DECISION PROFILE MAPPING
See how decisions are actually being made
30%
reduction in decision errors when teams leverage cognitively diverse thinking
Dr Juliet Bourke, Which Two Heads Are Better Than One?
20%
increase in innovation from cognitively balanced decision groups
Dr Juliet Bourke, Which Two Heads Are Better Than One?
7000+
people have completed Wizer Decision Profiles across sectors
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WHAT IS DECISION PROFILE MAPPING?
A map of how your organisation thinks
Every person completes a short Decision Profile assessment. Wizer then maps the full mix of seven Decision Power Profiles across your team or organisation — building what we call your decision DNA.
Unlike personality tests, which focus on character traits, Decision Profile Mapping focuses on decision behaviour: how people frame problems, what evidence they weight, how they engage with risk, and what they do with competing information.
Once mapped, you can see the patterns clearly — not just for individual teams, but across the whole organisation simultaneously.
EXAMPLE: DECISION MAP AT A GLANCE
STRONG
Achiever
Explorer
MISSING
Guardian
Deliverer
PRESENT
Analyzer
Collaborator
UNDERWEIGHT
Visionary
This example shows a common pattern: execution-focused profiles dominate senior levels, while challenge and risk profiles are absent — leaving strategic decisions with no internal check.
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Where decision strength clusters
Understand which thinking styles dominate at which levels — and whether that mix serves the decisions your organisation faces.
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Where the gaps and blind spots sit
Identify which profiles are structurally absent from key decision forums — before those absences cause expensive mistakes.
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Which voices are routinely missing
Surface the people in your organisation who think differently and are well-suited to certain decisions — but who were never asked.
THE SEVEN DECISION POWER PROFILES
Every person has a primary decision style
Decision Profiles are not a personality label. They describe how someone engages with decisions — what they prioritise, what they push for, and what they instinctively protect. Every profile is a strength. Every gap is a risk.
THE RESEARCH
Decision science is clear on cognitive diversity
When decision groups are cognitively homogeneous — when the same thinking styles dominate the room — errors compound, blind spots widen, and innovation stalls. This isn't a leadership failure. It's a structural one.
Dr Juliet Bourke's landmark research on cognitive diversity quantifies the impact of building decision groups with the right mix of thinking styles. The data shows that balance is not a cultural nice-to-have — it measurably changes outcomes.
Dr Juliet Bourke is a former partner at Deloitte, an adjunct professor at UNSW Business School, and one of Australia's leading researchers on inclusive decision-making. Her research is the foundation on which Wizer's Decision Profile methodology is built.
RECOMMENDED READING
Which Two Heads Are Better Than One? — Dr Juliet Bourke's landmark study on cognitive diversity and decision quality. Previously sold by the AICD for $50, now available exclusively through Wizer for $24.99 + postage.
30%
Fewer decision errors
Teams with cognitively diverse thinking styles make 30% fewer decision errors.
20%
More Innovation
Cognitively balanced groups generate meaningfully more breakthrough ideas than homogeneous ones.
+40%
Hidden decision
contributors
Found 40-60% of people are being recommended for a decision for the first time
WHAT ORGANISATIONS DISCOVER
The patterns are consistent across sectors
When organisations map their decision DNA for the first time, they find the same structural patterns — regardless of industry, size, or maturity. The specifics differ. The problems underneath rarely do.
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Concentration at the top
Senior leaders typically cluster in one or two profiles — most often Achiever and Explorer. This is natural. It also means the profiles most likely to challenge, test, or reframe decisions are absent from the rooms where it matters most.
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Hidden talent, surfaced
Mapping almost always reveals people within the organisation who think in ways it urgently needs — and who have never been considered for certain roles or decisions because their profile was invisible to the people designing those groups.
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Untapped diversity in the middle
The richest spread of decision styles almost always sits in junior and mid-level roles.
These people hold the perspectives most needed for complex decisions — and are routinely excluded from the conversations where those decisions get made.
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A decision system, not a one-off review
Over 90% of clients begin with Decision Profile Mapping because it creates the foundation — a living asset that can be used to design every decision panel across the organisation, adjusted over time as people and priorities shift.
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Gaps specific to decision type
Strategy panels with no Guardians. Change programs with no Explorers or Collaborators. Risk committees with strong execution profiles but no Analyzers. The gaps are predictable once you can see them — and preventable once you have a map.
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Insight that changes how people work
When individuals see their own Decision Profile alongside their team's map, the dynamic in meetings shifts. People start to understand their instincts — and to value the instincts of colleagues who previously seemed obstructive or unfocused.
BOARD DECISION MAPPING
A different kind of board review
Most board reviews focus on structure, composition, and compliance. Board Decision Mapping focuses on something different: how decisions are actually framed, challenged, and resolved at board level — particularly under pressure.
Using decision-role analysis and cognitive diversity research, we map how a board's collective thinking shows up in practice. This is not an assessment of performance or intent. It examines decision architecture: the conditions under which board decisions are made.
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Which decision roles dominate discussions — and which are structurally absent or overridden
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Why certain risks fail to escalate or interrupt momentum
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How to strengthen decision quality without relying on individual courage
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The risks that governance reviews, board evaluations, and regulatory remediation typically miss
"Why do capable boards make avoidable poor decisions?"
The answer is rarely about intent or information. It's about who shapes the framing — and whose challenge reaches the table.
Board Decision Mapping surfaces that architecture. It's used alongside governance reviews, board evaluations, and regulatory remediation to identify what those processes miss.
HOW IT WORKS
Three steps to your organisation's decision map
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Profile Your People
Each person completes a short Decision Profile assessment. Individual profiles are free and take around ten minutes.
See your decision DNA
Wizer maps the full mix of profiles across your teams and organisation — surfacing patterns, gaps, and concentrations that were previously invisible.
Design better decision rooms
Use live recommendations to build the right mix of thinking into every decision that matters — and track the strength of those panels over time.
GETTING STARTED
Start with three free profiles
We'll create a private space for your organisation, give you five free Decision Profiles, and show you your first team decision map — with strengths, gaps, and blind spots. No credit card required to start.
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