Tim Barrett is the CEO and founder of Beacon Star Global and the Director of the Somerset Institute. He works with schools and universities to develop the skills young people need: knowing themselves, working well with others, and leading with character and judgement.
A 10 to 15 minute online assessment of how each person works and leads, on five dimensions. It is not a personality test, and there is no right or wrong result.
PRISM comes from Dr David Livermore’s research into cultural intelligence and global leadership. It gives a team a shared language for difference, and it is one practical way to put cultural intelligence to work.
Power: Flat
You prefer a collaborative and egalitarian approach, valuing equal input from all team members rather than deferring to authority.
Drag a dot to place yourself. The small dots are a real team of 27 leaders.
Your archetype is where you lead from most naturally. It is not a straitjacket. The skill is building the range to flex when a person or a situation calls for it.
The research behind it, sample profiles, and where participants start their assessment.
Prices for schools and universities. One seat is one person’s assessment and profile.
How a person works on the five dimensions: Power, Risk, Identity, Speed and Messaging. For anyone who works in a team, students included.
$49per seat
Everything in the Workstyle Profile, plus the person’s leadership archetype and guidance on when to flex. This is the PRISM® Leadership Profile, for staff and student leaders.
$69per seat
The online assessment meets privacy guidelines. No student email addresses or last names are recorded. Each student’s access code is given to them by their teacher through the school or university’s own system, not on the PRISM site.
Three ways to bring this into a school or university. Each one starts with a conversation.
Tim speaks to schools and conferences on why cultural intelligence and global leadership are skills for the future, and why capabilities grounded in strong content knowledge are essential in an AI world.
Enquire about a keynoteWorkshops for staff teams or student teams. Each person completes a PRISM profile, then Tim leads the group through what the results mean for how they work together. A three-hour session is $1,500 plus travel, for groups taking the PRISM Workstyle or Leadership assessment.
Enquire about facilitationStaff can train as PRISM Facilitators, licensed to buy and administer the PRISM Workstyle and Leadership assessments themselves. Accreditation is through Global TeamLEAD and costs $1,800 per staff member. That includes two courses, a one-hour online course and a two-hour online facilitator session with Tim Barrett, along with a facilitator manual and a year’s access to the facilitator materials and workbooks at staff level and student level. Accredited staff then buy assessments at facilitator pricing.
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Tim is the Director of the Somerset Institute at Somerset College on the Gold Coast, Australia. The work he brings to other schools and universities is based on extensive real-world classroom insights and experience.
Somerset College, Gold Coast, Australia.
Somerset College is a flagship school for PRISM®. The Somerset Institute is its centre for research, partnerships and global leadership.
Visit the Somerset Institute (opens in a new tab)The workbooks follow the Global TeamLEAD curriculum, with cultural intelligence woven through. Staff teams work through all four modules. Students take TeamWORK, TeamLEAD and TeamNORMS.
How you work on each of the five dimensions, and how your team works.
You leave with a common language for difference.
Your own leadership style, and the styles in your team.
You leave with a sense of when to flex, and what is missing.
Psychological safety and intellectual honesty, and why a team needs both.
You leave with a clearer picture of trust in your team.
Ways of working that everyone understands and can keep.
You leave with norms your team writes, tests and keeps.
Pages from the participant workbooks
CEO and Founder, Beacon Star Global
Director, Somerset Institute
Tim has worked with schools and organisations around the world to develop cultural intelligence, leadership capability and meaningful global partnerships.
A regular national and international speaker, his work has been featured by the Australian Council for Educational Research, The Educator, and leading education podcasts. The global learning programme he led was named best co-curricular programme at the Australian Education Awards in 2019 and 2020.
Tim on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)
Tell Tim about your school or university and what you want to build. He will reply within two business days.
Have a PRISM access code?
Start an assessment (opens in a new tab) Continue where you left off (opens in a new tab)Your email app should open with the message filled in. If it didn’t, copy the text below and send it to info@beacon-star.com.