we specialize incracking your innate passion code...because it is passion that drives success

We've been coaching CEOs, Senior Managers and Individuals to 'move from their sweat-spot to their sweet-spot© ...since 2004!

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What is talent?

talent \ˈta-lənt\
Definition

A talent is a recurring and specific natural capability that is unique to the individual, which can be intentionally developed and productively employed

Application

A talent is an inexhaustible source of energy embedded in each individual, which when harnessed enables the person to produce extraordinary results and demonstrate exceptional performance

Our Research Framework

Our research is the culmination of more than 30 years of research into human talent design - the inherent talent architecture innately embedded in each individual.

After working with thousands of individuals, we finally answered the question "Does each individual have a specific and unique repertoire of natural capabilities embedded in them?," with a resounding, "Yes!"

These insights were not developed in the safe and secure world of academic research. They were birthed, developed, pummeled, proven, tried and tested in the rough and tumble of the corporate business world.

The integrity of our research stood and withstood the harshness of the marketplace (which often is ruthless and unforgiving), working with CEOs, Directors and Business Owners, who had little or no time for academic pontification.

Their bottom line was “If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work”, even if all the academics and management gurus at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford (or where ever) said otherwise.

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Our Consulting

Working with Corporates

We provide customized consulting solutions to help CEOs​ and Business Owners to "bet on the right people". Our diagnostic conclusions are data-driven, evidence-based and defensible in a court of law (unlike psychometric test results that are impermanent, algorithm-based and nebulous).

1. CEO Coaching

We coach CEOs and Senior Managers to experience "stress-free leadership". Our leadership coaching process is highly individualized and empowers managers with inputs and insights that they can leverage for a lifetime. Based on Zone-diagnostic results, we help them craft the following Advisories.

a) Advisory to Direct reports: This Advisory succinctly details inputs that will help those reporting to the individual to understand their leadership style, their leadership blindspots and how they can function best as a team.

b) Advisory to the Manager: This Advisory highlights evidence-based insights that will enable the manager (and senior management) ​to bring the best out of the individual. It is a must-have for managers who want to maximize performance output from those reporting to them.

c) Advisory to Colleagues: This Advisory details insights that will help the individual's colleagues and peers to understand and appreciate the person's niche and their best contribution to the team. This Advisory is invaluable to optimize team work, position individuals in team roles they can contribute maximally and to organically function as a dream-team.

2. Succession Planning

Leadership succession in a family-owned business or in a corporate organization, can make or break a successful business operation. We provide customized succession planning solutions that will factor in the unique inherent strengths of the individual passing the baton and the one taking charge, to ensure seamless leadership transition.

3. Senior Management Team-building

We help create powerful management teams by empowering each executive with definitive insights about what they do best and becoming cognizant of the specific talents and gifts of others on the team. Our team-building process is interactive, dynamic and helps create a team culture that is organic, collaborative and inter-dependent.

Email corporate@talentresearch.org to schedule a video/audio interview.


Working with Non-Profits

Similar to our work with corporate organizations, we provide non-profits with definitive people-inputs, that will drive organizational productivity and enhance team performance.

We understand the unique context in which non-profits are required to function and have customized solutions to unleash the passion and potential of those who yearn to work in a not-for-profit environment.

Based on Zone diagnostic data, we can help transform team work, enhance leadership capacity and empower the organization to deliver impactful results, especially when the bottom line is not driven by money, profit or stock holder value.

Email nonprofits@talentresearch.org to schedule a video/audio interview.


Working with Individuals

1. Helping individuals experiencing burn-out

We delight in cracking the passion code of an individual - more so, when they are experiencing burn-out or grappling with a mid-life career crisis and seeking career re-direction.

We specialize in enabling individuals move from their "sweat spot to their sweet spot" by providing them with specific and definitive career inputs, that will be consistently true for a lifetime.

The Productivity Compass program, is the only one of its kind that provides an individual-specific Sweet Spot statement that succinctly captures what makes them tick - and defines what they will do best during their lifetime!

2. Team-building for families

We help spouses build strong interpersonal bonds by teaching, coaching and empowering them with precise inputs about each other.

Our program is designed to undergird each spouse with definitive insights about the inherent strengths, proclivities and blindspots, native to the Zone of each other.

In our work with families, we have seen disruptive and dysfunctional relationships become constructive, meaningful and harmonious - simply by becoming aware of what makes the other person tick and using "coping strategies" to blunt the tension, by relating to each other sensitively and intelligently.

3. Career Counseling for students

We also provide career counseling for graduating university students, seeking career fulfillment. Our Zone diagnostic conclusions enable those embarking on new careers to have specific insights about the kind of roles, responsibilities and contexts they will thrive in - and get paid for work that is soulful and deeply fulfilling.


In our work with hundreds of clients spanning the globe (from Seattle, WA to Canberra, Australia and multiple countries in between)1 , we are yet to come across any individual who did not find the Zone conclusions specific, precise and practical, to help navigate both work and life decisions - without an exception!

Email careers@talentresearch.org to schedule a video/audio interview.

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Our Team

John B. Samuel is the Principal Researcher at Talent Research Foundation, who pioneered research in the field of talent diagnostics. He has a Masters in Psychology. In the course of his professional practice, since 1982, he has interviewed, researched and analyzed over 8,000 individuals to identify where they will be most productive and effective.

He served as Director of Manpower (India) between 1985 to 1988 and as the Executive Director of Potential Human Resources Private Limited from 1988 to 1997, assisting non-profits and corporate organizations​ in South Asia and South-East Asia, in hiring CEOs,​ Senior Managers and Executive personnel. He served as a Partner and member of the Board with People Management International LLC, based in Hartford, CT from 1997 to 2003.

In 2004, he launched the Talent Research Foundation to pursue his passion to research the phenomenon of Zones, which are innately embedded in each individual. John is supported by a team of Associates who share his passion to make this foundational insight about Zones, available to the "last man on planet earth!"

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Our Mission

"Our mission is to pioneer research related to the phenomenon of an innately embedded Zone in each individual, which is the principal factor that drives passion and productivity during the lifetime of a person."