MNTEST™

The official Multiple Natures assessment.

We built MNTEST to give you a clearer picture of how you engage with the world. It looks at your shape across the Nine Natures and the Ten Intelligences, so you do not get reduced to a type. You get a profile: what comes naturally, what tends to cost more, and where your energy is most likely to move cleanly. The work began with Steven Rudolph's search for a better way to understand human potential without flattening people into labels.

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Profile range

10 quintillion+

possible Nature and Intelligence combinations.

Not 16 types. A profile across all nine Natures and all ten Intelligences.

Track record

300,000+

Profiles delivered

36 years

Behind the work

Used in education and workforce settings.

MNTEST is not only a personal assessment. It has been used where people are making decisions about study, training, employment, and client support.

Greater Raritan One-Stop has used the Multiple Natures framework with career-center clients since 2019. SOS Children's Villages India has used the work since 2012, with more than 10,000 children reached to date.

SOS Children's Villages India is also undertaking a longitudinal study to examine job placement outcomes and the role MNTEST may have played in student success.

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What it returns

MNTEST gives you two profiles: your Nine Natures and your Ten Intelligences. The Natures show the kinds of work, problems, and needs you naturally move toward. The Intelligences show how you take in information, work with it, and turn it into action. Together, they give you a profile, not a label.

For a plain-language introduction before you request the assessment, read Why You Thrive Here and Not There. It is free in ePub and PDF.

Nine Natures

What kinds of demand you are oriented to meet.

Ten Intelligences

The channels through which you engage.

Profile

A relative shape across the full set, not a type.

Your Nine Natures profile

The relative shape of Protective, Educative, Administrative, Creative, Healing, Entertaining, Providing, Entrepreneurial, and Adventurous in your nature. Not a type. A profile across all nine.

Your Ten Intelligences profile

The relative shape of Gross Bodily, Fine Bodily, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical, Linguistic, Graphic Visual, Spatial Visual, Musical, and Naturalistic. Which channels carry signal more readily for you, and which carry less.

The two together

What kinds of demand you are oriented to meet — and the channels through which you actually meet them. The combination is what makes a profile useful in a particular situation, and what the MN Situation Map works from.

How it works

1

Request access. Send us a note through the contact form and tell us you'd like to take MNTEST. We respond within 24 hours with a link to the assessment.

2

Answer from what feels true. There are no right answers and no time limit. The point is to catch the pattern, not perform for the instrument.

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Receive your profile. You get a profile across all nine Natures and all ten Intelligences, so you can see the shape rather than reduce yourself to a type.

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After the test

MNTEST tells you what is in your shape. It does not tell you what is happening to you in your current situation. That is a different question, and it is what the MN Situation Map is for. The Map takes the profile produced here and reads it against a written intake about where you are, what is working, and what is not. The result is a Situation reading you can use to see the pattern around you, not just the pattern inside you.

How MNTEST is different

Most assessments stop at the person. They name a type, trait, strength, or preference, and the result starts to feel like an identity. MNTEST is built to keep that from happening.

It returns a profile across the Nine Natures and the Ten Intelligences, then leaves the situational question open: where does this shape actually fit, and what kind of work will call it forward?

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