Core Factors ^®

Who We Are

Core Factors is a people-development platform for practitioners. Executive coaches, leadership coaches, OD consultants, team facilitators, HR and L&D professionals, and career practitioners use Core Factors to administer assessments, deliver a professional participant experience, reinforce development between sessions, and document outcomes through participant feedback and reporting.

The platform spans five assessment families: psychological type, emotional intelligence, career, social dynamics, and temperament. Practitioners access everything through a single Pro Account, and every participant receives the same Participant Hub experience regardless of which assessment they completed.

What We Believe

The session is the beginning, not the product. A debrief that doesn’t connect to something ongoing is an expensive conversation. Insight without follow-through is self-awareness with an expiration date. The practitioners who create lasting change are not the ones who deliver the best reports. They are the ones who build the conditions for development to continue after the room clears.

Practitioners deserve to look as good as the work they do. The quality of your tools reflects on you. When a client opens a dated interface, navigates a clunky report, or receives a PDF with no clear next step, that becomes your problem. Practitioners who are serious about the work should have a platform that communicates that seriousness before they say a word.

Proof matters. Practitioners have been operating on faith for too long. The work is real. The impact is real. But without a way to capture feedback, document outcomes, and show that development is landing, the value of the work is invisible. Invisible value does not build practices, justify budgets, or generate referrals.

Portable People Skills®

Portable People Skills is the through-line across everything Core Factors builds. It is the idea that understanding how people think, communicate, lead, and make decisions is not a one-time insight. It is a set of skills that transfer across challenges, scale with responsibility, and remain relevant in a fast-changing world.

When a leader learns to recognize how their type pattern shapes their decision-making, that skill is portable. When a team builds shared language for how they interact under pressure, that language is portable. When a career practitioner helps a client understand not just what interests them but what drains them, that clarity is portable.

Every Core Factors assessment is designed to build portable people skills: understanding that moves with the person, not understanding that stays locked in a report.

Kris Kiler

Founder and President

Kris Kiler Founder and President

Kris Kiler has spent more than 30 years in the assessment and people-development industry. He began at Temperament Research Institute in 1995, where he directed operations, managed training delivery, and built the organization’s content and publishing infrastructure.

He went on to found Unite Media Group, where he served as President and CEO for six years. Under Unite Media Group, he created and grew three brands: 16types.com, one of the original online resources for psychological type; Telos Publications, which published more than 27 professional development books and training resources for management consultants; and Interstrength Associates, which delivered management training and consulting services. He designed and launched an online assessment management system for practitioners, built an e-commerce platform for training materials, and led the development of a training curriculum in collaboration with professional trainers and consultants.

He founded Core Factors to build what he saw the industry still lacked: a unified platform where practitioners could administer assessments across multiple frameworks, deliver a professional participant experience, and document that their work was landing. He functions as both platform architect and hands-on SME across the assessment suite, shaping report design, participant experience, and how each assessment translates into practitioner-led development work. He conceived the Career Signals assessment and its four-zone motivational skills matrix, and collaborates directly with Mark Majors, Roger Pearman and Scott Campbell on their respective assessments and supporting products.

He is a certified Job and Career Transition Coach and experienced instructional designer.

Contact Kris at kris@corefactors.com or connect on LinkedIn.