Your team takes the RQ test.
The first certified assessment of relational capacities. In one hour, you have a clear, defensible read on how your people actually relate.
We train your leaders to interpret the results. You learn the patterns shaping your culture, the gaps quietly costing you, and where to start building.
Conflict resolves faster. Recurring people issues stop recurring. Leaders develop other leaders, and the coaching path replicates across every level of the company.
Meaning begins with human connection.
The Meaning Quotient (MQ) was founded on the belief that when we invest in our relationships, we transform our work. By understanding how your team interacts, MQ helps you cultivate a deeply purposeful culture.
Using the advanced RQ Test (formerly the TPRAT), we measure your team's relational capacity and provide actionable insights. Discover how your team connects, communicates, and thrives across four essential dimensions of connection.
MQ was founded by Natalie Dillow and Doug Brown.
We start by measuring how your team actually connects.
The RQ Test (formerly the TPRAT) gives each person a clear picture of their relational capacity across four essential dimensions. It's the same instrument trusted by thousands of leaders, and it's where every engagement begins.
From there, we walk your team through what the results mean. Not as a one-off debrief, but as the start of a real conversation about how your people work together and where connection is breaking down.
Then we train. Through workshops and group sessions, your team learns the language of relational health and starts building the capacities that show up in everyday work.
Coaching is where it sticks. We work alongside leaders and managers so the four capacities don't stay on a slide deck. They become part of how your company actually operates.
It's in depth, but the teams that do this work become the kind of place people want to be, and stay.
The RQ Test isn't new.
It's the result of decades of clinical work by Dr. John Townsend, built on a foundation of attachment theory and developmental psychology that goes back to John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth.
Where personality assessments tell you who someone is, the RQ measures something more important for teams: who someone is becoming. The four capacities (Attachment, Separation, Integration, Adulthood) are developmental. They can grow. And when they grow, the way a team operates changes.
This matters because the research on high-performing teams keeps pointing to the same thing. Amy Edmondson's work at Harvard introduced the concept of psychological safety, the shared belief that a team is safe for interpersonal risk taking. Google's Project Aristotle studied 180 teams and found psychological safety was the single biggest predictor of team effectiveness. More than talent. More than experience. More than structure.
But psychological safety is a result, not a method. You can't install it with perks or posters. It comes from people who have the actual capacity to be vulnerable, to differentiate, to hold reality, and to stay in mutual adult relationships under pressure. That's what the four capacities build.
This model has been used with thousands of leaders, executives, and teams around the world. It's evidence-based. It's deep. And it's built to last.
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Meaning Quotient can help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of the way that your team connects.