Career Confidence Starts
with Knowing How You Think.
Scientifically-backed self-assessments for teens, parents, and professionals built to connect strengths, guide growth, and prepare for life beyond the classroom.
Discover how ESTE can help you grow personally, professionally, and as a community.
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EDUCATION & ADMINISTRATION
Empower students and educators with ESTE’s scientifically validated assessment, designed to reveal innate thinking styles (Entrepreneur, Scientist, Technologist, Engineer) and strengthen collaboration, communication, and career readiness across learning environments.
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PROFESSIONALS & COACHES
Harness ESTE’s evidence‑based self‑assessment to uncover your core strengths, refine how you connect and lead, and model lifelong curiosity and growth as a parent, mentor, or coach—preparing yourself and others for meaningful career impact.
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STUDENTS & FAMILIES
Discover your own and your child's natural ways of thinking and feeling with ESTE’s inter-relational roadmap. Build shared language, confidence, and self‑advocacy skills together—starting a journey toward purposeful growth at home and beyond.
The ESTE Self-Assessment isn’t just another career quiz—it’s a scientifically validated tool grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), a widely accepted model for understanding how individuals form goals, develop interests, and build successful careers. Our framework is designed to reflect not only what you’re good at, but how you approach challenges, connect with others, and grow over time.
Unlike static personality tests, ESTE integrates modern psychometric techniques and research into cognitive development and motivation. This ensures that results are reliable (with a validation score of >0.8) and tailored for real-life application across school, work, and family life. Each assessment measures both thinking and relational patterns, creating an inter-relational profile that supports career exploration and deeper personal connection.
Our research has been peer-reviewed and presented at national conferences through both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA).
ESTE doesn’t just describe who you are—it reveals how your unique strengths shape the way you think, connect, and contribute, giving you a personalized roadmap to grow with confidence, build stronger relationships, and expand your impact in the world around you.
Backed by Research, Grounded in Science
ESTE Origins
As a kid, it seemed that the more I tried to pursue what I loved, the more I felt like an outsider. I wanted to be a smart enough kid to be liked by all and disliked by none.
For years, after decades as an aerospace engineer and nanotechnologist, I searched for a framework that helped me overcome a sea of fixed-minded thinkers.
After realizing that there is a connection between interests and careers and the four primary ways we think, I created the ESTE Framework (Entrepreneur, Scientist, Technologist, and Engineer) to help others discover and trust their natural curiosity and interests, nurture them, and protect them from stereotypes, gender, any other bias, and fixed mindset.
The ESTE Framework is the solution to the problem many of us encounter: it’s time we stop trying to fit into a one-size-fits-all expectation and start being proud to stand out for our unique skills.
FAQs
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ESTE’s Psychometric Self-Assessment is available for $97. This is the right choice for any individual self-assessment.
The Caregiver and Youth Package includes two Self-Assessments: Adult and Youth. $99
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The Assessment takes between 15- 20 minutes to complete.
Once completed, you will receive an immediate email with your inner traits.
Our team will review your results and your personalized Affirmation Roadmap will arrive in your email inbox within one business day.
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The ESTE Assessment is grounded in validated psychometric science, with a reliability score of 0.8 — meaning it consistently delivers dependable, meaningful results. Unlike many personality tests that focus on surface traits, ESTE digs deeper, uncovering your innate motivators, natural interests, and authentic strengths.
Our framework draws from decades of research in learning science and motivation theory, ensuring that the results you receive are not only accurate but highly personalized to you. We believe every person deserves insights that reflect who they truly are, not who the world expects them to be.
Plus, ESTE doesn’t just give you labels — it provides actionable roadmaps to help you apply your unique strengths to your career, education, or personal development.
In short: you can trust ESTE because it’s rigorously designed, evidence-backed, bias-free, and focused on empowering you to align with your most meaningful path.
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