Lumina Learning Profiling Tools
Unlock Clarity, Drive Leadership, and Build High Performing Cultures with Lumina Learning
At FidesOak®, we use Lumina Learning's innovative psychometric tools to deepen insight, build capability, and support coaching conversations that matter.
From personality profiling to recruitment to coaching, Lumina Learning provides individual clarity and team-level understanding that helps unlock sustained performance.
Whether you are looking to embed internal coaching capability, align leadership behaviours, or design competency based interview questions for recruitment, Lumina Learning offers measurable, practical insights that inform decisions and provides insight for development.
Explore how we use Lumina Learning tools to support your teams and leaders.
Find out more about Lumina Learning.
What is Lumina Learning?
Lumina Learning is a suite of scientifically validated profiling tools designed to help individuals and teams better understand how they think, interact, and lead.
These tools are not off-the-shelf diagnostics. They are launching points for meaningful conversations, about leadership, motivation, self-awareness, and difference, that drive individual and team transformation.
We integrate three core Lumina Learning tools into our programmes:
Lumina Leader©
A competency based 360° feedback tool for assessing leadership behaviour and impact, often used to guide senior leadership development.
Lumina Select©
A recruitment profiling tool that maps candidates against role-specific competencies, helping identify blockers and align questions to explore these.
Lumina Spark©
Personality profiling that reveals your unique combination of 24 qualities across three personas: Underlying, Everyday, and Overextended, and can be used with teams to identify areas of strength, appreciate diversity and acknowledge gaps.
Why We Use Lumina Learning?
Leadership development and coaching often begin with a question: “Where do I start?”
For many, it is hard to articulate what support is needed. That is where Lumina becomes invaluable. It provides an accessible but in-depth starting point, surfacing strengths, identifying potential blind spots, and introducing the language of personality, pressure, and behavioural difference.
Our clients value Lumina Learning because it:
Supports a coaching-led culture
Profiles are used as a springboard into 1:1 and group coaching.
Builds shared language
Around traits, motivation, and interpersonal difference.
Drives legacy
We use Lumina Learning tools in leadership programmes and to embed internal capability within your team.
Hear directly from the Paula Paterson, Solutions Director at FidesOak®, all things Lumina Learning.
Individual Profiling
Every participant receives a personalised Lumina Spark© portrait, mapping:
- Underlying Persona: Traits that show up naturally, often visible to close friends or family.
- Everyday Persona: The version you show the world day-to-day, often associated with work.
- Overextended Persona: What shows up under stress, including traits that may derail performance or communication.
This self-awareness creates powerful entry points for development.
With this insight, we can explore:
How strengths show up in role
How to use untapped traits more effectively
The impact of stress on behaviour and communication
What overextension looks like for leaders and how it is perceived by others
We regularly use Lumina Spark© with leadership teams, mapping all members’ profiles across the three personas to explore:
- Collective strengths
- Gaps and blind spots
- How the team behaves under stress
- Where difference becomes a strength or a challenge
These insights spark honest conversations around collaboration, communication, and resilience.
We also draw on Lumina Learning’s latest research to challenge assumptions about effective leadership. Many teams value ‘red’ traits (e.g. logic, drive, competitiveness), but studies show ‘green zone’ people-focused traits (e.g. empathy, collaboration) often add more value in leadership roles.
This helps leaders explore not just who they are, but who they need to be to lead effectively.
As part of our culture programmes, we support clients to build legacy, ensuring capability remains long after we leave.
Lumina Select© plays a key role in that process, helping clients:
- Collective strengths
- Identify potential derailers and design questions to explore these and existing strategies to overcome them
- Generate structured, fair, candidate-specific interview questions
- Map candidates against bespoke role competencies (chosen from Lumina’s 16 options)
Because it uses the same survey as Lumina Spark©, Lumina Select© also produces a personal Lumina Spark© portrait, allowing seamless continuation into coaching, mentoring, or onboarding development.
This makes Lumina Select© a powerful tool for both internal coach recruitment and role recruitment, and continuous development post recruitment.
Across safety-critical and performance-driven industries, Lumina Learning reveals unseen dynamics. In many high-hazard environments, we see teams clustered in ‘Red’ and ‘Blue’ archetypes: Commanding and Diligent.
These qualities are essential for operational rigour, but can overextend under pressure.
Common themes include:
- Over-collaboration under stress: Outcome-focused leaders leaning too far into people space during crisis
- Competitive traits: Exploring the line between personal drive and unproductive win-lose dynamics
- Mismatch in communication styles: Recognising and adapting when engaging with someone very different
These insights help leaders and teams grow more adaptable, emotionally intelligent, and effective.
Lumina Learning tools are one element of our wider cultural transformation approach.
By embedding Lumina into coaching, recruitment, and leadership development, we help clients:
- Build self-aware leaders
- Recognise and value differences and diversity of thinking
- Develop coaching cultures
- Sustain High Performing Teams and Cultures
They are effective not because they provide answers, but because they ‘spark’ insights that promote reflection.
Ready to Explore Lumina Learning?
Let us help you uncover the human data that drives performance.
Talk to our team to explore how Lumina Learning profiling tools can support your people, teams, and culture.
Or visit Lumina Learning to explore the science behind the tools we use.
Trusted by those we challenge
Drawing inspiration from the virtues that have always mattered to people, the FidesOak® team places trust, honesty and sincerity of intent at the core of everything we do.
Our clients trust us because we challenge with care, always in service of the change they're seeking and the outcomes they value. We ask the questions others might not think to ask - the ones that help clients find clarity and insight they can act upon.
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