What Our Clients Are Saying About CORE Assessments
“I had been achieving the same level of success, some ups and downs, but about the same level for many years – not bad but getting boring and not moving ahead toward my goals. More and more, my personal satisfaction with my day to day activities as well as my “dream” life was decreasing. I was looking for something new, exciting and achievable. I was a bit depressed, not feeling like I was making a difference in my own life or anyone else’s. The love and respect I received from others was not meaningful because I wasn’t feeling it for myself.
I had taken dozens of assessments that I hoped would move me forward from the place where I seemed to be stuck and though I got a lot of information, none of it got me anywhere. Needless to say, I didn’t expect to get anything different from CORE MAP, but WOW! What a difference!!
Now, I am looking at WHAT I do as well as WHEN I do it to create a more satisfying life experience. Checking out the relationship between my goals and me strengths has made a huge difference in the results I am getting. One of the many things I got from CORE MAP is an understanding of the complexity of how I work and cope, and how I can manage that to be more effective.
I have already re-arranged the way I do things (increased office help, for instance) and am more patient with myself when doing the things that are less joyful, but still necessary. I am not feeling as frustrated with life in general and, therefore, am a much nicer person to be around! It is easier for me to accept letting others be in charge of activities they are better suited for, and I am just not as stressed!
It’s wonderful!
Julie van Dezande, Austin, TX
I have been hearing great things from both managers and employees regarding the CORE Profile and training. Communication is improving and stress levels seem to be diminishing. I highly recommend the CORE assessment personally and professionally.
Linda Dorsey, Sr. Training & Education Rep. – NEC Unified Solutions
I have worked with countless instruments that provide information about an individual based on their responses to a series of questions. I even completed my doctorate on one. I was skeptical, then, when I first heard of the CORE MAP and I believed it to be a watered down version of other more substantial instruments. Imagine my shock, then, when I found this profile to be amazingly accurate and on-point for me. I heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about themselves or wants to address long-standing issues that may be standing in the way of their personal effectiveness.
Ollie Malone, Jr., Ph.D. – Pennzoil
CORE has been an exceptional tool for hiring. I am especially impressed with the part 3 results which are right on in predicting current behavior and development as well as EQ. I have used many assessments, but none measure up to CORE.
Jason Arenburg – AB Group, Inc.
I have taken the DISC, MBTI and a number of other assessments and have studied the MBTI in substantial detail, and thought I had a pretty firm grasp on my core temperament and preferences. However, when you facilitated the CORE MAP instrument with me, I saw a part of me that had been repressed throughout my childhood, schooling and work career. You worked with me to see how my ‘Entertainer’ could become central to my functioning. And, as I engaged with this notion, I was suddenly overwhelmed with sadness that I had been missing this in myself for so long, and relief and joy that I could claim it for myself now. I felt for the first time that I had permission to be my true self. The insights I gained through your facilitation and the assessment itself have opened up whole new possibilities for my life both personally and professionally. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Mark Youngblood, Quay Alliance Consulting
When I was first introduced to CORE MAP, I was mildly skeptical about its value to me personally. I'd not only studied psychometrics in my psychological training, but I'd earned income for a time designing various kinds of educational and psychological assessments. I'd led dozens of seminars using various MBTI-related materials and conducted therapy groups with all the standard psychometric and self-report tests used as prompts for initiating self-discovery. My dissertation included the development of a career decision-making assessment, and I'd used many of the available vocational guidance tools in my career and corporate coaching. I didn't expect to find anything much new or different in the assessment arena.
What kept me from simply dismissing CORE MAP with a bored and cynical "ho-hum" was the tantalizing prospect of finding buried treasure. A great friend of mine had once told me, "the curse of being multi-talented is that you can never develop all of your potentials, so you will inevitably feel unfulfilled." Before encountering CORE MAP, I knew there were entertaining things I hadn't done yet, but I also judged my life as pretty dadgum fulfilling. Still, there was just enough curiosity left about what might be hidden, undeveloped, or untapped in my personality to incline me to try this thing on for fit.
I felt just slightly defensive about the implication that incongruent results meant I didn't know myself, but I was more intrigued by the possibility than offended, so....Lo! and Behold! ... Eureka! ... Shazzam!! I found gold! (It was right there in the profile results.) The Entertainer in me had been kept waiting in the wings for too much time, for inadequate reasons. And not even three days after the CORE MAP consultation, I stepped up to the front of the training room and hit a home run with a program I'd only watched before. A week later, I conducted a complicated, delicate training that had been two years in the design phase, with my wife amongst the trainees. She gave it two thumbs up! (You'd have to know my wife to know how significant that is. She's incredibly supportive, but she's also got a finely tuned bulls**t filter, as well. Two thumbs up is wayyyy good.) Two weeks after that, I stepped into another training I'd only observed, and my co-facilitator covered my forehead with gold stars and proclaimed my work as "Excellent!"
I'm sooooh pumped about the results! It's not just that the results of investing energy in my Entertainer have validated CORE MAP as an extremely valuable tool; it's that I feel like I've come home. I'm recognizing parts of what I'm like, of who I am, of who I like to engage with the world, as if they were long lost friends! In psychological terms, I'd call it a significant reintegration of ego-synchronicity, but what it really feels like is ... I’ve got my groove back.
Mark Rogers, Ph.D., QUALITY LEADERSHIP - Corporate Coaching and Consulting
I have a very successful career but over time it has brought me less and less joy, and little satisfaction. The trappings of money or recognition are no longer enough to block out the pain of living inauthentically. My conditioned behavior had dominated my life and this has been very painful. As I got older the need to be who I was designed to be became stronger and stronger; so much so that I could no longer turn a deaf ear, I have searched and searched with no relief until CORE MAP. The power of this tool has not only met, but has greatly exceeded my expectations. My biggest surprise was that I have been operating for a lifetime as an ‘Organizer’ when I am a true ‘Commander/ Entertainer.’ For years I have hidden my ‘Commander’ and setting it free has given me a huge boost of energy, motivation and real joy!
CORE MAP has given me invaluable insights into myself and others. Understanding myself has made it so much easier to relate to and understand others and has enhanced my relationships in very positive ways.
I think every person on the planet should have the benefit of this amazing tool. I feel empowered to move past all the judgment that have kept me trapped (my own and others) and be my true self (and true to myself). From this place of freedom I can now move forward to support myself and others with strength, conviction, joy, understanding and LOVE.
Deborah Henderson, PMP, Chicago, IL
CORE MAP is a huge success and is even winning over the skeptics as they see how accurately the profile predicts how someone will do on the job. The benchmark you helped us create for hiring is proving to be very accurate and valuable as well.
Tim Cocklin – New Homes Realty, Inc. Orlando, FL
We have looked at hundreds of assessments over the years hoping to find one that would actually deliver the depth of information we were after. None did before now. I’m very impressed with what can be gleaned from CORE MAP.
Jeff Kaye, Kaye-Bassman Int’l, Dallas, TX
Unlike other personality tests I’ve taken in the past, CORE MAP gave me a more complete picture of how I saw myself vs. how I really am. Seeing where those areas aligned was very powerful, and has helped confirm some gut feelings I had about where I want to head, and where I want to make some changes. My assessment is that it was a much more complete valuation of all parts of the person tested. I’d recommend it highly.
Willie Baronet – GroupBaronet, Dallas, TX
The CORE MAP and the follow-up coaching was “just what the Dr. ordered”. It was insightful in pointing out where my true passion and motivation lies. I felt empowered to create a more satisfying life. Other assessments don’t go far enough. CORE MAP not only told me about my strengths, but raised my awareness of personal liabilities. It hit the nail right on the head.
Dale Perryman – Consultant
I benefited extensively from my CORE MAP profile, both in terms of the information it provided and in terms of how it was presented. I had been through personality profiling before, as an undergraduate, a Naval Officer, a graduate student and as a corporate employee (the MBTI in the last instance). Though I often found the process interesting, I left only with information, not actionable information.
From the CORE MAP profile, I was able to understand some very unproductive behaviors in ways that were entirely new to me. The “aha” moment came when I realized how I had begun to rely on old, ineffective behaviors as my primary way of approaching situations. Though I had felt this to be the case, I had never before been able to verbalize and understand it so clearly. I left our review session with both excitement and a renewed belief that other, more productive aspects of my personality were either accessible within me or in a latent state and capable of being developed. Since the initial session, I have used the CORE MAP framework, in conjunction with other tools, to look at the other areas of my personality that had been underdeveloped or ignored for years. I know that I am a great deal more than the few, basic behaviors that I had been using in the day-to-day living of my life, and through this process I have been able to name those other areas and take very concrete steps towards developing them.
Colin Lindhal – Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX
When Marc convinced me to complete a COREMAP assessment, I assumed it would be a very similar management profiling technique to many I have undergone over the course of my career. I was wrong! The assessment provided me with unique insights into what I desired from my career and highlighted conflicts between my needs and the path I had been pursuing for many years. I strongly recommend this process for anyone wishing to have a better understanding of themselves, but particularly to those making significant career decisions. It helped me jettison the baggage and zero in on the career choices that will be personally fulfilling and have the highest likelihood of success.
Charles Drayton – Dallas, Texas
My personal and professional enthusiasm, and consequent endorsement, of the CORE Multidimensional Awareness Profile knows no bounds. I would describe my life as an seven out of ten before taking the CORE profile. Yet, as a lifestyle coach, I wanted ten out of ten. I knew I had yet to experience that elusive state called ‘flow’. In one personal coaching session fifteen years of internal conflict and tension became clear. Suddenly, I understood that the reason I never felt quite right in my own soul was because it wasn’t really my soul. It was the soul of the woman I thought I had to be. My journey since the CORE MAP experience has been liberating and empowering. Each day I glimpse more of that authentic woman I was always meant to become and I know that CORE MAP has been a faithful mirror that has helped me to see my true self for the very first time.
Rebeka Rosenthal – San Antonio, Texas
I realized about twenty years ago that something was wrong, either with me or with the world around me. I began a lengthy pursuit of the truth as to which was which. I waded through hordes of self-help books, attended seminars, even spent seven years in conventional therapy with no positive result. The CORE profile and your self-discovery program were a Godsend, and a stellar example of the type of work that can benefit all of mankind. A thousand thank-you’s.
Frank Hanrahan – Kanata, Canada
Thank you for taking the time to review my CORE profile with me. I shared the information you gave me with my boss. He’s decided (based on the information) to assign me to a job site in New Mexico where I will increase my salary by 50%! Thank you so much for giving me the understanding and the courage to know and ask for what I want. People often look for miracles in their lives. You were mine!
Mara Landivar – Dallas, Texas
My CORE analysis was LIFE CHANGING! This is the best way I can describe your CORE Profile. Even though I have spent many years on my own personal development, I still discovered a new awareness of myself (and who I really am) that I am really excited about. After experiencing your program, I believe that the first timer, just starting on the path of self-discovery, as well as those who have studied personal development for a long time, can benefit immensely from the CORE Profile.
Harriet Meyerson – The Confidence Center – Dallas, Texas
It is hard to express in words how grateful I am that our paths crossed. I feel as if I have finally been given permission to do what I want. I now have a glimpse of an opening door all because of you and the CORE MAP Profile.
Kelly Stokes – Carrollton, Texas
“You cannot put a price on all that CORE MAP has to offer people. This is exactly what the world needs and I am SO privileged to have had the opportunity to experience this remarkable tool.
Cynthia Dee – Newark, NJ
