Enter the experience
You work through designed simulations and decisions without being told in advance what they are intended to reveal.
Crack Your Strengths Quotient®
Discover your
Unique Position of Strength™.
Not another profile to explain. An experience that lets you see how you actually think, decide, engage and act when the situation does not wait.
- 3 daysLive, in person
- 4 weeksGuided integration
- SingaporeIntimate cohorts
WHY
HOW
WHAT
Three perspectives. One pattern in motion.
Experience before explanation
Most assessments describe you after the fact.
CSQ lets you encounter yourself in action.
Under time, ambiguity, competing priorities and real consequences, automatic patterns become visible. Only then do we introduce language, reflection and structured models—so the insight is grounded in something you have actually experienced.
Notice what appeared
The debrief does not judge your behaviour. It helps you recognise the patterns, assumptions and choices that showed up.
Acquire useful language
Motivation, DISC and CliftonStrengths give you distinct lenses for understanding why, how and what you naturally do.
Tune your action
Recognition becomes practical when you can choose how to use your patterns in relation to a real goal, constraint or environment.
The three circles
Your Strengths Quotient is not a fourth test.
It is the pattern formed when three different dimensions of you are seen together—and then tested against how you actually operate.
Motivation Index
What moves you?
Your motivational priorities reveal what energises you, what creates drag and what you may be trying to satisfy beneath the visible goal.
DISC
How do you engage?
DISC describes behavioural style: how your behaviour is expressed through your focus on problems, people, pace or place, and process.
CliftonStrengths
What do you naturally do?
Your themes are recurring patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. They become strengths when deliberately developed and reliably applied.
Until we can diagnose, we cannot recognise. Until we can recognise, we cannot acknowledge. Until we can acknowledge, we cannot tune.
The three-day experience
Not three days of content.
Three days of seeing more clearly.
The exact exercises remain protected because discovery matters. What we can tell you is how the experience develops.
Day one
Observe the system you already are
Build a common language for themes and strengths. Encounter how you define problems, organise capability and pursue outcomes under constraint.
- Strengths Quotient foundations
- Integrity and cognitive dissonance
- Talent themes in action
- Systems and outcomes
Day two
See how you engage with reality
Explore behavioural style, motivation, feedback and correction. Notice what happens when your preferred way of operating meets other people and the environment.
- Theme range and dynamics
- DISC and behavioural style
- Motivational priorities
- Feedback under pressure
Day three
Integrate what you have recognised
Connect the patterns to purpose, direction and future action without turning the experience into a fixed identity or another box to inhabit.
- Purpose and calling
- Creating the future
- Constraints and choices
- Personal integration
Your Unique Position of Strength™ Profile
A synthesis—not three separate summaries.
Your profile brings together your motivations, behavioural style, natural themes, lived context and what was observed during the experience.
Its purpose is not to prescribe who you should become. It is to make the pattern easier to recognise, discuss and apply.
Explore the next cohortThe patternWhat becomes visible when the three circles are integrated
Your behaviour flowHow motives, style and themes move into action
Strength and failure patternsWhere your natural way of operating helps—and where it can distort
Your leverage pointThe most useful shift in relation to your current goals and constraints
Practical applicationSituational examples for work, relationships and meaningful economic activity
4
Weeks of integration
The immersion creates recognition. The next four weeks help you use it.
Live integration sessions help you revisit what appeared, apply it to real situations and develop a more deliberate correction loop. The aim is not dependency on a facilitator. It is greater agency in your own action.
CSQ may be useful when
What worked before no longer answers what comes next.
- You have capability, but your effort feels scattered or expensive.
- You are navigating a career, business or life transition.
- You want to understand your patterns without reducing yourself to a type.
- You are ready to test your assumptions through experience, not just discussion.
- You want clearer language for the value you can create in a changing world.
Created and facilitated by Douglas Ng
Built through live experience—not assembled from theory.
Douglas created CSQ in 2014 as a simulation-rich program for seeing how people actually operate. The work emerged from decades at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, human capability and experiential learning.
His role in the room is not to tell participants who they are. It is to create the conditions in which patterns become visible, then help participants reflect without flattening what happened into a neat answer.
Founder, Strengths Quotient Institute
Entrepreneur · Technologist · Program Architect
Upcoming CSQ experiences
Choose the cohort that fits you.
Applications are reviewed before participation details and the program fee are provided. No payment is collected on this website.
August 2026
CSQ in English
Three-day live experience in Singapore, conducted in English, followed by four weeks of integration.
November 2026
CSQ with Vietnamese translation
The CSQ experience conducted in English with Vietnamese interpretation for the cohort.
Exact dates, location and application details are provided in the relevant Google Form.
Frequently asked questions
Before you apply.
For anything not covered here, write to CSQ@StrengthsQuotient.com.
Is CSQ a personality test?
No. CSQ uses established instruments, but the program is built around embodied action under constraints. The profiles support interpretation; they do not replace the experience.
Which instruments are used?
CSQ integrates CliftonStrengths, DISC and the Motivation Index. Each answers a different question: what you naturally do, how you express behaviour and why certain outcomes matter to you.
What is the format?
The core program is a three-day, live, in-person immersion followed by four weeks of guided integration. Cohort-specific timing and location are supplied during the application process.
Will I receive a profile?
Yes. The Unique Position of Strength Profile synthesises the assessment inputs, your context and the patterns that become visible through the CSQ process.
Why is the program fee not shown?
CSQ is application-first. The application helps us understand fit and provide the complete participation details to suitable applicants before any commitment is made.
How does the application work?
Choose your preferred cohort and complete the Google Form. The CSQ team will review the application and contact you with the next steps. Submission does not guarantee admission or reserve a seat.
The next step
You do not need another version of who you should be.
You may need a clearer encounter with how you already operate—and what becomes possible when you can use it deliberately.