Case Studies and Past Programming

Communication Science for Seniors (2025) This four-part workshop series was developed in collaboration with Trent University as a more meaningful way of engaging older adults in lab-based research. If seniors were being asked to complete assessments as part of a study, the experience needed to feel like more than extraction. I supported that effort by…

The MIPI Competency Development Framework (2023) By 2023, the work around the MIPI had moved well beyond assessment design and score interpretation alone. The MIPI Competency Development Framework (CDF) was one of the first large-scale attempts to organize soft-skills development around the model with a much higher degree of structure, calibration, and practical specificity. At 412 pages,…

Public Explainers (2021) As the MIPI began moving into coach-facing use, it became clear that coaches needed more than a report. They needed a way into the logic of the model itself. These early video explainers were created as prework for certification training, offering a structured introduction to the ideas behind the assessment before coaches…

Coaching with the MIPI (2021) In 2021, I produced one of the earliest substantial attempts to turn the MIPI into a coach-facing methodology. Coaching with the MIPI was not a short guide or a light interpretive companion. It was a 386-page working manual built to help coaches move from raw scores to actual conversations, debriefs, and development…

Psychology of Project Leadership (2019) Psychology of Project Leadership was an early professional education project designed to translate psychology research into the lived realities of project work. Built for project, program, and portfolio professionals, it explored how emotional understanding, stress, cognition, creativity, respect, and risk communication shape leadership under pressure. The larger curriculum was ambitious…

Meaningful Connections Case Study (2018) In 2018, Adaptimist Insights partnered with The Mane Intent to design and deliver a two-day leadership retreat in Indian River, Ontario. The setting was unusual, but the objective was not: help leaders see, in real time, how their internal state affects the people around them. Working on the ground with…

“When I first started Adaptimist, I was told I needed a ‘lead magnet’. I had no idea what that was, exactly, but I understood that we’d need to give a bunch of stuff away. That seemed like a good idea to me, so I sat down to create this.” –Geoff.

Between 2016 and 2020, I delivered a number of public workshops and presentations. This two-day workshop was one of the broader curriculum offerings from that period. There is still a lot of substance in it, even though our thinking and materials have evolved considerably since then.” –Geoff.

“One of my first assignments during my undergraduate was to develop a short manual for teaching Emotional Intelligence skills to children. I was asked to create both a version of the booklet for parents and one for children. I worked with several other undergrads in the lab at the time and this was one of…

“One of my first assignments during my undergraduate was to develop a short manual for teaching Emotional Intelligence skills to children. I was asked to create both a version of the booklet for parents and one for children. I worked with several other undergrads in the lab at the time and this was one of…