Founder
“I plant seeds that will outlive empires.”
Understanding the Founder
You want to achieve meaningful things, but you believe that real success comes from investing in people. You think about growth in long time scales and you notice potential where others see limitations. You lead through support and strategy at the same time. You feel most fulfilled when you help others reach a level of strength or stability they did not know they were capable of.
Dominant Driver
Black is the drive toward agency and effective achievement. It shows up in people who notice power dynamics, think in terms of trade-offs, and are willing to do what it takes to move from wishing to actually getting results. This might be the person who negotiates, sets clear personal goals, or quietly builds leverage instead of waiting for permission. At its hardest moments, Black can become suspicious, guarded, or calculating, afraid of being weak or dependent and struggling to fully trust that others will have their back.
Auxiliary Driver
Green is the drive toward connection and organic growth. It shows up in people who think about how things and people fit together over time, who notice the emotional atmosphere in a room, and who care about whether a path feels alive rather than just impressive. This might be the person who tends to friendships like a garden, who values slow, steady progress, or who keeps an eye on whether everyone is actually okay beneath the surface. At its hardest moments, Green can avoid necessary conflict, stay too long in familiar situations, or bend itself around others until it’s not sure what it really wants anymore.
Auxiliary Driver
Blue is the drive toward understanding and mastery. It shows up in people who naturally ask questions, compare options, and try to improve the systems around them. This is the friend with too many tabs open, the person who reads the manual, or the one who quietly optimizes a process after everyone else has stopped thinking about it. At its hardest moments, Blue can get stuck in analysis, delay decisions until they feel ‘perfect’, or retreat into the safety of ideas when emotions or chaos feel overwhelming.
Strengths & Weaknesses
✓Strengths
- •Builds systems that last because they're designed around people, not against them
- •Invests in others strategically—you develop talent instead of just hiring it
- •Creates cultures of trust where high performance feels sustainable, not extractive
- •Achieves through empowerment; people want to succeed because you helped them believe they could
⚠Weaknesses
- •Hesitates to make painful decisions, letting problems grow while you search for a kinder solution
- •Struggles to prioritize results when care conflicts with efficiency—you'll sacrifice the deadline to protect the person
- •Over-invests in people who aren't growing, hoping patience will eventually pay off
- •Delays pruning underperforming projects or relationships because cutting feels like betrayal
Path to Growth
Your compassion can collide with your drive for results. You might delay a hard conversation because you don't want to hurt someone, then watch the problem metastasize. Or you'll invest endlessly in people who aren't growing while neglecting the ones who are. Growth means accepting that care sometimes looks like hard choices. Letting someone go can be an act of respect. Ending a project can free resources for better ones. When you learn to prune with purpose, your garden doesn't just survive—it flourishes.
Career Paths
Leadership Development: Talent strategist, mentorship program director, organizational development leader
Sustainable Growth: ESG strategist, regenerative development planner, long-term investor
People-Centered Leadership: Nonprofit director, community impact leader, mission-driven founder
Relationship Dynamics
You approach relationships as long-term commitments to mutual flourishing. You nurture, steady, and support—and you expect relationships to grow over time rather than chase constant excitement. Balance your patience with responsiveness: sometimes partners need immediacy, clarity, or swift action, not just gradual tending.
Personal Growth Plan
Set clearer decision thresholds: when care must lead and when efficiency must. Practice pruning—removing commitments, habits, or dynamics that drain your energy ecosystem. Develop comfort with accelerated timelines and spontaneous changes, recognizing that not all growth is slow or gentle.
Communication Style
You communicate with warmth, patience, and encouragement. To grow, practice decisive communication when stakes are high—direct feedback, clear requests, firm boundaries. Your impact multiplies when your empathy is paired with unmistakable clarity.