A modern way to understand emotion, connection, and motivation.
A research-backed approach to studying, coaching, training and playing with the science of human behaviour.
Adaptimist uses its flagship model, the Multidimensional Inventory for Personal Intelligence, to power an entire ecosystem of products that help people understand themselves, build better relationships, and stay motivated in the moments that matter.
Explore with us and discover a place where the science of the inner world becomes easy to understand.
Find the doorway that fits you best.
Adaptimist has different entry points depending on how you want to use it. Hover over a card to see what you can do here, then click to explore.
I’m here for my own growth
Start with the free MIPI Short and see your how your emotional, social, and motivational competencies work together.
You’ll leave with a simple, science-backed snapshot of how they work for you now.
Explore the MIPI →I work with clients
Use the MIPI Coaching App to order assessments and get structured reports filled with razor sharp insights about your clients.
Use AI to explore the implications of your client’s scores for dazzing results.
See the coaching app →I run programmes or teams
Build soft skills curricula exquisitely tailored to your organizational objectives and the PI makeup of your staff.
You’ll discover how MIPI group reports translate into modules, activities, and train-the-trainer support.
Explore training options →I’m running a study
Explore the implications of Personal Intelligence with a low-friction research licence and a technical manual.
You’ll see how Personal Intelligence sits alongside alexithymia, Big Five traits, and related constructs.
View research package →Personal Intelligence: emotion, connection, and motivation working together.
The MIPI doesn’t just measure “emotional intelligence.” It looks at how you understand your feelings, connect with others, and stay motivated over time. Use the slider below to explore each part.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
Emotional competencies are about how you notice, name, and make sense of your feelings. The MIPI considers a variety of emotion-based competencies that help you reflect on and communicate what’s going on inside.
In the MIPI Long…
- Emotional Understanding (EU)
- Introspectiveness (IN)
- Attentiveness (AT)
- Emotional Communication (EC)
Everyday signals
- You can usually tell what you’re feeling and why.
- You notice shifts in your mood before they spill over.
- It feels easier to put inner experience into words.
Start with the MIPI Short.
The MIPI Short is a free, research-based snapshot of your Personal Intelligence — how emotion, connection, and motivation work together in your life. Use the tabs below to see what the feedback looks like.
A clear, 3-page snapshot.
The MIPI Short report gives you a high-level overview of your Personal Intelligence, followed by simple explanations of what your scores mean and where you might want to focus next.
It’s designed to move you quickly from “numbers on a page” to concrete language you can use to think about how you show up with other people and in your work.
See how your scores combine.
One of the core views shows your Emotion (E), Connection (S), Motivation (M), and overall Personal Intelligence (P) together on a single chart. This lets you see balance and tension at a glance.
This is where you start to notice patterns — for example, feeling strong in motivation but stretched thin socially — and where meaningful coaching conversations often begin.
Understand how your scores show up in real life.
The quadrant view combines your scores to describe themes like responsibility, collaboration, and leadership. It shows how your sensitivity, sociability, and sense of purpose interact in real situations.
This is where the report becomes language you can actually use to think about specific conversations, decisions, and relationships.
No account needed. You’ll get your feedback report right away.
Turn personal intelligence data into a coaching superpower.
The MIPI Coaching App helps you send assessments, see rich client reports, and turn scores into practical next steps. Use the views below to see how it fits into your practice.
Send assessments in a few clicks.
Choose a client, select which version of the MIPI to send, and the app handles invites and reminders. No PDFs, no spreadsheets, no manual tracking.
Train your people with group data, not guesswork.
Adaptimist uses group MIPI scores to design soft skills programmes that actually match your people. Instead of generic workshops, you get a curriculum built around your organization’s real emotional, social, and motivational patterns.
Whether you’re running workforce development, leadership cohorts, or community programmes, we start by understanding how your participants show up — then build a sequence of modules, activities, and facilitator supports to fit.
Assess your group
Everyone completes the MIPI Short so we can see how emotion, connection, and motivation show up across your group. You get a clear profile of strengths, pressure points, and hidden opportunities.
- Simple online link or QR code for participants.
- Group report summarising emotional, social, and motivational patterns.
- Ready to plug into your existing programmes or new initiatives.
Validated. Reliable. Grounded in real data.
The MIPI Short is a modern measure of Personal Intelligence with strong reliability, clear structure, measurement invariance, and incremental validity beyond personality traits.
Click a hextile on the right to see how each piece of the evidence base fits together.
Measurement invariance
Multi-group confirmatory factor analyses show that the MIPI Short holds the same three-factor E–S–M structure and item functioning across gender groups, supporting fair comparisons and interpretation of group differences in Personal Intelligence (Van Rens et al., 2024).
A. Geoffrey Crane, and a decade of stubborn curiosity.
Adaptimist is led by A. Geoffrey Crane, a researcher and educator at Trent University whose work sits at the intersection of emotion, behaviour, and what he calls personal intelligence. For the past decade, he’s been building tools that help people understand how their feelings, relationships, and motivations fit together.
By day, Geoff works alongside colleagues and students, publishing research and refining the models behind the MIPI. By night (and many weekends), he turns those models into practical things people can actually use: assessments, reports, curricula, and strange little apps that invite you to play with your inner world.
Work with Adaptimist.
Adaptimist grows best through partnerships. Whether you’re a coach, a researcher, or an organization building emotional, social, and motivational intelligence, you can help shape what comes next.
We’re especially interested in lighthouse partners, training organizations, and research teams who want to work with personal intelligence in a way that’s careful, evidence-based, and genuinely useful for real people.
