A model built for validity, not vibes.
Leaping measures 34 talents grouped into four categories — Intellectual, Motivating, Influencing and Connecting. Every talent maps to decades of research on strengths, leadership and high performance, curated by TalentInsights over 20+ years of practice with teams in business, culture and sport.
We deliberately reject single-answer Likert tests, which suffer from social desirability bias and central-tendency effects. Instead, Leaping uses a forced-choice ipsative slider: for every question you weigh two talents against each other on a 1–10 scale. The strength of your lean — not just the direction — is converted into a graded score for each talent, so a near-tie and a full commitment produce very different signals.
Scores are normalised against the maximum a talent could earn given how often it appeared in your questions, so no talent is rewarded for being asked about more than another. Category strength is the average of your top three talents in that category, which surfaces where you genuinely cluster strength rather than regressing to the mean.
Alongside talents we measure the three drivers of intrinsic motivation from Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan): autonomy, competence and relatedness. These tell you not just what you're good at, but under what conditions you'll keep growing.
The result is a profile you can defend: reproducible, comparable across colleagues, and grounded in published behavioural science.
Each menu adds a layer of value.
Leaping is not a report you read once. Each menu is a different lens on the same underlying profile — and together they form a continuous loop from insight, to conversation, to action.
Dashboard
Your profile, at a glance.
- Top 5 strengths and bottom 5 watch-outs, with plain-language descriptions you can share.
- Category radar across Intellectual, Motivating, Influencing, Connecting.
- SDT motivation bars — see what fuels you, not just what you're good at.
- A single place to retake the quiz when your role or life stage changes.
Team
The collective fingerprint.
- Spider/radar of the whole team's category strengths with your own profile overlaid.
- Each member's top 3 talents — the team's actual strength fingerprint.
- Heat map of all 34 talents × members to spot superpowers (shared strengths) and blind spots (talents nobody owns).
- 1:1 compare view to prepare for pairings, hiring or delegation.
Goals
Strengths, turned into outcomes.
- Create development goals tied to a specific talent — not generic SMART goals floating in a vacuum.
- Track progress, link goals to strategy, and revisit in Dialogue.
- Suggested goals derived from your top 5 so growth compounds on strength.
Pulse
Lightweight, evidence-based check-ins.
- Short well-being and engagement pulses you can send to a team or individual.
- Anonymous aggregation with trend history so a single bad day doesn't skew the picture.
- Printable summaries for 1:1s and leadership reviews.
Dialogue
Structured 1:1s that actually move people.
- Preparation form for both manager and employee — based on the employee's talent profile.
- Guided conversation flow so the meeting covers strengths, motivation, friction and next step.
- Pulse history surfaced in the meeting so the conversation starts from data, not memory.
Strategi
From strategy slide to daily behaviour.
- Translate the team's strategy into concrete behaviours owned by specific talents.
- Team progress matrix — see who is leaning in on which behaviour.
- Connects directly to individual goals so strategy is lived, not laminated.
AI Leap
Your personal talent coach.
- Conversational coach that already knows your profile, top talents and SDT drivers.
- Ask for advice on a difficult conversation, a stuck goal, or a career move — answers are grounded in your data.
- Suggests collaboration tips when you compare with a colleague.
Admin (managers)
Aggregate insight without surveillance.
- Team-wide strength distribution and gap analysis.
- Sharing controls so colleagues choose what is visible to whom.
- Translation and content management for multilingual teams.
What we promise, and what we don't.
Leaping is a development tool, not a selection or ranking tool. We do not produce hire/fire scores, IQ proxies or personality verdicts. Every score is a starting point for a conversation, never an end point.
Profiles are owned by the individual. Sharing with a team or a manager is opt-in per surface, and you can revoke at any time from your settings. Aggregated team views never expose an individual's raw answers.
The model is versioned. When we tune scoring, change a question, or add talents, your historical profile is preserved so you can see how you've changed over time without the rug being pulled.