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Coming September 9, 2025 - the second edition of Personality Poker

Personality Poker: The Fast, Fun Way to Unlock Innovation, Collaboration, and Predictable Growth

Contrary to conventional wisdom, opposites do not attract. As a result, organizations hire and retain people who think alike. Although this is great for efficiency, it destroys innovation.

The key to high-performing innovation teams is to make sure that each individual is “playing to their strong suit” while the organization as a whole is “playing with a full deck.” You need to make sure you have all of the innovation styles fully addressed in your organization.

The original version of the book published by Portfolio Penguin is no longer available. However, the second edition in paperback or ebook will be coming to stores soon.

And if you want to go even deeper, you can either get certified in Personality Poker or hire Stephen to delivery a game-changing speech.

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Praise for Personality Poker®

I’ve been using Personality Poker for the 13 years I’ve served as CEO –it’s an invaluable tool that has helped me choose high-performing teams to execute on critical projects and initiatives. 'Playing the game' helps all of us identify our strengths and weaknesses, fosters better collaboration and truly supports our culture of innovation.”
Eric Dickson, MDPresident and CEO, UMass Memorial Health
Personality Poker is a simple yet extremely effective tool for understanding personality mixes and their impact on driving or blocking innovation.
Andrew BushellFormer Head of Innovation, Novartis Consumer Health
Personality Poker may be a game, but it provides some serious results.
Wouter KoetzierGlobal Innovation Lead, Accenture
Personality Poker is both enlightening and engaging. It’s a great exercise for any organization to inject some excitement while learning how to create functional teams.
Tom MorganGeneral Manager of Innovation & Process Improvement, Voith Industrial Services
Personality Poker is a fun and engaging approach to both personal assessment and understanding team dynamics. This approach helped me recognize how my own problem-solving approach may complement (or clash) with other team members, and gave me useful insights into future team development.
Ben CowlesP&C Business Insurance Service Operations, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
I thought I’d seen just about every profiling tool there was. Until now, those I’ve seen all required you to fill out questionnaires that are boring and can lead to biased answers. But Personality Poker got to the desired endpoint more quickly, more engagingly, and with less bias than any of these.
Rob, S. Innovation Champion, R&D Division, A Major Pharmaceutical
The result is a higher probability of stronger teams with a greater utilization of strengths and acceptance of differences than other group style awareness exercises.
Bruce HarnedPresident, MarketFit Associates
Personality Poker is an interactive experience that transforms how teams collaborate and innovate – with results that last. I played ten years ago and I recently again with my team and still see the impact it creates.
Claudia SanchezMarriott Vacations Worldwide

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