What is a Q Type profile?

Your Q Type profile reveals how these abilities combine in your own behaviour. It highlights your natural strengths, instincts, and tendencies showing how you typically approach problems, relationships, and uncertainty.

The system was developed with input from Professor Adrian Furnham, a leading psychologist specialising in personality and leadership, and John Taylor, former Head of Training at British Intelligence. Together they defined ten intelligence archetypes - distinct combinations of skills and behavioural patterns seen in both intelligence work and everyday life.

While the archetypes are inspired by roles inside intelligence organisations, the underlying behaviours appear everywhere: in workplaces, families, leadership teams, and everyday decision-making.

Your Q Type simply reveals the operating style that comes most naturally to you.