Working Genius vs Other Assessments: Full Price Comparison (2026)
- Jonno White
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Last updated: June 2026
Working Genius is a team and individual assessment created by Patrick Lencioni of The Table Group that identifies six types of work energy, and it costs $25 per person to take. Compared with DiSC ($73.50 to $90), CliftonStrengths ($24.99 to $59.99), Kolbe A Index ($55), the Enneagram RHETI ($20) and MBTI ($50 to $100+), Working Genius sits in the lower third of the price range for leadership and team assessments as of June 2026. Only the Enneagram RHETI is cheaper at the individual assessment level.
Price matters, and so does what you actually get for it. This guide verifies the current price of each assessment from its official or primary source, compares what each includes at that price, and gives you a clear picture of the total cost when you run any of these tools with a real team. With global employee engagement at only 21% according to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2025 report, the question is not just what an assessment costs, but whether it moves the needle.
I compiled this comparison as a Certified Working Genius Facilitator who has run these sessions with schools, corporates, and nonprofits. I have a stake in Working Genius because I use it with clients, and I want to be transparent about that. The prices below come from official publisher pages verified in June 2026, not from memory or competitor sites. You can read more about how I work on my about page.
Quick-Reference Price Comparison Table
Assessment | Cost per Person | Completion Time | What It Measures |
Working Genius | $25 USD (retail) | 10-15 minutes | Work energy: where you thrive, are competent, or are drained |
Enneagram RHETI | $20 USD | 40 minutes | Core personality type, motivations and fears |
CliftonStrengths Top 5 | $24.99 USD | 30-45 minutes | Top 5 natural talent themes (of 34) |
CliftonStrengths 34 | $59.99 USD | 30-45 minutes | All 34 natural talent themes ranked |
Kolbe A Index | $55 USD | 20 minutes | Instinctive action modes (how you solve problems) |
MBTI | $50-$100+ USD | 30-45 minutes | Personality type across 4 dichotomies |
Everything DiSC (Wiley) | $73.50-$90 USD | 20-25 minutes | Behavioural style and communication preferences |
All prices are USD retail, individual assessment only, as verified June 2026 from official sources. Facilitation, team reports and debrief sessions are additional costs covered below.
What the $25 Working Genius Assessment Includes
Working Genius is a team productivity assessment that costs $25 per person for the standard retail licence, with volume pricing available at $22.50 per person for 100 to 499 licences. Each licence covers one individual assessment, and the result identifies two areas of Working Genius (where work energises you), two areas of Working Competency (where you can do the work but it does not fill you), and two areas of Working Frustration (where work drains you even if you perform it adequately).
The six types across the full working genius model are Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement and Tenacity. The assessment itself consists of 42 statements and takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete online, making it among the fastest of any mainstream team assessment. The individual report is concise, typically two to three pages, and designed to be immediately applied to team conversations rather than archived in a desk drawer.
A team report, which maps the collective genius profile of your group, is a separate purchase through the Working Genius platform and is typically accessed through a facilitator or directly via the workinggenius.com site. The raw assessment price does not include a team grid or a facilitated debrief.
CliftonStrengths: $24.99 to $59.99
CliftonStrengths, originally known as StrengthsFinder and developed by Gallup, is available at two price points directly from the Gallup store. The CliftonStrengths Top 5 report, which reveals your five most dominant talent themes out of 34 possible themes, costs $24.99. The CliftonStrengths 34 report, which ranks all 34 themes and is described by Gallup as offering the "greatest value," costs $59.99.
Both options are purchased at gallup.com and include access to the Gallup Access platform, which provides personalised insights, action items and team grid sharing. Gallup also notes that the chance two people share the same Top 5 themes in the same order is 1 in 33 million, which gives some indication of the specificity the full 34-theme ranking provides.
For teams, Gallup offers bulk and enterprise pricing with volume discounts, though individual enterprise rates are handled through direct Gallup sales conversations rather than a published price list.
At the Top 5 level, CliftonStrengths is priced almost identically to Working Genius at $24.99. The difference in what you receive is substantial, however. CliftonStrengths measures natural talent, the things you are naturally drawn to and good at, while Working Genius measures work energy, the activities that fill or drain you regardless of competence. For a deeper comparison of the two tools beyond pricing, the questions they answer are fundamentally different.
For a full individual vs individual comparison of Working Genius and other specific tools, the Working Genius vs Kolbe post covers Kolbe specifically, and the Working Genius vs Enneagram post covers the Enneagram comparison in depth.
Enneagram RHETI: $20 per Person
The Enneagram RHETI (Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator) from The Enneagram Institute is the lowest-priced official assessment in this comparison at $20 per person. This price came into effect in February 2024 following a price adjustment, and it applies to both the RHETI and the IVQ (Instinctual Variants Questionnaire). Volume discounts are available when purchasing more than one test in a single order.
The Enneagram measures nine personality types and explores the motivations, fears and defence mechanisms that drive behaviour. The RHETI takes approximately 40 minutes to complete, making it considerably longer than Working Genius. A full RHETI result includes scores for all nine Enneagram types, with a detailed narrative report for the top three. The test is taken online through the Enneagram Institute's testing platform.
At $20 per person, the Enneagram RHETI is the most affordable individual assessment in this group. It is worth noting, however, that the assessment's real value is often in facilitated application, and Enneagram coaches and practitioners typically charge at rates comparable to or higher than Working Genius facilitators. The $20 assessment is the entry point, not the whole cost.
Kolbe A Index: $55 per Person
The Kolbe A Index, developed by Kathy Kolbe and published by Kolbe Corp., costs $55 per person for a single assessment. The price is consistent across direct purchase from kolbe.com and most authorised resellers, with a small number of resellers offering discounted bundles. The Kolbe A Index does not have a low-cost starter tier analogous to CliftonStrengths Top 5.
Kolbe measures what it calls conation: the instinctive modes by which a person takes action when free to be themselves. The four action modes are Fact Finder, Follow Thru, Quick Start and Implementor. Where Working Genius asks what work fills or drains you, Kolbe asks how you instinctively approach any work you are given. The two frameworks measure different things and are genuinely complementary rather than competing.
At $55, Kolbe is roughly double the cost of Working Genius for an individual assessment. The report is denser and takes longer for a team to internalise. For a full breakdown of how the two tools compare in practical team settings, including which to use for hiring versus daily operations, the Working Genius vs Kolbe post covers this in detail.
Everything DiSC: $73.50 to $90 per Profile
Everything DiSC, published by Wiley and administered through an authorised partner network, is the most expensive individual assessment in this comparison at $73.50 to $90 per profile at standard pricing. Wiley does not sell DiSC assessments directly to individuals or organisations, all purchases go through authorised partners, and the partner sets the final price within the Wiley framework. Volume tiers typically start at 17 or more profiles and can reduce the per-person price meaningfully.
DiSC measures four primary behavioural styles (Dominant, Influential, Steady, Conscientious) and produces a detailed, typically 20-page report on how a person communicates, responds to conflict, prefers to be managed and operates in team settings. The completion time is approximately 20 to 25 minutes. The report is longer and richer than the Working Genius individual report, and teams often use DiSC alongside other assessments rather than as a standalone replacement.
At three to four times the individual cost of Working Genius, Everything DiSC carries a higher per-person price, but it also produces a longer report and a more detailed behavioural profile. The question of whether that depth is worth the price depends on what problem you are solving. If the goal is quickly redistributing work across a leadership team, the additional price of DiSC relative to Working Genius is harder to justify. If the goal is deep communication coaching or culture transformation, the richer profile may earn its price.
MBTI: $50 to $100+ per Person
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), published by The Myers-Briggs Company, costs $50 to $100 or more per person depending on report type and whether the assessment is administered through a certified practitioner or online directly. The online self-administered MBTI typically starts around $50, while practitioner-administered sessions with a full debrief and an enhanced report can reach $100 or more per person. The Myers-Briggs Company sells assessments through its website and through a large global network of certified practitioners.
MBTI measures personality type across four dichotomies (Introversion/Extraversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving), producing one of sixteen types. The assessment has been in use for decades and has significant name recognition, particularly in corporate and educational settings. Completion time is typically 30 to 45 minutes.
The MBTI is the oldest and most widely recognised tool in this group, but it is also the one whose pricing structure is most variable. A $50 online MBTI and a $100 practitioner-delivered MBTI are meaningfully different experiences. For a team application, the facilitator or consultant fee is typically the largest cost component, making the raw assessment price a smaller share of the total than for Working Genius.
The Real Cost Beyond the Per-Person Assessment Price
The figures in the comparison table represent what each person pays to take the assessment alone. In practice, when a leadership team uses any of these tools, the assessment cost is often the smallest line item.
A facilitated Working Genius session for a team of eight people costs $200 USD in raw assessment fees (eight people at $25 each). The facilitation of that session, delivered by a Certified Working Genius Facilitator for a half-day or full-day offsite, typically costs between $3,500 and $8,000 AUD depending on the facilitator, the format and the location. The same ratio applies to DiSC, CliftonStrengths and Kolbe: the facilitation investment typically exceeds the assessment cost by a factor of ten to thirty.
This matters because comparing assessment prices in isolation can create a misleading picture. A team that pays $90 per person for Everything DiSC but then receives a deep, well-facilitated debrief is likely to get more from their investment than a team that pays $25 per person for Working Genius and then does nothing structured with the results.
With U.S. training expenditures reaching $102.8 billion in 2025 according to the Training Industry Report, representing an average of $874 per learner, the raw cost of a $25 or $55 assessment is genuinely a small fraction of the total investment most organisations make in a learning initiative. The question worth asking is not "which assessment is cheapest?" but "which assessment will my team actually use?"
For a detailed breakdown of Working Genius facilitation costs specifically, including what workshop formats look like and how pricing varies by team size and format, the workshop cost breakdown for Australia and New Zealand covers this in detail.
The Working Genius Advantage at Scale
Working Genius becomes particularly cost-effective when run across a large organisation. At $22.50 per person for 100 to 499 licences, a school of 120 staff would pay $2,700 USD for the assessments themselves, less than the cost of a single day of facilitation. No other assessment in this comparison offers an equivalent combination of low per-person cost, short completion time and direct operability in team settings.
The 10 to 15 minute completion time also matters at scale. Rolling out CliftonStrengths or MBTI across 100 people requires scheduling blocks of 30 to 45 minutes per person and typically generating long reports that a facilitator then needs to interpret. Working Genius generates reports that most people can read and understand without specialist help, which reduces the facilitation investment required.
Allison Howell, MS, Vice President of Market Innovation at Hogan Assessments, noted in January 2025 that "assessment-based coaching is especially important for leaders because of the increased complexity of leading teams." The practical implication is that any assessment that gets adopted and used by a leadership team delivers more value than a more expensive assessment that sits unread. Working Genius's short completion time and accessible reporting style contribute to its adoption rate in a way that price alone does not capture.
A Comparison Scenario: Team of Eight
To make the pricing concrete, here is what each assessment would cost in raw licences for a leadership team of eight people, in USD.
Working Genius: $200 (8 x $25). Enneagram RHETI: $160 (8 x $20). CliftonStrengths Top 5: $199.92 (8 x $24.99). CliftonStrengths 34: $479.92 (8 x $59.99). Kolbe A Index: $440 (8 x $55). Everything DiSC: $588 to $720 (8 x $73.50 to $90). MBTI: $400 to $800+ (8 x $50 to $100+).
For a team of eight, Working Genius and CliftonStrengths Top 5 are almost identical in raw assessment cost, at approximately $200 each. Every other option costs at least twice as much at the individual assessment level, and Everything DiSC costs three to four times as much. All of these figures are before facilitation.
Which Assessment Delivers the Best Value
Value is not the same as price. The cheapest assessment that your team reads once and forgets delivers less value than a more expensive one that reshapes how they work together for the next three years.
Working Genius delivers best value for teams that need fast, practical traction. The combination of low per-person cost, 10 to 15 minute completion time, simple categories and immediately applicable language gives it the highest return-to-friction ratio of any assessment in this group. Teams can go from assessment to changed behaviour in a single debrief session.
CliftonStrengths at $59.99 (the 34-theme version) delivers best value for individuals who want a deep personal strengths profile for ongoing professional development. The $24.99 Top 5 version is the lowest-cost entry point for strengths-based work and is comparable to Working Genius in price.
Kolbe at $55 delivers best value in hiring and role-design contexts, where understanding how someone instinctively operates matters more than daily team communication. It is not the cheapest, but it is the most predictive for structural decisions.
The Enneagram RHETI at $20 delivers best value for personal development and coaching contexts where understanding inner motivation and core fears is the goal. It is the cheapest in this group at the individual assessment level, and the depth it provides on personality dynamics is unmatched. Its weakness is that the language and concepts take longer to become conversational in a team setting.
MBTI and Everything DiSC are the most expensive in this group and typically make more sense in organisations that have already invested in practitioner infrastructure, such as a corporate HR team with certified MBTI or DiSC practitioners, or where the tool is embedded in an existing leadership development programme.
How to Decide Which Assessment Your Team Actually Needs
The right assessment depends on the problem you are solving, not on price alone. Three questions make the decision clearer.
The first question is how fast you need results. If your team is burning out or misaligned right now and you need to act this month, Working Genius is the fastest path from assessment to changed behaviour. It can be debriefed in a 90-minute session and generates a shared language your team will use within days.
The second question is what kind of insight you actually need. If you need to understand communication styles and behavioural preferences, DiSC gives you the richest profile. If you need to understand natural talent and where energy sits, CliftonStrengths gives you the most comprehensive strengths inventory. If you need to understand instinctive problem-solving modes for hiring or role design, Kolbe is the more precise tool. If you need to understand core personality type and inner motivation, the Enneagram provides a depth that others do not.
The third question is whether you have a certified practitioner available, or whether you need the assessment to work without one. Working Genius is the only tool in this group that is genuinely designed for teams to debrief without a certified facilitator, though a facilitator adds significant value.
For details on whether Working Genius is worth the investment for your leadership team, that post goes into the ROI question in detail.
I have run Working Genius sessions with leadership teams across schools, corporates and nonprofits, and the most common thing I hear after a debrief is that the framework immediately made sense in a way that previous assessments did not. That is partly a function of the tool and partly a function of facilitation. If you would like to run a Working Genius session with your team and want to know whether it is the right fit for your situation, reach out at jonno@consultclarity.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a free version of Working Genius?
No official free version of Working Genius exists as of June 2026. The standard individual assessment costs $25 per person, and while some facilitators occasionally offer complimentary or discounted assessments as part of a promotional engagement, The Table Group does not publish a free tier. Some third-party sites claim to offer free Working Genius alternatives, but these are not the official Lencioni assessment and do not produce the same six-type framework or report.
Can I use Working Genius without a certified facilitator?
Yes. Working Genius is designed so that a team can take the assessments and work through the results independently using the book, The 6 Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni, and the team application materials available on workinggenius.com. The individual assessments cost $25 each regardless of whether a facilitator is involved. A certified facilitator brings deeper facilitation skill, structured debrief formats and the ability to handle team dynamics that arise during the session, but the assessment itself is accessible without one. For guidance on how to run a Working Genius workshop, that post walks through the full process step by step.
Is Working Genius cheaper for large teams?
Yes. The retail price of $25 per person applies to individual purchases and orders up to 99 licences. For 100 to 499 licences, the price drops to $22.50 per person. Pricing for 500 or more licences is available through The Table Group directly. Most other assessments in this comparison also offer volume pricing, so the relative price advantage of Working Genius at scale is modest, though its short completion time and accessible reports become a more significant advantage at larger numbers.
How does Working Genius compare to DiSC for a team on a budget?
At $25 per person, Working Genius costs roughly one third of the Everything DiSC per-person price of $73.50 to $90. For a team of ten, that is $250 versus $735 to $900 in assessment costs before facilitation. For budget-constrained organisations such as schools, nonprofits and small businesses, this difference is material. The Working Genius framework also requires less facilitation time to deliver results, which can reduce the overall cost of the learning initiative.
Can I combine Working Genius with another assessment?
Yes, and many leadership teams do. Working Genius and DiSC are genuinely complementary: DiSC tells you how someone communicates, Working Genius tells you what work energises them. Working Genius and CliftonStrengths serve different purposes too: strengths describe what you are naturally talented at, genius describes where the work fills you. The most common combination in practice is Working Genius for team design and role clarity, followed by CliftonStrengths or DiSC for deeper personal development or communication coaching.
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