Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro

Perosnality Poker Hand

Personality Poker vs Other Personality Tests

People often ask me if Personality Poker® is just DiSC or Myers-Briggs with cards.

The answer? A resounding NO.

Personality Poker was designed specifically for innovation, not just as another personality test. And unlike traditional written assessments, it reveals so much more.

Personality Poker is more than a game; it’s a breakthrough experience that exposes the hidden gaps holding your people and teams back.

While most assessments focus on confirming who you are, Personality Poker goes further by revealing who you’re not. And that missing piece? It’s often the key to unlocking better collaboration, smarter innovation, and more balanced leadership.

During the session, participants trade and gift cards, discovering in real time how others perceive them. This creates a powerful social mirror that breaks through self-perception bias, helping people drop their guard and see themselves more clearly—often for the first time.

This live, play-based interaction powers the GapMap360 Insight System™, a comprehensive framework that uncovers:

  1. Gaps in self-awareness – the disconnect between how we see ourselves and how others experience us
  2. Gaps in teams – the missing roles, styles, and perspectives that hinder high-performance collaboration
  3. Gaps in culture – the misalignments that make people feel like they don’t belong or can’t bring their full selves to work

By mapping these gaps in real time, Personality Poker helps individuals build self-awareness, teams build synergy, and organizations build cultures of collaboration and innovation.

It’s fun. It’s fast. It’s unforgettable.

And it works because it gets under the surface and shows people what really matters.

P.S. I love this picture because the Perfectionist card is upside down. So perfect!