RESEARCH
{TQ} | TEAM INTELLIGENCE:
The Operating System to Transform Individual Brilliance into Breakthrough Performance
{TQ} | Team Intelligence is an assessment that helps campus leadership teams measure and develop their collective intelligence.
Built at the intersection of Perceptual (PQ), Intellectual (IQ), and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), TQ reveals how well teams leverage diverse thinking styles, communicate, and execute together. It provides a shared language that improves team dynamics, decision-making, and institutional outcomes.
The Team Intelligence Gap
Why High-IQ Leaders Produce Low-TQ Results
The Team Intelligence Gap" by Dr. Joe Hill addresses why high-performing leadership teams underperform—not from lack of talent, but from fragmented intelligence.
It introduces the TQ Model (IQ × EQ × PQ), showing how cognitive, emotional, and positional intelligence must integrate for team effectiveness. The framework includes seven core competencies, five lead measures, and a four-stage development pathway with diagnostic tools to advance institutional performance and achieve sustainable excellence..
Breaking the Middle Management Crisis
A Higher Performance Executive Brief
This whitepaper reveals how neglecting middle managers—deans, principals, and directors—creates hidden costs and weakens educational performance. Most systems train executives but ignore the "invisible middle," where strategy fails.




