I cannot leave a good question alone.
Most of what I've created began with something I could not explain, something I had lived, witnessed or watched people struggle with long after the obvious answers had failed.
So I kept following the question.
This is not one model.
It is a body of work.
Some of it helps us understand what shaped us. Some helps us change what happens in the moment. Some helps leaders and organisations see where alignment is breaking. And some helps people sell, lead and build without manipulation, rescuing or becoming the entire asset.
Not every idea does the same job. Here is the map before we go wandering through it.
Research threadValues, meaning, organisational wellbeing, leadership, reliability and validity.
Different questions. Different models. One body of work.
It is shaped by whether we know what we need, honour where we end and another person begins, and remain in relationship with our emotional truth.
Needs. Boundaries. Emotions.
The emotional-needs map created by Remi Pearson.
Emotions help reveal which need is asking for our attention.
Fix it out there.
Turn toward what is here.
What is coming up for me?
What is this asking me to notice?
What needs my attention?
The risk is not danger. It is the vulnerability of staying with ourselves.
Knowing why a pattern exists is not the same as being free to respond differently. These three models work at different points in the human-change journey.
Human question:
Why does something that happened long ago still have so much power now?
Accurate explanation:
A complete methodology for finding the emotional history beneath a current pattern, loosening the charge and limiting beliefs attached to earlier experiences, reclaiming the authentic self and carrying new learning into action.
Explore DSRHuman question:
What happens in the thirty seconds when I know better and still leave myself?
Accurate explanation:
EIT works in the live moment of activation. Catch the Point of Departure. Stay with the emotion beneath the protective response. Choose while remaining connected to yourself.
Catch Stay Choose
Explore EITHuman question:
How do I build a life that feels meaningful because it is actually mine?
Accurate explanation:
A research-informed framework for strengthening meaning in life by connecting personal values with self-concordant goals, action, self-regulation and reflection.
Exploration Elicitation Direction Action Reflection
Developed through Remi's Master of Applied Positive Psychology capstone, drawing on positive psychology, evidence-based coaching, ACT and self-concordance research.
Explore the techniqueDifferent questions. Different moments. One human life.
When something keeps failing, leaders often prescribe more effort. CAM asks a better question: where is alignment actually breaking?
Different gap.
Different intervention.
Created by Remi Pearson
I hired researchers to challenge CAM, operationalise it and build a profiling tool that could be tested for reliability and validity.
The final 16 dimensions returned internal-consistency coefficients from .692 to .904. Factor analysis closely reproduced CAM's Environment, Structure, Implementation and People domains.
It reveals where alignment is breaking and what kind of thinking or action the situation requires.
Explore CAMIt translates CAM into a developmental assessment of thinking preferences across 16 dimensions and 41 characteristics.
Take the mini profilerNot a personality label. A development map.
People, teams and organisations do not need the same thing at every stage. The useful question is not which level sounds best. It is which kind of thinking the present problem requires.
Created by Remi Pearson · informed by Spiral Dynamics
T.R.U.S.T.M.E. reveals the operating logic a person, team or organisation returns to, especially under pressure. Every level solves a problem, creates new limits and points toward the thinking required next.
You cannot solve a problem from the same thinking that created it.
How do I lead without carrying everybody?
A philosophy and practice of leadership built on truth, responsibility, accountability, healthy relationships and the ability to hold space. Set clear standards. Give honest feedback. Develop capable people. Stop rescuing, controlling or rewarding helplessness.
The first 90 days should be treated as a disciplined inquiry. Your work is to observe, collate, synthesise, understand and assess before you begin making substantial changes. Leadership begins with seeing what is actually there, including what nobody thought to tell you.
Developed by Remi Pearson · built on the Critical Alignment Model.
Listen · Question · Notice · Trace the work · Find the unwritten ground rules
Compare · Test assumptions · Analyse trust · Identify the real gaps
Align · Establish rhythms · Strengthen the system · Develop leadership capacity
Do not confuse arriving with authority with arriving in possession of the truth.
Decide what excellent looks like. Find an aligned model of excellence. Study the thinking, process and standards. Apply it, measure it and adapt.
Research-informed practice, not a claim that everything must be invented from scratch.
What is the rationale? What facts are needed? What problem does this solve? Which CAM domain is actually weak? What are the consequences, costs and possibilities? Is the decision replicable and sustainable?
A decision tool for replacing reflex with inquiry.
Also in the toolkit
Weekly priorities that keep 90-day goals moving.
The culture on paper versus what actually happens.
Benchmarks, development, performance and the next cycle.
Truth before certainty. Standards before slogans. Capability before rescue.
These two bodies of work came from the same refusal: I did not want good people manipulated into buying, and I did not want talented founders trapped inside the thing they had built.
How do I help someone make a quality buying decision without scripts, pressure or bullshit?
Diagnose before prescribing. Understand the buyer's values, needs and decision process. Communicate intangible value clearly. Recommend only when there is a genuine match.
Explore Ultimate Influence
A conversation, not a performance.
A Meta Dynamics model created by Remi Pearson.
What deserves my attention if I want to build something stable, useful and able to live beyond me?
The owner delivers the widget. The owner goes away and so does the income.
Core can be delivered by others through documented systems, benchmarks and capability.
Income should be the least surprising thing about the business.
An idea should be useful enough to live beyond the page.
I love the process of discovery. But I do not want a clever-sounding model simply because it makes a good diagram. Where research can challenge, strengthen or operationalise an idea, I want it in the room.
Created through Remi's Master of Applied Positive Psychology capstone.
Research-informed by positive psychology, evidence-based coaching, self-concordance, values, goals, ACT and self-regulation.
Read the researchAn applied study of The Coaching Institute's culture during COVID.
The work identified authentic leadership and playfulness as important positive practices alongside established organisational-wellbeing research.
Explore the studyCAM was challenged, operationalised and translated into the Meta Dynamics Profiling Tool.
Reliability and factor analysis were used to test the measurement application.
See the evidenceEverything on this page was created by Remi Pearson, with intellectual foundations acknowledged where relevant. T.R.U.S.T.M.E. is informed by Spiral Dynamics. The Meta Dynamics Profiler is the measurement application of CAM.
Come for the conversation. Stay for the question.
Watch or listenDo something useful with all this.
See the programsSix books. A few questions I still cannot leave alone.
Meet the booksPodcasts, panels, keynotes, books and senior-level facilitation.
Invite RemiThoughtful ideas, new Perspectives conversations and the occasional invitation. I'll write when I have something worth saying.
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