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Lumina

Transform Your Organisation by Celebrating People, One Human at a Time

Why Lumina Learning?

Lumina Learning combines advanced psychometrics with technology to empower people and organisations. Their tools foster collaboration, creativity, and problem-solving while reducing costs. By viewing people as whole human beings rather than just “human doings,” Lumina Learning helps transform organisational performance through personal transformation.

Lumina Spark

Unlock Deeper Self-Awareness with Lumina Spark

Lumina Spark is a next-generation personal development tool designed to help individuals and teams better understand themselves and each other. Moving beyond traditional personality tests, it offers a more human, flexible approach, recognising that people are complex, dynamic, and capable of growth.

A Modern Approach to People Development

Built on years of research and combining elements of Big Five psychology with Jungian insights, Lumina Spark replaces rigid labels with a more fluid understanding of personality. It encourages individuals to embrace their full range of traits strengths, contradictions, and all leading to improved self-awareness and stronger working relationships.

How It Works
  • Participants complete a detailed online questionnaire
  • Each individual receives a personalised “portrait” with deep insights
  • Facilitators guide teams through tailored workshops and activities
  • Practical tools and resources help embed learning into everyday work

This structured yet flexible approach ensures learning is both meaningful and actionable.

What Makes Lumina Spark Different
  • No labels or boxes – focuses on traits, not fixed personality types
  • Highly personalised – each profile reflects the unique individual
  • Customisable – programmes are tailored to your organisation’s needs
  • Easy to apply – simple language and visual models make insights stick
  • Built on science – grounded in validated psychological research
Real Impact for Teams and Organisations

Lumina Spark helps organisations:

  • Improve communication and collaboration
  • Reduce conflict and strengthen team dynamics
  • Build self-aware, emotionally intelligent leaders
  • Enhance overall performance and productivity

By helping individuals understand both themselves and others, teams can work more effectively and harmoniously.

Designed for Lasting Change

With its blend of personalised insights, engaging facilitation, and practical application, Lumina Spark creates lasting behavioural change, empowering individuals to grow, adapt, and perform at their best in today’s dynamic work environments.

Better self-awareness. Stronger teams. Smarter decisions. See how Lumina can transform your organisation.

Lumina Leader

Unlock Your Leadership Potential with Lumina Leader

In today’s fast-paced business world, many organisations excel in management but fall short in true leadership. Lumina Leader is designed to bridge that gap by nurturing leadership to its highest level. It empowers you to master your unique leadership style and adapt it to every situation and individual, driving peak performance in yourself and those you lead.

What is Lumina Leader?

Lumina Leader is an advanced leadership assessment tool grounded in the latest business theories. It provides deep insights into your leadership qualities and the needs of your team, focusing on four essential domains:

  • Vision: Crafting and communicating a compelling future direction.
  • Drive: Maintaining motivation and momentum to achieve goals.
  • Delivery: Ensuring effective execution and results.
  • People: Leading and inspiring individuals and teams.

Each user receives a personalized leadership Portrait that highlights their strengths and areas for growth. Additionally, Lumina Leader 360 offers valuable feedback from peers and team members, giving a well-rounded view of your leadership impact.

How Does Lumina Leader Work?

Lumina Leader equips you with practical tools to tackle common leadership challenges, including:

  • Coordinating and delegating responsibilities effectively.
  • Navigating new and unfamiliar situations with confidence.
  • Leading by example to inspire others.
  • Keeping your team focused on shared goals.
  • Motivating others toward a common vision.
  • Repairing communication breakdowns.
  • Resolving conflicts constructively.
Why Choose Lumina Leader?

What makes Lumina Leader unique is its personalised approach. Every product is tailored to your specific needs, ensuring relevance and impact. The tool also considers how different personality types influence professional competencies, allowing you to customize leadership frameworks that fit your organization’s culture and goals.

By using Lumina Leader, you’ll gain:

  • Greater self-awareness of your leadership style.
  • The ability to adapt your approach to suit different people and situations.
  • Clear goals for future development.
  • Enhanced confidence in leading teams and organizations.
The Value for You and Your Organisation

Lumina Leader helps you overcome leadership challenges you may have struggled with before. It supports you in setting meaningful goals and developing the skills necessary to lead effectively in today’s complex business environment. Whether you hold a leadership title or influence from any position, Lumina Leader empowers you to lead with vision, drive, delivery, and people focus.

Not sure where to start? Let’s have a conversation.

Lumina Team

Build High-Performing Teams with Lumina Team

Lumina Team is a powerful tool designed to deepen your team’s self-awareness and improve collaboration by revealing both how the team views itself and how others perceive it. As an extension of Lumina Spark, it requires no extra questionnaires and comes with the innovative Team Viewer application, enabling participants to visually explore and interact with their team’s unique dynamics.

The foundation of Lumina Team lies in understanding each member’s personality, motivations, and preferred communication styles. This insight fosters respect and appreciation for diverse contributions, which is essential for effective teamwork. 

 The Lumina Team profile clearly shows where each individual fits within the team’s overall character and highlights potential blind spots through an interactive team mandala. This shared understanding empowers teams to co-create a high-performing, cohesive environment.

How Lumina Team Works:
  • Use the Team Viewer to explore your team’s personality interactively.
  • Observe how team dynamics shift under pressure.
  • Learn effective communication strategies tailored to your team.
  • Apply insights immediately to improve team performance and relationships.
Key Benefits:
  • Recognise and value diverse working styles within your team.
  • Identify and address causes of underperformance.
  • Enhance communication to ensure your message is heard and understood.
  • Foster motivation and build teams that consistently deliver superior results.

Clients often describe the Lumina Team experience as a genuine “Aha!” moment, thanks to its easy-to-understand language and impactful visuals. By creating greater awareness and understanding, Lumina Team transforms groups into motivated, high-performing teams ready to achieve their goals together.

Curious about what’s holding your team back? Let’s uncover the opportunities together.

Lumina Sales

Transform Sales Performance with Lumina Sales

Sell Smarter by Understanding People

Lumina Sales is a science-backed sales development solution that helps organisations grow revenue by improving how their people sell. By combining behavioural insight with the sales process, it enables professionals to understand how their personality impacts performance—and how to adapt to win more business.

A New Approach to Sales: From Transaction to Relationship

Unlike traditional sales training, Lumina Sales shifts the focus from short-term transactions to long-term relationships. It helps sales professionals align their approach with the customer’s needs, remove ego from the process, and create meaningful, value-driven engagements.

How It Works

At the core of Lumina Sales is a personalised “Sales Portrait” that reveals how an individual’s traits influence each stage of the sales cycle. This allows professionals to:

  • Understand where they are in the sales process
  • Align with the customer’s buying journey
  • Adjust their approach in real time
  • Continuously evaluate and improve performance
What Your Team Gains
  • Stronger client relationships that extend beyond the sale
  • Greater self-awareness of strengths, blind spots, and behaviours
  • Improved negotiation skills through a collaborative approach
  • Better alignment with customer needs and priorities
  • A shared coaching language for managers and teams
Key Outcomes
  • Build rapport and trust faster
  • Deepen customer understanding
  • Improve negotiation effectiveness
  • Increase sales performance and conversion rates
Built for Modern Sales Teams

Whether you’re a sales leader, account manager, or consultant, Lumina Sales equips your team with the tools to navigate complex sales environments—helping you close more deals while building lasting customer relationships.

We don’t just deliver programmes, we partner with you. Let’s build something that works long-term.

Lumina Emotion

Enhance Emotional Intelligence with Lumina Emotion

In today’s complex and fast-changing world, emotional intelligence is recognized as a critical competency for personal and professional success. Lumina Emotion empowers individuals and organisations to understand, manage, and adapt their emotional responses effectively, leading to improved resilience, cooperation, and meaningful behaviour.

What is Lumina Emotion?

Developed by psychologists Dr. Stewart Desson and Julie Ensor, Lumina Emotion is grounded in the Big Five personality model and cutting-edge psychological research. It reveals the emotional landscape behind your personality by identifying three emotional personas:

  • Underlying Persona: Your natural emotional tendencies.
  • Everyday Persona: How you typically respond in daily life.
  • Overextended Persona: How you may behave under stress or pressure.

Lumina Emotion highlights how socially desirable traits can sometimes work against you, while less obvious traits can be sources of emotional strength. Fully compatible with Lumina Spark, it can be used independently or alongside it for deeper insight.

How Lumina Emotion Works:
  • Uncover and fine-tune your emotional landscape.
  • Choose your actions by managing your emotional responses.
  • Increase cooperation and reduce conflict within teams.
  • Develop an emotionally intelligent culture that supports organisational goals.
Key Benefits:
  • Understand the value of different emotional responses.
  • Adapt your behaviour to respond appropriately to changing situations.
  • Notice and understand your emotions more clearly.
  • Channel your behaviour towards your goals and values.

Lumina Emotion equips you with the agility to navigate emotions skillfully, enhancing your ability to think clearly and act meaningfully in any context.

When people understand their emotions, everything changes. Stronger relationships, better decisions, and more effective teams start here.

LUMINA – FAQs

1. What is Lumina and how is it different from other assessments?

Lumina is a next-generation psychometric tool that focuses on traits rather than labels, providing a more accurate, flexible, and human understanding of personality and behaviour.

2. What Lumina products do you offer?

We offer Lumina Spark, Lumina Leader, Lumina Team, Lumina Sales, and Lumina Emotion; each designed to support different aspects of individual and organisational development.

3. How does Lumina improve team performance?

By increasing self-awareness and understanding of others, Lumina helps teams communicate better, reduce conflict, and collaborate more effectively.

4. Is Lumina only for leadership teams?

No. Lumina can be used across all levels of an organisation, from individuals to teams to senior leaders.

5. How is the Lumina assessment delivered?

Participants complete an online questionnaire and receive a personalised “portrait,” which is then used in facilitated workshops and development sessions.

6. Can Lumina be integrated with other programmes?

Yes. Lumina is often combined with coaching, leadership development, or sales training to enhance overall impact.

7. Is Lumina scientifically validated?

Yes. Lumina is based on established psychological research, including the Big Five personality model and Jungian principles.

8. How long does a Lumina workshop take?

Workshops typically range from one day to multiple sessions, depending on the depth and objectives of the programme.