You know your Archetype. Now face what's holding you back

The objective is greater clarity about the patterns shaping leadership, decision-making, relationships, and performance under pressure, together with the expansion of responses available in complex professional situations.

For leadership teams and organizations, see the organizational engagements page.

Archetype Deconstruction

Uncover how your strengths turn against you under pressure.

You already know your Archetype. This is where we break it apart.

Most high performers don’t struggle because they lack strengths, but because their strengths are overextended or compensating for something deeper.

This process reveals where your Archetype begins to work against you and what that’s costing you.

You'll walk away with:
A precise breakdown of your behavioral patterns under pressure
(not how you think you operate, but how you actually do)
Clear identification of your primary blind spots
(including where your strengths start creating friction)
A personalized Strengths Wheel
(focused on strengths you've mastered and strengths you only apply situationally)
1 or 2 deep-dive diagnostic sessions
(where your patterns are mapped and challenged in real time)
A structured report translating your patterns into actionable insight
Most people stop at knowing their type. That is exactly where growth stalls

For high performers who feel they’ve outgrown surface-level self-awareness, but can’t yet see what’s holding them back.

This is a private diagnostic session, not a standardized coaching package.

Shadow Mapping Breakthrough

Expose and dismantle the patterns you cannot see yourself.

This is the full diagnostic and transformation process.

For those who don’t want a surface-level understanding, this work goes straight to the root: mapping the patterns, strengths, blind spots, and underlying drivers shaping your behavior.

It combines deep internal analysis with external perspective to reveal what you cannot see on your own, and what’s been limiting your performance, decisions, growth, and relationships.

This package includes Archetype Deconstruction

What this process delivers:
A complete map of your behavioral patterns and blind spots
(across work, relationships, and high-pressure situations)
A Shadow Profile
(uncovering the hidden drivers behind your reactions and resistance)
External perspective through structured interviews
(revealing how your patterns impact others)
An Advanced Archetype Conflict Map
(identifying internal contradictions that create friction or inconsistency)
A clear behavioral roadmap
(focused on removing constraints and stabilizing new patterns over time)
A guided deep-dive
(process where these patterns are actively challenged)
Third-party participants involved in the process receive more than a standard assessment. In addition to the free Archetype PDF, they also receive a personalized professional-pattern analysis and a 60-minute interpretation session with Niels Barends.
This is the point where most clients see what they’ve been missing for years.

For individuals who want a complete understanding of what’s driving them without going through a step-by-step process.

This is the starting point for most clients.

This is a private, high-touch process.
Only a limited number of clients are accepted each month.

Elite Integration

Turn insight into consistent, measurable behavioral change.

Insight does not create change. Repetition does.

This phase is a six-month partnership focused on integrating everything uncovered in the diagnostic process into how you actually operate: daily, under pressure, and in key relationships.

It is designed to ensure that your patterns don’t just become visible, but permanently altered.

This package includes the full Shadow Mapping Breakthrough

What this engagement delivers:
Full implementation of your behavioral roadmap
(translating insight into consistent action and decision-making)
Ongoing pattern correction and calibration
(ensuring old behaviors don’t quietly return under pressure)
A personalized integration system
(tailored to your work, relationships, and leadership environment)
Progress tracking and behavioral feedback loops
(so change is measurable)
Strategic guidance across real-life situations
(where patterns are actively reshaped in context)
Third-party participants involved in the process receive more than a standard assessment. In addition to the free Archetype PDF, they also receive a personalized professional-context Archetype profile and a 60-minute interpretation session with Niels Barends.
This is where transformation becomes visible.

For individuals who are committed to not just understanding themselves, but fundamentally changing how they operate.

This is a private, long-term engagement.

Only a small number of clients are accepted at any given time.

This package has limited capacity to ensure a high-quality experience. If the Elite Integration package is fully booked, you may join the waiting list and we will contact you as soon as a spot opens up.

Private Coaching

€399 /50 minutes

Professional Pattern Analysis Report

€129

Professional Pattern Analysis 60-minute Call

€349

Private Coaching is available only to existing clients following completion of The Shadow Mapping Breakthrough or Elite Integration.

The Professional Pattern Analysis Report is generated from your assessment responses and provides a deeper analysis of how your Archetype operates across real professional situations. Your report will be delivered within 24 hours after completion of the assessment.

The 60-minute consultation expands this analysis into a live strategic discussion focused on how these patterns operate within your actual professional environment. A personalized consultation summary will be delivered after the session.

For Terms and Services, click here .

The assessment helped me understand who I am at my core in a professional environment and how I operate, especially under stress.

Holly DolkeOwner, Dolke Consulting

Shadow Mapping Breakthrough didn’t just show what I do under pressure, but why certain patterns keep repeating when decisions become serious.

Faron SchenkersInnovation manager, Nationale Nederlanden

Compare All Packages

Feature	Archetype Deconstruction	Shadow Mapping Breakthrough	Elite Integration
Time Horizon	Short-term insight	Medium-term clarity & restructuring	Long-term behavioral change
Depth of insight	Focused diagnostic	Comprehensive behavioral mapping	Full integration & transformation
Core focus	Identify how your Archetype operates under pressure	Map and expose your blind spots and behavioral patterns	Integrate and stabilize new patterns in real-world situations
Archetype assessment and report	✅	✅	✅
Shadow Side assessment and report	❌	✅	✅
Personal coaching sessions	❌	Targeted sessions	Ongoing high-touch engagement (6 months)
90-minute interview	Initial diagnostic interview	Multi-session diagnostic process	Integrated diagnostic & implementation process
3rd party interviews	❌	External perspective (selected stakeholders)	Expanded external mapping across environment
Shadow pattern mapping	❌	✅ full map	✅ with deep integration
Support access	Limited follow-up support	Structured support period	Direct, ongoing access
Upgrade credit	Applicable toward advanced engagement	Partially credited if continuing	—
Ideal for	Those seeking clarity on how they operate under pressure	Those who want to understand what’s actually limiting them	Those committed to fundamentally changing how they operate
Investment	€4.950	€10.950	€20.000+ (free consultation before commitment)