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For decades we’ve been told a code, color, or four letters can capture who we are. Know your type, know yourself. It’s nice. It’s tidy. Except we’re not statues. We adapt, we evolve. All day, every day. That’s not a flaw. It’s human. UNTYPED is a revolt. A scientific shift from boxes and types to the underlying elements of who we really are. Built on a decade of research—200 interviews, 8,000 surveys, hundreds of real-world breakdowns and breakthroughs—UNTYPED reveals 25 elemental powers that drive: How you read a room. How you create. How you argue. How you negotiate. How ...

Powering Your Career Podcast 🎙️ Bringing You Insights from Australia’s Energy Leaders Welcome to the Powering Your Career Podcast, a show dedicated to exploring the energy transition and the professionals shaping its future. Hosted by David Smith, founding partner and director of West Energy and West Recruitment, this podcast delivers authentic conversations with senior leaders from Australia’s energy sector. Whether you’re an experienced energy professional or considering a career transition into the industry, this podcast will equip you with: ✅ Career development insights from ...

There’s a line most people never cross. A line between brilliant—talented, competent, impressive—and something harder to name. The place where impact feels disproportionate to credentials. Where presence bends rooms, ideas, and outcomes. Where you can’t quite explain it, but you feel it. This book is about that jump. The force of an eleven, beyond anything the scale was built to measure. We’re trained to chase strengths, traits, types. But the real differentiator isn’t personality. It isn’t skill. It isn’t even intelligence. It’s intensity. How your core traits behave under...

Unscripted musings on business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other work-life events that get in the way of a good night's sleep. The Squid of Despair is a conceptual summation of what can go wrong, and often does, with mind-mapping or other creative techniques. Born out of an idea for a book back in 2010, David and Peter have now made this mythical beast rise once again, phoenix like (from under the ocean waves, so a bit soggy probably), to explore all matters relating to 'business life, leadership, creativity, transformation and all the myriad of other ...