Steven Rudolph developed this over thirty years. 9 natures, 10 intelligences — one person. Most people cannot see whether their current situation fits their nature, or how they have placed themselves inside it. The Multiple Natures® framework makes that visible.
300,000+ profiles. In use by practitioners in over twenty countries.
Most attempts to understand a person stop at one question. The work asks three. Each one looks at something different. Treating them as one is most of why people get misdiagnosed. The body of work has grown over thirty years to answer all three.
Their Nature — the kinds of demand they're oriented to meet, and the channels they engage through.
What their day-to-day demands of them, what it gives back, and where it's wearing them down.
What they're focused on inside their situation, what they're missing, and how that shapes what they think they can do.
Together, they answer whether this person is in the right place — doing the right work, in the right situation, seeing it clearly.
Of the three, the most often missed is the second — what your situation is actually asking of you, and what it's costing you to keep supplying. People are quick to look at themselves as the source of what's not working and slow to look at the conditions they're working in. Angela Duckworth, the #1 bestselling author of Grit, is writing into this dimension in her forthcoming book Situated (Scribner, September 2026). The work has been asking it as one of its core questions for thirty years.
Two tools anyone can use directly. One shows you what kind of work you're built for. One looks at your actual situation and tells you where the strain is coming from.
Assessment
The official Multiple Natures assessment. It returns a 25-page report with your profile across the Nine Natures and Ten Intelligences, plus the careers, tasks, and leisure activities you are oriented toward.
$195
A written report on your current situation. Built from your MNTEST results and a short intake where you describe what's happening. Returned as a PDF, usually within a day. Shows what's working, what's wearing you down, and where you could go next.
See how the Map works See a sample Read the free Situation book
The Multiple Natures framework has been used by institutional partners in education, workforce development, and youth career guidance. Sussman Education is promoting the framework to New York City schools. Greater Raritan One-Stop has used it with career-center clients since 2019. SOS Children's Villages India has used it since 2012, with more than 10,000 children reached to date.
It gives you the base profile: what kind of work comes naturally to you, what you are likely to notice, and which kinds of tasks fit how you work.
If you want to understand the fit between that profile and what your current situation is asking of you, the MN Situation Map is the next step.
