Emergenetics

Our personalities emerge from our genetics and are further shaped by our ongoing life experiences. Emergenetics is a unique and flexible approach to personality profiling that is based on the latest brain research. It’s easy to find out more about yourself by taking our straightforward, online Emergenetics questionnaire.From your answers, we use our innovative and proprietary system to mathematically convert your strengths into percentiles and generate a colorful Emergenetics Profile using four Thinking Attributes (Analytical, Structural, Social, and Conceptual) and three Behavioral Attributes (Expressiveness, Assertiveness, and Flexibility). Like snowflakes, each Profile is unique; a visual representation of who you are, how you think and your natural strengths. And with Emergenetics, you never have to choose one attribute over another. Our profile shows you the big picture, and can tell you a great deal about yourself and those around you.

The Emergenetics Profile is based on years of research involving over 275,000 participants. Each new profile taken is automatically scored and retained in our database, ensuring that your results represent the most accurate depiction of your thinking and behavioral attributes. For more information on the research and science that goes into Emergenetics

HK North Bulletin no. 30 22 - 28 January 2007
Rotary Club Luncheon Meeting

Guest Speaker Mr. Scipio Wu gave a very interesting talk on “Emergenetics” which is the theoryof how borne character and learned experience affect our way of thinking and behaving. There is a mathematical way to assess “who you are”,“how your think” and “what is your strength” by way of a series of questionaires to extract his/her thinking attributes (i.e. whether he/she is a Analytical,Structural, Social and Conceptual thinker)and behavioral attributes (i.e. whether he/she isExpressive, Assertive, and Flexible). Knowing yourselves and knowing others would help team building, problem solving, communication etc.Find out more from the Internet if you are interested!According Mr. Wu, there was evidence of a “second brain” residing somewhere in our body!Hence there is such thing as“gut feeling”!For our young rotarians,please take note that thefirst 6 years is an important learning period for your kids because this is there period with intensive growth in their nervous system network.

Geil Browning, Ph.D., is an author, educator, researcher, speaker and businesswoman. She is the CEO & Owner of Emergenetics International and The Browning Group International, Inc. - official distributor of Emergenetics products. In 2003 she was recognized as Colorado's Outstanding Entrepreneurial Businesswomen of the Year.Beginning her career as a teacher, Dr. Browning was an elementary school principal at the age of 26. Her lifelong interest in how people learn ultimately led her to study brain dominance research and to develop the Emergenetics Profile, first in a series of instruments that provide useful information on both thinking and behaving attributes. Returning to her educational roots, she developed the STEP (Student/Teacher Emergenetics Profile®), which allows parents and teachers of 9 -18 year old students to better understand their children, and to individualize their learning.Additionally, Dr. Browning founded the Institute of Career Advancement Needs (ICAN, Inc.), which sponsors Influence and Focus, two highly acclaimed executive development programs that have graduated over 2000 participants now in senior management positions worldwide.Dr. Browning received her doctorate from the University of Nebraska, where she was an adjunct associate professor, and has completed postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. She has lectured at numerous universities in the United States, Canada, Moscow State University in Russia, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Kuala Lumpur and National University of Singapore.Geil extends her interest in children as a founding board member of the Kenyan Children Foundation whose mission is to provide transformational experiences for Americans through compassionate involvement with Kenya street children. Frequently, she and her husband, Armistead, organize and lead groups to Nairobi, Kenya where they work with orphaned and destitute children, many of whom are HIV positive.


Emergenetics is based on the latest brain research as well as extensive data from over 275,000 adults. The Emergenetics Questionnaire is a reliable, valid, and proven test that provides invaluable insight into each individual’s natural strengths and helps everyone make the best of his or her Thinking and Behavioral Attributes.We are all born pre-wired to think and behave in certain ways. Our inborn characteristics are modified as we grow up and interact with our environment, creating our unique personality.Emergenetics is a self-descriptive test, meaning you answer a series of questions about yourself. Your results are compared against group norms by gender, allowing you to compare yourself to the population of women or men at large. We re-norm our data by gender every two years to make sure we are keeping current.

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Emergenetics follows the technical test development guidelines published in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.You have a natural “set point” for each Thinking and Behavioral Attribute. You may behave differently at home and at work, or while relaxed and while under stress, but your basic personality does not change. Each Emergenetics attribute is like a rubber band. Most of the time you operate with the rubber band at rest. Occasionally, the rubber band is required to stretch, but when the situation is resolved, it returns to its original shape. As a general rule, your test results will remain consistent over time unless you experience a significant life event, or decide to deliberately change