Discover Your Adaptability Intelligence

Build your capacity to navigate change, lead through uncertainty, and unlock new possibilities — with the AQ Assessment.

The River Analogy

Life is a lot like a river—constantly moving, winding, and sometimes unpredictable. When we strengthen adaptability, it helps us stay steady in rapids, choose our path with intention, and move forward with confidence.

Adaptability is the #1 skill for the future, according to the World Economic Forum and other leading organizations.

In a world where the pace of change has outpaced traditional ways of working, leaders must now navigate rapid technological advancements, shifting market demands, and evolving employee and customer expectations.

Where IQ helps us solve problems and EQ helps us manage relationships, today’s leaders and teams need AQ—their Adaptability Quotient—to stay relevant and resilient.

One of the best ways to start? The AQme Assessment by AQai — a personalized, practical introduction to your own adaptability profile.

What is AQ?

Whether you’re a team leader, founder, or simply looking to expand your perspective, the AQme Assessment helps you:

🔍 Understand your unique response to change

💡 Identify strengths and adaptability growth areas

🌱 Reframe challenges into opportunities for growth

Used by forward-thinking leaders and teams, AQai’s framework helps you uncover blind spots, reframe challenges, and grow your ability to adapt in an ever-changing world.

How it Works

Here’s how the AQme process works — simple, insightful, and designed to spark growth.

1

Complete the AQme Assessment

A confidential, research-backed tool that maps your adaptability traits across dimensions like resilience, mindset, and work preferences.

2

Receive Your AQ Report

Get a personalized insights report (think: easy-to-understand data that’s actually useful).

Debrief Your Results

Explore your results in a guided session with Sarah Nicole to help you translate insights into action.

For teams, we also offer group debriefs and workshops to help you build adaptability into your culture.

Let’s Expand Your Awareness

Feeling stuck in old patterns? Ready to think bigger?

AQ gives you the self-awareness and tools to lead with courage, flexibility, and intention.

If you’re curious about strengthening AQ for yourself or your team, get in touch.

Courage grows with action —
and so does your adaptability.

FAQs

  • AQ stands for Adaptability Quotient. It helps you understand how you respond to change and uncertainty — and what you can do to grow. It’s like a mirror for your adaptability mindset, skills, and behaviours.

  • AQai is a UK-based company that developed the Adaptability Quotient (AQ) assessment—a tool used in over 80 countries to help people and organizations measure and grow their ability to adapt to change.

    Optimal Affect is a certified Level 2 AQai partner, trained to interpret individual and team reports and support organizations in applying AQ insights to improve leadership, culture, and performance. While AQai provides the tools, Optimal Affect brings them to life through facilitation, coaching, and strategy.

  • The AQme assessment explores traits like resilience, mindset, motivation style, work environment preferences, and how you handle uncertainty. You’ll get a personalized report with insight into 15 key dimensions.

  • The assessment itself takes about 30 minutes to complete. It’s best to do it all at once with no distractions.

  • You’ll receive a detailed report summarizing your adaptability profile. To go deeper, you can book a personal debrief with Sarah to walk through your results and uncover next steps.

  • Item descLet go of the idea that “high is good” and “low is bad.” AQ scores aren’t about judgment—they’re about self-awareness in context. Every result needs to be considered in light of your goals and environment. Ask yourself: How important is this to what I’m trying to achieve? What impact does it have on my effectiveness right now?

    Not every dimension gets better when maximized. Take grit, for example—it’s valuable for perseverance, but too much can lead to burnout. The goal isn’t perfection. The goal is to understand your adaptability profile so you can make intentional choices, develop where needed, and adapt with more ease and impact.ription

  • Absolutely. Team assessments and debriefs help uncover shared strengths, gaps, and opportunities to grow adaptability together. It’s a great way to spark deeper conversations and support leadership development.

  • Yes. Your assessment results are confidential and only shared with you (unless you choose otherwise as part of a team experience).

  • Contact us and we’ll reach out with next steps. Whether you’re interested in taking the AQme yourself or exploring it for your team, we’ll guide you from there.