Strategist
“Every move has a purpose; every purpose has a plan.”
Curiosity, Clarity, Precision, Mastery
Ambition, Power, Strategy, Self-interest
Passion, Impulse, Honesty, Risk
Fairness, Responsibility, Order, Boundaries
Belonging, Growth, Patience, Ecology
Understanding the Strategist
You see life as a series of challenges that can be solved with enough knowledge and foresight. You plan several steps ahead and you often notice patterns before others do. You enjoy optimizing systems, strategies, and long term goals. You feel most confident when you have a clear plan and a realistic sense of how to reach it. You may not always show it, but you think deeply about where your choices will lead.
Dominant 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
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.
Lacking Driver
When you lack White, plans stay vague, boundaries are unclear, and you often postpone decisions with a vague 'we'll sort it out later' until something breaks. Commitments feel optional, shared spaces slide into mess or drama, and it becomes hard to trust that anyone—including you—will actually show up in the way they said they would.
Lacking Driver
When you lack Green, relationships feel thin, transactional, or unstable, as if everyone is mostly on their own. Change gets pushed hard without much regard for people’s limits, leading to burnout or quiet resentment. There’s little sense of being rooted anywhere—communities come and go quickly, and it’s hard to feel held by a network of support rather than just surviving as an isolated unit.
Strengths & Weaknesses
- Thinks several moves ahead—you see where things are going before others realize the game has started
- Converts complex, abstract ideas into plans people can actually execute
- Stays cool under pressure; high stakes sharpen your focus rather than scatter it
- Finds the leverage point in any system—the one change that unlocks everything else
- Can treat relationships as secondary—useful or not useful, rather than human or not human
- Goes cold under stress, retreating into analysis when people need presence
- Defaults to control when collaboration would work better; you'd rather steer than trust
- Gets so lost in optimization that you forget why you started—winning replaces meaning