When attempting to understand the relationship between success and important life outcomes, emotional intelligence (EI) can only take us so far. The competencies that EI measures are useful in helping us react better in situations we find stressful, but they don’t help us to actively create change. This requires a completely different set of competencies that pertain to motivation. Similarly, EI fails us when trying to answer important questions about interpersonal interactions.

If you are a coach offering transformational services, you need to have a complete picture of your client’s non-cognitive competencies if you want to stimulate lasting change. The Multidimensional Inventory for Personal Intelligence (MIPI) was designed in order to provide you with much broader insights into your client than EI alone can provide. This book was created as a valuable adjunct to the MIPI that can help you more effectively debrief and develop your clients.