Growth Mindset Programs
Help your corporate leadership push out of comfort zones, build learning agility, and outsmart fixed mindset triggers that stall transformation.
"No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment."
Diagnostic Instrument
The Mindset Profiler
The Growth Mindset Institute's **Mindset Profiler** is the world’s most advanced online mindset survey, offering individuals deep insights into their personal mindset. Completed in minutes, it generates a highly customized report that maps individual behavioral triggers, providing teams with a collective vocabulary to understand how risk aversion impacts daily decision-making.
Each report includes evidence-based strategies for managing fixed mindset thoughts and behaviors. Teams can access their collective results to understand how individual triggers influence team dynamics, psychological safety, and corporate performance.
The 8 Fixed Mindset Triggers mapped by GMI
Detailed Analysis of the 8 Mindset Triggers
Beliefs
Assumptions about potential, capability, and intelligence.
High Effort
How hard work is perceived—as a sign of lack of talent or the way to mastery.
Challenges
Willingness to step into discomfort, take risks, or play it safe.
Comfort Zone
Resistance to change and preference for the familiar.
Setbacks
Response to obstacles, mistakes, and early failures.
Success of Others
Whether colleagues’ success inspires or threatens you.
Feedback
Openness to critique, guidance, and constructive advice.
Grit
Maintaining passion and perseverance for long-term goals.
Corporate Manifestations
How Fixed Mindsets Manifest in Boardrooms
Fixed mindsets aren't just personal beliefs—they translate directly into costly organizational behaviors that stall digital transformations and culture shifts:
Siloed Defensiveness
Trigger: Success of Others
Departments view another unit's successful transformation pilot as a threat to their own status or budget, rejecting cross-functional collaboration and creating political barriers.
Covering Up Setbacks
Trigger: Setbacks & Feedback
Managers hide early rollout issues or report inflated metrics out of fear that acknowledging a mistake equates to a lack of competence, delaying critical adjustments until it is too late.
Avoiding Bold Bets
Trigger: Challenges & Comfort Zone
Leadership selects safe, incremental projects over bold, high-potential innovations to protect their record, choosing comfortable mediocrity over the risk of learning through failure.
Lightweight Diagnostic
Interactive Mindset Self-Check
How does your leadership team typically react when a strategic project misses its target launch date? Select the option that feels most familiar:
Result analysis
Proven Methodology
Mindset Training Expeditions
We collaborate directly with Prof. Carol Dweck to design and deliver mindset training programs that are proven to develop a genuine growth mindset in people. Our programs are continuously updated to incorporate Carol’s latest research, ensuring that you get the best program possible for your teams.
Mindset & Me: Introduction
An interactive session designed to introduce mindset concepts and walk teams through the Mindset Profiler reports.
- Understand the Mindset Profiler metrics
- Identify one strategy to outsmart your strongest trigger
- Establish an immediate, accountable growth action plan
- Pre-work: Complete the online Mindset Profiler
Mindset & Me: Full Program
A deep-dive capability building workshop designed to build collective learning agility and psychological resilience.
- Review the latest scientific research on mindsets
- Learn all 8 fixed mindset triggers in depth
- Practice applying triggers via 4 specialized Clinics
- Team workshop mapping triggers to group decision-making
The Delivery Details:
- Facilitated by Accredited Mindset Facilitators.
- Includes online assessment and guided report interpretation.
- Training requires a 12-participant minimum cohort.
- Custom programs are available with hybrid coaching/training modules.
- Follow-up implementation clinics and reinforcement sessions can be contracted.
The Business Case
Psychological safety and growth mindset are profit multipliers
A positive, psychologically safe culture built on growth mindset principles directly multiplies productivity and retention.
27%
Increase in profitability in organizations with high psychological safety.
21%
Gain in productivity from psychologically safe, "joy-capable" teams.
2.5–4x
Less likely to quit, with 125% lower burnout rates, in safe environments.
80%
Of executives agree a "learn-it-all" growth mindset directly contributes to revenue expansion.
Targeted Interventions
Growth Mindset Coaching
Interpreting assessment data is only the first step. Our certified coaches partner with leaders to outsmart automatic defensive habits.
Individual Mindset Coaching
Embark on your personal growth mindset journey. Partner with a certified coach to take a deep dive into your Mindset Profiler results, identify the specific triggers affecting you, and design actionable strategies to outsmart them.
Group & Team Alignment
Allow your team's growth mindset to power organizational transformation. Bring the entire team to level up, understanding how individual fixed mindsets affect team dynamics and decision-making, and build empathy and support.
Global PartnerGrowth Mindset Institute are global leaders in online mindset assessment, having developed the first validated tool in partnership with Prof. Carol Dweck (Stanford University), Dr. Mary Murphy (Indiana University), and Dr. Katie Muenks (UT Austin). The Mindset Profiler is utilized by Fortune 500 companies in their mindset programs and is used daily across every continent.
80,000+
Mindset Profiles Globally
9+ Years
In the Market
40+
Countries Served
250+
Companies & Schools
Our Process
How We Deploy the Program
From initial assessment to long-term behavioral integration, we partner with you to ensure a seamless, high-impact deployment for your leadership team.
Scope & Kickoff
Alignment session with HR/L&D to define transformation targets and schedule the cohort.
Online Profiler
Participants complete GMI's online validated assessment in minutes to map individual triggers.
Interactive Workshop
Facilitated experiential clinics (60-min intro or 2-day deep dive) with personal action plans.
Reinforcement Clinics
Follow-up individual coaching or team reinforcement sessions at 30, 60, and 90 days.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common Questions & Security
What is the recommended cohort size for GMI programs?
For optimum engagement, we recommend cohort sizes between 12 and 24 participants. This allows for rich peer discussion and team trigger mapping.
Is the assessment data secure and private?
Yes. All diagnostic metrics are compiled via GMI's secure, GDPR-compliant platform. Individual answers are kept confidential, and only aggregated team reports are shared for group workshops.
Can we deliver the programs in a hybrid virtual/in-person format?
Absolutely. We support fully virtual deliveries via interactive platforms, in-person workshops, or hybrid models that mix virtual learning with live coaching.
How does this link with the FutureFit Gap Blueprint?
If your Step 01 Blueprint identifies a severe "Capability Gap" or "Culture Gap", a GMI workshop is the specific intervention recommended to close it.
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