RESEARCH

 {TQ} | TEAM INTELLIGENCE:

The Operating System to Transform individual Brilliance into Breakthrough Performance

{TQ} | Team Intelligence is a groundbreaking assessment that helps campus leadership teams unlock their full potential by measuring and developing their collective intelligence—not just individual strengths. Built at the intersection of Perceptual (PQ), Intellectual (IQ), and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), TQ reveals how well teams leverage diverse thinking styles, communicate effectively, and execute with synergy.



Unlike traditional tools that focus on self-awareness, TQ provides a practical, shared language that improves team dynamics, decision-making, and institutional outcomes in today’s complex educational landscape.

The Team Intelligence Gap

Why High-IQ Leadet Produce Low-TQ Results

“The Team Intelligence Gap” by Dr. Joe Hill presents a comprehensive leadership framework that addresses the underlying causes of organizational underperformance. It emphasizes that high-IQ leadership teams often fall short not due to a lack of talent, but because of fragmented intelligence.

The publication introduces the TQ Model (IQ × EQ × PQ), illustrating how cognitive, emotional, and positional intelligence must be integrated to maximize team effectiveness. It further outlines seven core leadership competencies, five lead measures, and a four-stage development pathway, supported by case studies and diagnostic tools. This framework provides a structured approach for advancing institutional performance and achieving sustainable organizational excellence.

Breaking the Middle Management Crisis

 A Higher Performance Executive Brief

This whitepaper exposes how ineffective development of middle managers—deans, principals, and directors—creates hidden costs and weakens organizational performance in both higher education and K–12 institutions. It explains how most systems train top executives but neglect the “invisible middle,” where strategy often dies due to role confusion, fragmented collaboration, and misaligned leadership strengths.



The paper introduces Team Intelligence (TQ) — a research-based framework combining IQ (Cognitive Capability), EQ (Emotional Coherence), and PQ (Perceptual Alignment) — to rebuild collective performance. It shows data-driven results where schools and universities that adopted TQ achieved major gains in retention, teacher engagement, and student outcomes.