveness.
The Process
Typically coaches will use PROPHET as an enabling framework:
- Debriefing leaders individually on their personal profiles
- Bringing the team together for a structured team day.
- Facilitating dialogues to connect their strategic objectives with a blame-free exploration of how individual and collective strengths were - and weren't - being deployed in service of those objectives.
“PROPHET's business focus helped them decide who would best formulate, lead and drive strategy implementation. The pivotal relationship analysis was particularly valuable for planning cross-functional communication.”
The Insight
The key for coaches is leveraging PROPHET reports to provide the foundation for conversations that genuinely shift dynamics.
Feedback from Katherine Tulpa, the Founder of International C-Level Coaching Firm, Wisdom8, is consistent. Katherine had spent years searching for a team psychometric that combined rigour with genuine practical relevance for senior executive teams. She found it in PROPHET. Since then, Wisdom8 has certified hundreds of coaches internationally through its partnership with the Association for Coaching.
Taking Action
Armed with our data-led insight, certified coaches quickly enhance team coaching sessions to:
- Align around new visions
- Execute more effectively against business strategy
- Explore individual and collective strengths - as well as gaps and areas of conflict
- Build understanding and collaboration across business functions and international borders
The Transformation
The verdict from coaches and teams is clear. They value PROPHET because it speaks in inclusive business language. It helps them identify genuine strengths and capability gaps, value all team members, build mutual understanding and plan how to execute real change.
“I could see where the client needed to fill gaps in their current capability - and they were keen to take that insight further into the organisation.”
The Impact
In addition to team sessions, coaches are using PROPHET across their practice to:
- Fast-track client relationships - Using PROPHET at the start of an engagement to quickly build rapport and psychological safety, giving coaches a richer, evidence-based picture of the client from session one rather than spending weeks in discovery
- Inform development plans - Using PROPHET data to co-create meaningful, personalised development plans grounded in the client's own profile, rather than relying on generic frameworks or coach intuition alone
- Identify coaching priorities - Using the psychometric output to surface what to focus on first, cutting through noise and helping coaches and clients agree on the most impactful areas to work on
- Tailor their coaching approach - Adapting communication style, challenge level, and interventions in real time based on PROPHET insights, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method
- Structure coaching programmes - Using PROPHET at the outset to shape the arc of a whole programme - what to explore early, mid-journey check-ins and what to revisit as the client develops
- Prepare for stakeholder conversations - Drawing on PROPHET insights to help coaches (and clients) prepare for 360 feedback conversations, line manager discussions or sponsoring stakeholder meetings
- Design effective programmes - Using PROPHET ahead of a group programme to understand the range of profiles coming in and design sessions that work across different preferences and needs
- Support career conversations - Using the psychometric to help clients explore identity, strengths, and values in the context of career transitions, promotions, or role changes
- Differentiate their offer - Positioning PROPHET as a distinct and credible tool that elevates their coaching practice, helping them stand out when pitching to new clients or organisations
“Psychometric profiling of executives and teams accelerates relationships and performance. PROPHET offers an ethical, objective insight tool that fosters a common framework for understanding - and it does so in language that resonates at the most senior levels.”
The Feedback
Across coaches and HR professionals, the feedback on PROPHET is consistently positive - and consistently specific.
- The quality of conversation it generates is the most frequently cited strength. PROPHET doesn't just describe people, it provokes constructive challenge, surfaces blind spots and offers concrete recommendations. One practitioner described it as immediately applicable; another called the report "intuitive."
- Its business relevance sets it apart. Unlike tools that require translation from psychological language into commercial context, PROPHET speaks directly to strategy, execution, roles and business outcomes. One practitioner described it simply as a tool "for grown-ups." Another highlighted how, despite being grounded in rigorous science and psychology, the language and application feel immediately practical for business audiences.
- Accuracy builds trust quickly. Multiple practitioners noted that people recognise themselves in their profiles - which creates the psychological safety needed for honest, productive team conversations. That recognition is often where the most valuable dialogue begins.
- Visuals and structure support facilitation. Practitioners with limited preparation time found the report's applied format - combining insight with ready-made discussion questions - particularly valuable. The visual presentation of team profiles makes collective strengths and gaps immediately legible, even to those encountering the tool for the first time.
