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“I believe IDAK’s understanding and assessment of Natural Talents is a pioneering, much needed breakthrough approach to more realistically assessing human resource competencies. It is the best system I have seen, especially with its respect to its comprehensiveness, versatility and integration with other models of personal and organizational development.”

Dr. Michael O.
Organizational Development Consultant and Assessment Research Specialist
Minnesota

“I have used the IDAK Career match every semester in my Introduction to Ministry class for the past eight years. Students have consistently discovered clearer insights into their innate abilities as a result of the IDAK. Some have redirected their majors and career choices as a result of the IDAK feedback. Combined with other forms of evaluation and self reflection the IDAK has been an invaluable tool for career assessment in my Introduction to Ministry class.”

Douglas Tilstra, Ph.D.
Professor of Church Leadership
School of Religion

“I and my team have been so impacted by the IDAK Natural Talents Assessment that we gave every pastor an opportunity to take the IDAK assessment and invited John Bradley to be the plenary speaker at our annual district conference. Since then, many seasoned pastors have testified that leaning into their natural talents and applying John’s key principles has been transformational, both in ministry and everyday life.”

Jeff Norris
District Superintendent of the Western PA District of the C&MA

“IDAK has opened the window for students to discover for themselves. Once they have discovered their God-given strengths, their passion for service and work expands. For the first time they understand the difference between aptitudes and skills. Their educational framework takes on new life with a sense of fulfillment and focus! The IDAK systems are premiere in giving the student the best understanding of one’s self in the context of Higher Education! It is a must for every college, university and seminary!”

Mark T. O’Farrell
President
Trinity College of Florida

“George Fox College has had an excellent relationship with IDAK Group, Inc. for several years. IDAK was strategic in consulting George Fox College regarding the development of a career program. This organization, in my observation. operates with the highest level of integrity and that trust relationship is invaluable.”

Bonnie Jerke, Career Services Director
George Fox College
Newberg, Oregon

“In our day, opportunities for service face us in bewildering numbers, complexity, and variety. Discover-ing what a person should do, where a person `fits’ can be a monumental task. Such `tools’ as IDAK Career Match are invaluable. I recommend it highly.”

Norman Cook, D.D.
Director, Missions Department
Multnomah School of the Bible
Portland, Oregon

“I have been associated with IDAK for over ten years. IDAK has been the most effective tool for enabling a person to understand that God created them on purpose and equipped them to achieve that purpose. The training and on-going support from the IDAK Group have been excellent. We have used IDAK in assessments with new ministry personnel, entering seminary students, and with ministry leaders looking to evaluate their ministry roles.”

Gary Floyd
Mission Ministries Strategist
Northwest Baptist Convention

“I have found the IDAK results to be the best of any system I know in providing students natural talent indices and actual ministry job titles and references to ministry organizations. As a psychologist, pastor and educator, I believe this instrument is invaluable in the training of future ministry leaders.”

Norman Thiesen, Ph.D.
Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Western Seminary
Portland, Oregon

“IDAK Career Match is the best available tool covering three dimensions: talents, values, and interests.”

Robert Larzelere, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma

“The work of IDAK has been very well received and is highly regarded on the campus.”

Robert W. Wiggins
Director, Admissions and Records
Western Seminary
Portland, Oregon

“There are many admirable qualities that the IDAK Career match possesses. It is one of the few instruments that not only identifies natural talents but also gives very clear career guidance as to environments and duties where those talents could be practiced. It also provides processes as to how to make career switches if that is necessary. Also its training for its counselor/consultants provides high value added skills for the IDAK Career match consultant.”
Quoted from Preparing for Ministry, Kregel Books, chapter 17 written by

Dr. Phillip Sell
Director Guided /Field Education
Trinity Seminary
Illinois

“By considering these various (IDAK) talents and tailoring the overall educational experience we broaden the opportunity for a greater number of students to gain the cultivating benefits of a college education and ultimately to reach their highest potential. This is higher education at its best.”

Dr. David McCarthy
Toccoa Falls College
Georgia.
(Quoted from Doctoral Dissertation comparing IDAK’s talents with freshman satisfaction, academic achievement, and retention at a small private college.)

“There does seem to be hemispheric differentiation in brain functioning providing therefore a genetic predisposition to certain aptitudes. This information gives new credibility to the (IDAK) natural talent theory in that it demonstrates the interrelationships between certain measurable inherent cerebral processes and talent functioning.”

Dr. David Harrell
Oxford Graduate School
(Quoted from doctoral dissertation comparing IDAK Career Match with Left and Right Brain Hemispheric Dominance.)

“The (IDAK) Career Match is meant to help mid-life career changers who are burned out in their present careers and are seeking a new vocation that is more compatible with their work interests, aptitudes, and priorities. It is designed to assist persons reentering the labor market after an extended absence. It is for people who do not want to or cannot go back into their previous occupations or professions, but are not sure what they want to do for a new one.”

Dr. Arvid Leighton
Rosemead School of Psychology
(Quoted from Doctoral Dissertation Development of the manual for IDAK Career Match.)

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