Innovator
“The future belongs to those crazy enough to imagine it.”
Understanding the Innovator
You get sudden ideas that feel exciting and full of potential. You enjoy exploring possibilities and imagining new ways things could work. You combine intuition with analysis, which allows you to develop ideas that are both imaginative and practical. You feel inspired when you can build something original or when you see a solution that no one else has noticed. You dislike feeling boxed in or creatively ignored.
Dominant Driver
Red is the drive toward intensity and honest expression. It shows up in people who act on what they feel, say the thing everyone else is dancing around, and would rather live a vivid life than a perfectly controlled one. This might be the friend who texts “I’m outside, let’s go”, the person who laughs loudly, cries openly, or makes big gestures when something matters. At its hardest moments, Red can jump too fast, stir up drama, or burn out—only realizing afterward that not every impulse needed to become an action.
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.
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.
Strengths & Weaknesses
✓Strengths
- •Transforms intuitive leaps into innovations that actually work
- •Generates breakthrough concepts with emotional and intellectual force combined
- •Sees possibilities others don't—connections between things no one thought to combine
- •Inspires others through sheer originality; your ideas make people feel like the future is possible
⚠Weaknesses
- •Abandons projects once the initial excitement fades and the real work begins
- •Struggles with slow refinement—editing, iterating, polishing feels like death
- •Resists feedback that feels constraining, even when it would make your work better
- •Scatters energy across too many brilliant ideas, none of which reach completion
Path to Growth
Your genius flares in bursts, but sustained creation demands a slower rhythm you'll resist. When the initial thrill fades, you might feel trapped by editing, iteration, or technical constraints—and be tempted to chase a new idea instead. Growth means falling in love with craft, not just inspiration. Mastery isn't the enemy of creativity; it's the container that turns flashes into legacies. Finish something. Polish it. Let it frustrate you. The best version of your work exists on the other side of the tedium you keep avoiding.
Career Paths
Creative Innovation: Product innovator, creative director, design-thinking leader, inventor
Research & Development: Experimental researcher, breakthrough scientist, R&D strategist
Entrepreneurship: Startup founder, serial entrepreneur, innovation consultant
Relationship Dynamics
You bring novelty, spontaneity, and imaginative depth to relationships. You help partners see the world differently and keep the bond alive with creativity and play. But not every moment needs reinvention. Stability, routine, and repetition are not threats—they’re substrates that allow deeper intimacy to grow. Honor what works, not just what’s new.
Personal Growth Plan
Choose one idea to shepherd all the way to completion—polish it, refine it, and let it frustrate you. Build rituals of focus and follow-through. Learn to love constraints as creative challenges rather than cages. Track your impact over time to see how refinement amplifies your innovations.
Communication Style
You communicate in sparks—exciting possibilities, metaphors, and big leaps. This energizes people, but can overwhelm or sideline more grounded voices. To grow, practice listening to constraints, integrating feedback, and building collaboratively. When your fire is paired with Blue’s patience, your ideas don’t just inspire—they endure.