Mindset Work · Diagnostic
The Mindset Profiler™
The only psychometric that measures fixed mindset triggers.
Most mindset assessments produce a single label: growth or fixed. The answer is always both, because mindset moves along a continuum depending on the situation, the pressure, and the uncertainty involved.
The more useful question is: Where does a person’s or team’s mindset go when things get difficult?
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Mindset Profiler Measurement
What it measures
The Mindset Profiler is a validated assessment that maps your personal, team, and cultural fixed mindset triggers: the specific situations, relationships, and pressures that consistently activate a fixed mindset response.
The eight fixed mindset triggers assess a broad range of patterns, from how we respond to feedback and setbacks to how we react when our competence feels exposed in front of others. Most people have one to three that are dominant, and these tend to show up in the same types of situations, with the same physiological signals, time after time.
Teams and organisational cultures also have collective fixed mindset triggers that influence team effectiveness, collaboration, innovation, and the ability to thrive and lead through continuous change.
When the senior management team unpacked their mindset profile reports, they felt relief. We all felt mind-blowing!
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People find freedom in exploring their fixed mindset triggers as they are normalised, since everyone has them, and because they move along a continuum. Learning that mindset is developed in situation-dependent ways, and exploring triggers through the lens of beliefs, emotional representations, and action tendencies, frees the person from judgement and self-criticism. It reframes triggers as something they can notice with self-compassion and experiment with, using new practices and tools to change the prediction and learn a different response.
People also discover that their fixed mindset responses are triggered in part by the context and cues of the culture they work in. Each response is the result of a complex interaction between personal beliefs, past experiences, and the organisation’s or team culture, as communicated by its policies, practices, and behaviour.
Fixed Mindset Triggers
The eight triggers the Profiler measures
The Profiler measures fixed mindset activation across eight triggers. Each trigger is a specific condition where a person’s behaviour is more likely to move from learning into prove-and-protect mode.
Comfort Zone
Challenges
Setbacks and Failure
Feedback
Success of Others
High Effort
Grit
The Report
What the Mindset Profiler report provides
Every participant receives a personalised report in their inbox after completing the profiler. The report maps scores across all eight triggers and benchmarks them against a global dataset of 90,000+ assessments. For each trigger, the report explains what the score means and why it matters.
The report includes a set of evidence-based strategies matched to the participant’s profile. These are practical actions grounded in the research, designed to be used in the flow of daily work.
Profiler Report
Comfort Zone
Take on one unfamiliar task a week, and start it before you feel ready.
Individual, team, and organisation reports
Individual reports map personal trigger patterns with benchmarked scores and matched strategies. Every person who completes the Profiler receives one.
Team reports aggregate the data across a team to reveal shared patterns, collective blind spots, and the triggers most likely to surface under pressure. These reports form the foundation for the workshops that follow.
Organisation reports show where fixed mindset triggers cluster across the culture, and which policies, practices, or norms cue a fixed mindset response and reduce growth behaviours. These reports inform the design of culture and leadership programmes.
In Practice
How organisations use the Profiler
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As a starting point
The Profiler is the entry point for every GMI programme. Participants complete the assessment before the first session, so each has their own report available during the workshop. Their report shapes everything that follows: the self inquiry work, the development of metacognitive skills, the experiments they design, and the strategies they practise. Every session connects back to their Profiler data.
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As a team diagnostic
Aggregated Profiler data show where a team’s fixed mindset trigger patterns cluster. Which fixed mindset triggers are most active across the group when there are high stakes, pressure, or uncertainty? It creates a map of shared action tendencies and the areas where there is friction, unproductive behaviours, or avoidance. The team report makes these patterns visible and specific enough to work with, and forms the foundation for the team workshop that follows. This underpins the design of which tools, strategies and practices can provide practical change within the team.
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As a cultural measure
Across an organisation, Profiler data reveals which fixed mindset triggers are impacted by systems or cultural cues, for example, performance systems, feedback norms, and recognition structures. This helps map whether growth behaviours are supported or thwarted. With benchmarking against a global dataset of 90,000+ profiles across most major industries, the data helps organisations understand how their people’s responses compare across roles, functions, and regions.
GMI’s Strategic Mindset Workshop is the most transformational programme we have ever run. People left the programme with the tools and intentions to change. The programme received the highest NPS score, outperforming all other programmes.
Organisations using the Profiler
Validation
Built with the researchers
No other mindset psychometric measures at the trigger level.
The Mindset Profiler developed out of the discovery Susan Mackie made when researching mindset: it was a False Growth Mindset. Susan, along with Professor Carol Dweck, identified these as fixed mindset triggers, the predictable situations where mindset moves along a continuum.
The instrument was then researched and validated by Susan Mackie, John Rives, Professor Carol Dweck (Stanford University), Professor Mary Murphy (Indiana University), and Associate Professor Katie Muenks (University of Texas at Austin) over two rigorous years, with more than 5,000 test subjects across multiple countries.
The Connection
From profile to practice
The Profiler report is the starting point, and it is designed to connect directly to what follows.
Each person’s fixed mindset trigger data shapes their self inquiry approach, the metacognitive practices they build, the experiments they choose to work on, and the strategies they practise after the trigger clinics. The report is a working document that people return to throughout the programme as their discovery and insight into their fixed mindset patterns deepen.
At the team level, aggregated Profiler data informs the design of the team workshop and identifies where the group’s trigger patterns are creating shared blind spots or unproductive norms. At the organisation level, the data surfaces which systems and cultural cues are activating fixed mindset triggers across the business, giving leaders specific areas and goals to redesign.
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Map the fixed mindset triggers for yourself, your team, or your organisation
The Mindset Profiler™ measures eight trigger dimensions. Fifteen minutes. Benchmarked against 90,000+ profiles across 500+ organisations in 40+ countries.