“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

“IDAK has given us a wonderful tool to understand our workers and to make better personnel decisions. The common nomenclature and concise definitions help us to communicate accurately as leaders. Not only has it provided us with a marvelous tool, it has provided a framework for training new leaders. We are very grateful for the partnership we enjoy with the IDAK Group.”

Carl McGarvey
Director of Candidate Development national office of the Christian and Missionary Alliance

“The IDAK career services work especially well for those who are switching careers, such as from a marketplace career to ministry. Everyone who goes through the IDAK training speaks very highly of the outcome.”

Nelson Malwitz
Founder, Finishers Project

“I have served as a personnel (HR) director for over 14 years. I find myself continually in a career counseling situation. The training that I have in the IDAK system has been tremendously helpful. I use it in immediate counsel, on going guidance, staff assessments, placement, team building and outplacement. I have worked with other systems but none have given me as solid and thorough information as did the IDAK Career match.”

Jim Hamilton
NAIM, Canada

“Knowing the power of the IDAK assessment materials, I have used this material with employees, homemakers, educators, professionals and Christian leaders across North America.”

Bruce McNicol
President Leadership Catalyst
Arizona

“The most theologically sound, practically useful approach I know of to discover your God-given talents. It is a tool for gaining valuable insight into God’s direction for your life and service. We use it to assist those entering vocational Christian ministry or seeking new service opportunities.”

Donald A. Wiggins, D. Min.
District Superintendent
(Former Vice President)
The Christian and Missionary Alliance

“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

“IDAK Career Match is the first assessment tool that I’ve seen which affirms a person’s total talents, gifts, and personality package. I am overwhelmingly pleased with IDAK Career Match and heartily encourage its use, especially with those who are frustrated with the stereotypes which so often paralyze us. I specially want to encourage its use for those who have a background in music and the arts.”

Byron Spradlin, Director
Artists in Christian Testimony
Nashville, Tennessee

“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

“I have done church consulting over the years and considerable personal counseling is a by-product of my speaking ministry. Not only have the IDAK materials and John’s consulting greatly assisted me personally, but an unbelievable number of referrals that I have sent him. It’s amazing how many people I’ve encountered who need to understand how God has gifted them.”

Jay Carty
Author
Santa Barbara, California

“Within a short time John Bradley’s program gave me renewed confidence that, indeed, there was life after professional football. I was reassured by the knowledge that God had gifted me for more than just playing quarterback, encouraged by the discovery of unrecognized strengths and expectant as a new direction began to unfold.”

Jim Zorn
Former NFL Quarterback
Seattle Seahawks

“When it was suggested that I go through the IDAK process of analyzing my aptitudes, I was rather skeptical. At the time I was at a crossroads in my life, unsure which direction I should take. But it didn’t take much exposure to John Bradley’s thinking and style to change my attitude. As a result of the assessment process, I felt better equipped to eliminate some options and to pursue others with a sense of confidence. The ministry choice I have made matches who I am and what I do best better than any other ministry I’ve ever been involved in.”

Chuck Kelley
President
Bridge Builders International

“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

“I highly recommend IDAK Career Match and the IDAK Group, Inc. I have been using their materials now for nine years. I have found their materials to be extremely helpful in the process of people finding their capacities for excellence and how to employ them in their service for the Lord. Using the materials that IDAK has produced has made a real difference in the lives of many members of Wycliffe Bible Translators.”

Tom Lyman
Career and Organizational Consultant
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Dallas, Texas

“Just received an encouraging email from a young former client who, along with his wife and two babies, currently lives in Southern California.  My wife and I helped him start a new church here in Indiana and it remains successful to this day.  About a year and a half ago, he approached me about his feeling unfulfilled even though the church start up was successful and he had a bright future with it.  I suggested an IDAK assessment and he agreed.  it revealed that although he had a very strong ministry component to his nature, there also appeared to be an equally strong business, entrepreneurial, and creative talent pool that was not being actualized in a pure church ministry environment as a pastor.  Based upon my assessment, he and his wife sold their house here in Indiana and moved to Southern California so he could obtain his master’s degree through Mosaic as an interim step to facilitate his new found career ‘vision’.  Fast forward to 2010:  he’s been accepted at three different UK universities for a Ph.D. program, is writing and has a business concept that includes using media and creative networking to further opportunities.  He is also well on his way to producing a movie!  This guy is only 29!

The note he sent me today thanked me for kick-starting his journey from potentially remaining a frustrated small-town Indiana pastor to embracing all that God has in store for him by utilizing the talents that he came to realize via IDAK.

Very cool huh?”

James C. S., Indiana