NBI – Neethling Brain Instruments

How we think, and prefer to think, affects everything we do.

The Neethling Brain Instruments™ (NBI) are a suite of neuroscience-based assessments that provide insights into thinking preferences. Understanding your thinking preferences, as well as the thinking preferences of others, can have profound implications for personal effectiveness in a number of areas. These areas may include interpersonal communication, leadership, management, team dynamics, creativity, presentations, training workshop design, and more.

In the business world, it is important to have an intrinsic understanding and a sound appreciation of how each individual contributes to overall team success. This can be thought of in terms of how the individuals in a team can serve not only their team members, but their team as a whole. In doing so, the team can better serve the overall vision and mission of the business or organization. Knowing one another’s thinking preferences creates a solid foundation for such a collaborative, mutually beneficial approach. The NBI has a variety of focused tools for determining how each team member can serve their colleagues and their company by using their personal preferences in terms of wealth, leadership style, job success, creativity style, skills, personal negativity profile, and general adult profile.


Sample NBI General Profile

*Example of an NBI Adult General profile.

The NBI® Instruments by Category

The NBI General assessment can be combined with any number of the supplemental assessments below to facilitate exponential understanding, adaptation and transformation.

  • NBI Leadership Style
  • NBI Followership Profile
  • NBI Business Relationship Style
  • NBI Client Relationship Style
  • NBI Skills
  • NBI Job Analysis
  • NBI Desired Job
  • NBI Personal Negativity
  • NBI Skills
  • NBI Desired Job
  • NBI Parenting Style
  • NBI Personal Negativity
  • NBI Creativity
  • NBI Relationship Style
  • NBI Learning Style
  • NBI Teacher/Trainer