Icosa Atlas gives coaches a structural personality map and growth tracking system — centering plans as coaching roadmaps, gateway channels as natural growth leverage points, and a coherence score that shows integration progress over time.
You know when a client breaks through. Your clients know when something shifts. But showing that change to a skeptical sponsor, a HR department, or the client themselves six months later requires more than qualitative testimony. Coaching needs structural before-and-after data — and most personality tools were not designed to produce it.
A client can follow every coaching exercise and still stall. Without a structural map of their personality, it is hard to distinguish a productive edge from a genuine structural barrier. Knowing that a client's Move-Relational center is suppressed while their Focus-Mental is dominant explains the avoidance pattern you have been circling for six sessions. The map surfaces what conversation alone takes months to reach.
MBTI gives you a type. DISC gives you a behavioral style. Neither was designed for longitudinal tracking — the instrument does not change to detect movement, and there is no infrastructure for accumulating a trajectory across sessions. A coaching engagement should produce richer data at month six than at month one.
Good coaches develop strong intuitions about their clients. The gap is translating those intuitions into something the client can also see — a structural map that externalizes the pattern and makes it discussable. When both coach and client can point at the same geometry, the coaching conversation shifts from abstract to specific.
Every profile generates a personalized centering plan from the geometry of the client's grid. Seven centering strategies — including momentum building, gateway activation, and stability anchoring — are applied based on what the profile shows. The plan identifies which centers to prioritize, why, and in what sequence. It functions as a structural coaching roadmap, not a generic self-help list.
Learn more →Every assessment your client takes becomes a timestamped data point in a longitudinal trajectory. Smart Retake delivers 10–15 targeted questions between sessions — the specific items most likely to detect meaningful change — so you accumulate a current trajectory without re-administering the full instrument every session. Progress is visible in the timeline, not just felt.
Learn more →The 20-center profile resolves into one of 75+ named geometric formations — a structural portrait of how the personality is currently organized. Formations like the Achiever, the Peacemaker, or the Strategist describe patterns of activation and suppression across the grid, not fixed types. As coaching progresses, formation shifts become concrete markers of structural change.
Learn more →Nine fixed positions in the personality grid — Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality — have elevated cascade potential. When a gateway is open, growth flows through it; when closed, it becomes the highest-leverage target for coaching intervention. Gateway status tells you where to focus before the client tells you where they are stuck.
Learn more →The coherence score (0–100) measures how well a client's inner systems are working together — how integrated their personality structure is. It is a single number that captures overall integration progress across the full 20-center grid. Tracking coherence across sessions gives you an objective measure of whether the work is producing structural integration, not just insight.
Learn more →Your client completes an Icosa assessment — Standard (32 questions, ~5 min) for most coaching contexts, Comprehensive (91 questions, ~15 min) for deeper engagements. They receive their full profile immediately: the 20-center grid, coherence score, formation classification, and centering plan. You access the same profile from your clinician-tier account with appropriate permission.
In your next session, open the profile together. Walk through the formation: which centers are activated, which are suppressed, what the gateway status reveals. Review the centering plan's prioritized strategies and translate them into concrete coaching commitments. The structural map externalizes the pattern and makes it discussable in a way that narrative alone cannot.
Every few sessions, run a Smart Retake — 10–15 questions targeted at the centers most likely to show movement. The timeline accumulates the trajectory automatically: formation evolution, coherence trend, gateway activation shifts, and centering plan updates. At the end of the engagement, you have a structural record of the transformation — before, during, and after.
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Most personality tools used in coaching answer one question: what type is this person? Icosa answers a different question: what is the current geometry of this person’s personality, and where are the leverage points for change?
The 20-center grid maps four Capacities — Open (receptivity), Focus (directed attention), Bond (attachment and connection), Move (action and expression) — across five Domains: Physical, Emotional, Mental, Relational, and Spiritual. Each of the 20 centers has an activation level and a relationship to every adjacent center. From that structure, the system computes over 300 metrics in under a millisecond: formation classification, gateway status, trap detection, basin identification, and a centering plan with personalized growth strategies.
For a coach, this creates something that type-based tools cannot: a map that is specific enough to generate interventions and dynamic enough to track change. When a client’s profile shows suppressed Bond-Relational alongside elevated Focus-Mental, that specific combination produces a concrete centering strategy — not the generic advice that “connection matters.” The coaching conversation becomes more targeted because the structural map is more specific.
The centering plan is not a self-help checklist. It is derived from the geometry of the client’s profile: which centers are displaced, which gateways are closed, what the formation suggests about the path of least resistance toward integration.
Seven centering strategies are applied based on what the profile actually shows: momentum building, gateway activation, basin strengthening, stability anchoring, crisis stabilization, and others. Each strategy targets a specific structural pattern with specific priorities. The plan updates automatically as the client’s profile evolves — so after a Smart Retake reveals meaningful change, the centering plan reflects the new geometry.
In practice, coaches use the plan as a session agenda: which center to work on this session, which gateway to activate over the coming month, which basin to reinforce when the client is under stress. Structural specificity replaces coaching intuition with a concrete target — which is not a constraint on the coaching relationship but a clearer view into the terrain.
The nine gateway positions in the Icosa grid are not metaphors. They are structurally identified locations — Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality — with elevated cascade potential relative to adjacent centers. When a gateway is open, change in that position propagates readily through the personality system. When a gateway is closed, it becomes the single highest-leverage target for intervention.
Gateway status tells a coach something specific: not “work on communication” but “the Voice gateway is closed, and it is the highest-cascade-potential position in this client’s current formation.” That structural specificity is the difference between circling a theme and intervening at a leverage point.
A coaching engagement without measurement is a conversation without a record. Smart Retake captures the trajectory between full assessments using the 10–15 questions most likely to detect meaningful change in the client’s specific profile — not a generic short form, but a dynamically selected probe based on what the profile actually needs to resolve.
The timeline accumulates automatically: formation evolution, coherence trend, gateway activation changes, centering plan updates. By the end of an engagement, both coach and client have a structural record of what changed, when it changed, and in what direction. That record serves the client as evidence of their own growth — and serves the coach as documentation of outcomes that extends beyond testimonial.
Icosa Atlas is a personality assessment tool designed for structured growth tracking in non-clinical contexts. It is not therapy and does not replace it.