About the test

About the Test

The Entrepreneurial Profile Test (EPT) is a scientifically grounded behavioral assessment designed to help individuals gain a deeper understanding of their entrepreneurial tendencies, strengths, and potential areas for growth. While it does not determine whether you will become an entrepreneur, it offers valuable insights into how you approach challenges and opportunities, aiding in both personal and professional development.

Through years of behavioral science research and extensive fieldwork, the EPT identifies the key attributes that define different successful entrepreneurs: e.g.,  mindset, resilience, drive, and an ability to navigate uncertainty. This test, EPT, provides actionable insights to help you understand your strengths and areas for development, providing a clearer path toward personal and professional growth in the entrepreneurial world.

 

Clarifying the Purpose

The EPT focuses on entrepreneurial behavior, highlighting which of the six entrepreneurial archetypes most closely aligns with your responses. It helps you recognize your unique traits and motivational drivers, allowing you to understand how they influence your leadership style, decision-making, and interactions with others. Whether you’re already an entrepreneur or exploring the potential for entrepreneurship, the EPT provides clarity and actionable insights that are essential for growth.

 

What the Test Measures

EPT goes beyond personality traits by assessing your behavior and tendencies in various work contexts. It measures your response congruence and helps you identify patterns of behavior that can be further developed. This includes your:

  • Entrepreneurial Archetype: Understanding which of the six archetypes best represents you.
  • Behavioral Patterns: Identifying key strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Self-awareness: Gaining insight into how your actions align with your goals and values.

By providing this framework, EPT allows you to better understand yourself and adapt your behavior to different business and personal situations, ultimately improving both your entrepreneurial journey and collaboration with others.

Why the EPT Is Unique

The EPT stands apart from other personality assessments because it specifically addresses the behaviors and traits associated with entrepreneurial success. Grounded in years of behavioral science research, the test is tailored to individuals with an interest in entrepreneurship, focusing on the unique mindset, skills, and drive that define successful entrepreneurs.

Key features include:

  • Research-Based: Built on a solid foundation of behavioral science, ensuring accuracy and relevance.
  • Entrepreneurial Focus: Unlike traditional personality tests, which are general in scope, the EPT is designed to provide insights into the traits and behaviors that directly impact entrepreneurial success.
  • Actionable Insights: The EPT goes beyond just categorizing traits; it offers practical feedback and strategies that can be applied to real-world entrepreneurial challenges.
  • Customizable for Entrepreneurs: Specifically tailored to entrepreneurs, managers, and business leaders who want to better understand their strengths and areas for development.
  • Personalized Feedback: Accredited EPT coaches provide a detailed feedback session, helping you interpret the results and create a personalized development plan.
  • Self-awareness: Self-awareness is a critical element in entrepreneurship. It helps entrepreneurs make informed decisions, align their actions with their motivations, and navigate challenges effectively.

 

Ready to Begin?

The EPT offers an in-depth look into your entrepreneurial potential. Start today to gain valuable insights into your traits, identify areas for growth, and take the next step in your personal or professional development.

  Curious about your strengths and potentials – Start here

 

 

 

___________________________________________________Background_________________________________________________________________

 

The Own Business Fair, 2010 in Stockholm Sweden saw the launch of the – Entrepreneur Profile Test – a questionnaire that helps determine which of 6 entrepreneur profiles or archetypes as we have chosen to call them, you are closest to.

Entrepreneurs possess unique characteristics that enable them to succeed in their endeavors. Based on international research that identified five core profiles, entrepreneur and international consultant Stefan Lindström presented his findings in 2009 at the International Conference on Thinking, held at University Putra, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He later shared his work again in 2011 (ICOT)  at Queen’s University in Belfast. Lindström’s research also led to the introduction of the Workstyle Profile, now recognized as the 6th entrepreneurial archetype—the one that sets apart a distinct workstyle for entrepreneurs. The swede whose research found the 6th entrepreneurial archetype

After Lindstrom’s time in 2005 at Boston University – Entrepreneurial Institute, and around the Boston ecosystem, it was observations he made there and studies and research conducted with the Entrepreneurship Program at Boston University that was the starting point in his research. Later in the years of around 2007, Stefan came up with his first thoughts, and later on, the first embryo that there could be a sixth one. Previous international research had identified five different profiles.

It is this research – the 6th archetype The swede whose research found the 6th entrepreneurial archetype -(researchgate.net) that he had the privilege to launch at The International Conference on Thinking  in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in 2009.

Lindstrom, together with licensed psychologist Hans-Olle Frummerin, then over the years from 2008 to 2010 created the Entrepreneurial Profile Test – EPT based on all six archetypes.

And later on in 2018, Lindstrom talked about at TEDx.

This TEDx talk. What´s so special about entrepreneurs  is also about Lindstrom’s latest research within birth order and education levels among these 6 different EPT test – archetypes.

The talk is about the answer to the question: What makes an entrepreneur? based on studies and experience. Different types of entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and motivations, and with different impacts and results. Common characteristics of the different archetypes.

 

More research within Entreprenology   – very latest here below

 

 

How can you get the most out of the test ?

Full info about the whole development process on How To Use Your Result,  but first – how can you get the most out of your test results?

PROFESSIONAL FEEDBACK.

Like all other behavioral and personality tests, one should get professional feedback. To get the most out of your EPT results, contact us for individual and related to your answers, personal feedback, and/or a professional growth plan. Most welcome direct on E-mail, feedback@entrepreneurprofiletest.com

If you have not done the test while reading this please notice.  After you have received your results, – only you can see your results so save them with the PDF service that EPT test results provide, This is for your reflective development and improvements. You will also find an extra insight page to go to, this page is for those who want to get even more insight and improvement and to work for themselves instead with an EPT coach for external/professional feedback – therefore at the bottom of your Results & Personality profile, you can there click on or direct here – How to use your results

 

About the test follows:

Experience shows that those who have deposited time to reflect on their ability and to work have a deeper understanding of how they work. These also become more effective in their everyday lives. Of course, this is a challenge for many people. Some take help to move forward with this, while others try to do it themselves. Here we are happy to go in and help and support at, support@entrepreneurprofiletest.com

International statistics show that approx
15% do not try, or just ignores everything and goes on in old habits.                                                                                    70% try                                                                                                                                                                                                 15% take external help, and learns how to, and uses the content and makes a lasting positive change & improvements.

The EPT test – also tries to describe entrepreneurship and the differences among the all 6 archetypes but still that they have a lot in common.  – Entrepreneur´s as persons or individuals can be described in many ways.

One is – who undertakes and who succeeds in creating ventures. The entrepreneur or even intrapreneur succeeds in changing the direction of something, devises new approaches and creates new businesses and markets. The word entrepreneur can describe a person who is creative and driven and who succeeds in starting a business/company.
Entrepreneur´s can change directions on things, create, and design new approaches. Other ways to try to describe them are words like high autonomy, anti-conformity, and action-oriented, taking responsibility in combination with visionary thinking. see the dictionary and more.
Positive attitude towards work and devotion – well, well, the list can be made long.
In brief, this research has come up to that entrepreneurs can be distingu

© Stefan Lindström