Unlocking Genius, Unleashing Innovation, and Empowering with Knowledge.
ESTE represents the Four Creative Thinking Modes that we naturally gravitate towards: Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering.
The ESTE® Self-Assessment is a powerful tool that illuminates your most unique and powerful innate traits. Understanding what motivates and inspires you is like unlocking a personal superpower that you can share with the world.
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EDUCATORS
Teaching STEAM and Entrepreneurship can present unique challenges for educators.
The ESTE® Self-Assessment equips teachers with insights into the innate traits that enhance their effectiveness in the classroom and in communication with administrators. This deep self-understanding empowers educators to build stronger programs, engage students more effectively, and inspire a passion for learning. By identifying their core strengths, teachers gain a powerful tool to elevate their impact and drive meaningful growth in their educational environments.
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PROFESSIONALS
Whether you’re a professional aiming to advance your career or a coach guiding clients through their unique journeys, ESTE® provides tools to support meaningful growth.
Our ESTE Self-Assessment and resources are crafted to foster genuine personal insight by asking thoughtful questions free from assumptions, stereotypes, and biases. This approach ensures that every individual gains a clear, unbiased understanding of their character and potential, empowering them to make purposeful, informed choices on their path to success.
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FAMILIES
The ESTE® Self-Assessment provides families with valuable tools to nurture each child’s unique strengths and needs.
Our resources include Self-Assessments for both adults and youth, creating a shared family experience focused on fostering self-advocacy, celebrating individuality, and building strong, supportive relationships grounded in trust. By empowering each family member to understand and express their true selves, ESTE® helps cultivate an environment where everyone can thrive together.
Backed by Research, Grounded in Science
The ESTE Self-Assessment isn’t just another career quiz — it’s built on a rigorous scientific foundation. Drawing from Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), an empirically proven framework for understanding how people build meaningful careers, ESTE helps you uncover your natural fit across Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, and Engineering.
Our approach integrates cutting-edge psychometric research with a deep understanding of how interests and personality traits evolve over time. This ensures that your results aren’t static or one-size-fits-all — they’re dynamic, relevant, and tailored to today’s ever-changing career landscape.
We don’t just measure who you are; we help you understand how your unique strengths and motivations interact with real-world opportunities, giving you a personalized roadmap to confidently navigate your future.
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.
Contact Us!
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