Assessment

The place most people begin

The Cognitive

Signature Assessment

A focused 60-minute exploration that maps the hidden patterns shaping how you think, decide, and act — and reveals the exact bottleneck that is costing you the most clarity, creativity, and energy.
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What Happens in the Assessment

Most of what shapes your
thinking is invisible to you.

Every leader has a cognitive signature — a specific, individual pattern of how they process information, make decisions, and respond under pressure. Most of that pattern operates below conscious awareness. It was shaped by decades of experience, feedback, and adaptation. It is not random. And it is not fixed. In a focused 60-minute session with Dain Dunston, we map that pattern. We identify the specific cognitive and somatic habits that are shaping your thinking — including the ones that are quietly draining your clarity, your creativity, and your energy.

When you see what lies beneath, the way ahead becomes clearer.

Your cognitive signature →
hen you see what lies beneath, the way ahead becomes clearer.
  • How you make decisions.
    Visible to you and others
  • Your communication style.
    Observable in daily interactions
— Beneath the surface —
  • Override patterns.
    What triggers automatic reactions
  • Bandwidth leaks.
    Where your energy quietly drains
  • Your primary bottleneck.
    The exact mechanism keeping you stuck
What Happens in the Assessment

Three things you leave with.

01

The
Session

A structured, one-on-one 60-minute exploration with Dain Dunston, conducted via video call. We map your override patterns, identify your primary cognitive bottleneck, and test a hypothesis about what is costing you the most bandwidth.

This is not a coaching session. It is diagnostic — precise, focused, and immediately actionable.

02

Your
Cognitive Signature Map

A personalised document that maps your specific patterns — what triggers override, where bandwidth leaks, and the exact mechanism keeping you from your next level of clarity.

This is yours to keep. Most clients return to it repeatedly over the months that follow.

03

A Clear
Next Step

At the end of the session, you will have a concrete protocol to begin addressing your primary bottleneck — something you can apply immediately, before anything else changes.

If you do not leave with that clarity, you pay nothing.

 

THE GUARANTEE

If it isn't clear,
it isn't charged.

If at the end of your Assessment session you do not have a clear understanding of your primary operating bottleneck and a concrete protocol to begin addressing it, you pay nothing.
Full refund. No questions asked.
We offer this guarantee not as a marketing device, but as a statement of what we believe the work should deliver. If it doesn’t, we haven’t done our job.
◈ Full refund guarantee — no conditions
WHO IS IT FOR

You don't need to be in crisis.
You just need to be curious.

The Assessment is designed for leaders who sense that something in the way they are currently operating has a ceiling — and who are ready to look beneath the surface to understand what that ceiling is.

You may be at a transition point: leaving a role, building something new, or simply feeling that the thinking that brought you here will not take you where you want to go next.

You may be performing at a high level and still feel that something essential is not being expressed.

All of these are good reasons to begin.
  • "I keep making the same decisions and getting the same results."
  • "I'm performing well, but something essential isn't being expressed."
  • "I'm at a turning point and I want to understand what's really driving my choices."
  • "I sense there's a deeper intelligence in me that I'm not fully accessing."
  • "I want to lead from a place of genuine clarity, not just accumulated habit."

YOUR GUIDE

Dain Dunston

Executive Coach · Author · Explorer of Human Potential

Dain Dunston is an executive coach and author with thirty years of experience working with leaders at the edge of what leadership can become.

He is the author of Being Essential: Seven Questions for Living and Leading with Radical Self-Awareness, and the co-creator of Reclaiming Genius with neuroscientist Dr. Leonard Khirug.

The Cognitive Signature Assessment is the foundation of all the work he does with individual leaders.

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Choose a time that works for you. The session is conducted via video call and takes 60 minutes. If you have questions before booking, you are welcome to reach out directly.

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Questions? Write to dain@reservoir.llc

 

Who We are
Reclaiming Genius
The Assessment
What lies beneath is what lies ahead.
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