The AOC X-Ray™ Diagnostic Experience

See the pattern behind what keeps repeating.

The AOC family of X-Rays™ gives leaders, founders, high-performing professionals, and business partners a structured way to recognize the patterns shaping how they lead, decide, communicate, and operate, especially when those patterns are difficult to see from inside the situation.
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Leadership X-Ray
How you lead
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Alignment 
X-Ray
How you operate
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Partnership 
X-Ray
How partners operate together
Every AOC X-Ray is personally reviewed by Geoffrey before your private results and interpretation session.
Recognition

The Visible Problem Is Not Always the Real Problem.

You do not need to be struggling for something to be misaligned.
Successful people can continue producing results while certain patterns quietly require more time, energy, attention, friction, or leadership capacity than the situation should demand.
Leadership X-RAY
Things get done, but under pressure you may carry more than you intended, push harder than necessary, over-explain, become less approachable, or receive less ownership back from the team.
Alignment X-Ray
You are capable and productive, but decisions may reopen, momentum may stall, certainty may become expensive, or execution may require more mental energy than the situation calls for.
Partnership X-Ray
The relationship may function well in many areas while conversations about growth, money, risk, trust, roles, authority, or decision-making repeatedly create friction.
A Quiet Observation

More effort does not resolve a pattern you have not yet identified.


What looks like a communication problem may actually be an ownership problem.
What looks like indecision may reflect a pattern that appears when certainty decreases.
What looks like partner disagreement may reflect two different definitions of responsible growth, acceptable risk, or decision authority.
The AOC Framework™

Seven Interconnected Layers Beneath the Outcome

The Alignment Operating Core (AOC) Framework™ examines visible outcomes through seven interconnected layers:
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Identity
02

Values
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Beliefs
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Habits
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Behaviors
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Actions
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Outcomes
What appears at the outcome level often begins several layers earlier.
IN THEIR WORDS

What leaders noticed after their X-Ray.

A few reflections from people who examined their own patterns through the AOC X-Ray.

“Taking the X-Ray was a complete game changer. The insights we gained were absolutely priceless, giving my partner and I the clarity we needed to bridge our communication gaps.”
Kellen Barten

“For the first time, I could see how my identity affects the way I think, what I feel under pressure, and how I make decisions when it really matters.”
Kesia Duarte

“It clarified that we were not disagreeing about the opportunity. We were using different thresholds for risk.”
Andrew Levine

Founders. Executives. Partners. Across retail, SaaS, professional services, and family enterprise.
Every AOC X-Ray is personally reviewed by Geoffrey before your private results and interpretation session.
Choose Your X-Ray

Three X-Rays. Three Places Alignment Can Shift.

Each diagnostic examines a different dimension of how you lead, operate, and relate.
I  ·  Leadership

For founders, executives, senior leaders & managers

AOC Leadership X-Ray™

See what changes when pressure rises.
Identifies how strengths, communication, standards, decision-making, behavior, and ownership patterns can shift under pressure.
A few questions it may invite
What changes in my leadership when pressure rises?
Where is ownership quietly flowing back to me?
Which strength becomes expensive when overused?
Explore Leadership  →
II  ·  Alignment

For high performers navigating internal friction

AOC Alignment X-Ray™

See what your success may be concealing.
Designed for high-performing professionals, founders, and executives who want to examine internal friction around decisions, execution, certainty, momentum, or direction.
A few questions it may invite
Which decisions keep reopening?
Where am I slowing myself down?
What repeatedly consumes energy despite my best efforts?
What deserves my attention first?
Explore Alignment  →
III  ·  Partnership

For co-founders, partners & executive pairs

AOC Partnership X-Ray™

See where the partnership is aligned and where it needs greater clarity.
Designed for co-founders, business partners, executive pairs, and closely connected leadership relationships.
A few questions it may invite
Where are we genuinely aligned?
Which differences are becoming structural friction?
Where do growth, trust, risk, money, or decision-making create repeated tension?
Where are business decisions becoming trust tests?
Explore Partnership  →
When you are ready, choose the path that best fits where you are now.
Choose Your X-Ray
INSIDE YOUR AOC X-RAY

See What Your X-Ray Reveals

Three personalized diagnostics designed to surface patterns, pressures, and points of friction that standard assessments often miss.
Exhibit 01 · Leadership
Leadership Report Preview
Leadership X-Ray

See the patterns shaping how you lead

Personalized patterns, Alignment Score and Gap, seven-layer findings, pressure-response tendencies, areas of friction, possible business impact, and themes worth examining more closely.
Exhibit 02 · Alignment
Alignment Report Preview
Alignment X-Ray

See where intention and execution diverge

Alignment Score and Gap, archetype, seven AOC layers, primary constraint, recurring execution patterns, areas of cost, and the issues most worth your attention.
Exhibit 03 · Partnership
Partnership Report Preview
Partnership X-Ray

See the patterns influencing your partnership

Partnership Alignment Score, dimension scores, strengths, emerging friction, core insight, alignment and misalignment patterns, and themes worth exploring together.
The Real Value

Knowing Which Questions Matter


Your X-Ray helps bring the most useful questions into focus.
01What patterns may be shaping my decisions or leadership in ways I have not fully recognized?
02How does pressure influence how I operate?
03Which strength may become costly when overused?
04What keeps repeating even after I have tried to address it?
05Where might ownership be returning to me more often than intended?
06Which decisions seem to reopen repeatedly?
07Which conversation would benefit from more clarity?
08What deserves my attention first?
You're not buying more information.
You're gaining clearer visibility into what matters.
On Value

The Value Is Not in How Long It Takes to See It.

A pattern can take years to develop and only minutes to recognize when you know what to look for.
Time invested is not the same as value created.
The patterns with the greatest consequences are often the hardest to identify from inside the situation. The value lies in seeing what deserves your attention, and what does not.
Information tells you what is there.
Precision tells you what matters.
The more consequential the pattern, the more valuable accurate perception becomes.
The Full Experience

Your X-Ray Doesn't End With the Report.

A calm, guided progression from clarity to understanding to your next step.

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See It

Personalized AOC X-Ray Report

You receive a personalized view of patterns, strengths, alignment, and areas of friction or tension, presented as observations to examine, not conclusions imposed on you.
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Make Sense of It

Private 60 Minute Results & Interpretation Session

Geoffrey personally reviews your findings beforehand, then walks through them with you in the context of your real situation, helping you connect what you are seeing to your leadership, decisions, work, or relationships, and clarify what feels most relevant.
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Integrate What Matters

Companion Interpretation & Implementation Guide

You receive a thoughtful resource to help you work with the insights that matter most, through questions, conversations, decisions, experiments, or actions at your own pace and in the way that best fits your situation.
See it. Make sense of it. Decide what deserves your attention next.
Optional, If You Wish

If You Want to Keep Building on What You See

Additional resources are available if you want continued structure for working with what your X-Ray reveals.
• Optional 90-Day Growth Plan
• Practical implementation tools and exercises
• Opportunity at no additional cost to retake the same X-Ray after approximately 90 days
• 90-Day Progress Comparison
These resources are entirely optional. There is no required ongoing commitment. Use them at your own pace, in whatever way is most useful to you.
 Companion Guide & 90-Day Progress Comparison
From Insight to Possibility

See how insight becomes useful

A few illustrations of how each X-Ray can become useful. These are examples, not prescriptions.

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Leadership X-Ray
One Possible Application

If you notice responsibility returning to you more often under pressure

What you might notice
Decisions or tasks drifting back to you, even when others were expected to carry them forward.
One way you could explore it
Clarify the owner, the desired outcome, decision authority, a checkpoint, and what happens next. Then observe whether responsibility stays with the team.
What you might observe
Leadership time recovered · repeated follow-up reduced · unnecessary escalation reduced · decisions staying at the right level.
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Alignment X-Ray
One Possible Application

If some decisions seem to reopen more often than they should

What you might notice
Conversations returning to decisions you believed were settled — not because new evidence emerged, but because the decision did not fully hold.
One way you could explore it
Create a shared Decision Revisit Criteria — a light guide for distinguishing new evidence that genuinely warrants reconsideration from uncertainty, discomfort, or normal second thoughts.
What you might observe
Decisions reopened · execution delayed · rework created · team time consumed · whether reconsideration materially improved the outcome.
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Partnership X-Ray
One Possible Application

If you discover that you and a partner use different thresholds for growth, risk, or major decisions

What you might notice
The same underlying conversation surfacing in different forms — a signal that the thresholds themselves have not yet been clearly named.
One way you could explore it
The findings can provide a starting point for clarifying conditions for expansion, acceptable risk, decision rights, and where mutual agreement matters most.
What you might observe
Unresolved decisions · repeatedly revisited conversations · delayed opportunities · leadership time spent on the same issue.
A Calm Observation

Where Might the Impact Be Showing Up?

Patterns do not have to cause failure to create measurable impact. They can require more time, rework, delayed decisions, repeated conversations, leadership attention, or coordination than necessary.
Illustrative Example
If a leader recovered 3 hours of repeated escalation or rework per week, that would represent 156 hours of leadership capacity over a year.
This is an illustration of how impact can be measured, not a promised result.
CREDIBILITY

Lived First. Studied Second. Systematized Third.


The AOC X-Ray brings together real-world operating experience, sustained study of leadership and human behavior, and a framework built from recurring business patterns observed over time.

01 – OPERATOR

  • More than two decades in business and leadership
  • 7x founder
  • 3 successful exits
  • Built companies into national retail distribution, including Disney, Walgreens, CVS, and Whole Foods.
02 – LEADERSHIP & HUMAN BEHAVIOR

  • Harvard Medical School executive education in The Science of Leadership: The Brain, Resilience, and Mindfulness
  • Paul Ekman Group, METT Advanced
  • NCI Behavioral Profiler, Level 1
  • Additional study in NLP and human behavior
03 – FRAMEWORK & APPLICATION

  • Creator of the Alignment Operating Core (AOC) Framework™
  • Leadership and keynote work with audiences of more than 1,000 leaders
  • Executive workshops and institutional advising engagements
  • Developed to make recurring patterns across leadership, decisions, behavior, and outcomes easier to recognize and examine.

The point is not the résumé. It is the perspective brought to the interpretation.

Every AOC X-Ray is personally reviewed before your private results and interpretation session.


THE INVITATION

Choose the X-Ray That Fits What You Want to Understand Right Now


You do not need to examine everything at once. Start with the lens that best matches the situation, question, or dynamic you want to understand more clearly.

Leadership X-Ray · How you lead
Alignment X-Ray · How you operate
Partnership X-Ray · How we operate together
“It clarified that we were not disagreeing about the opportunity. We were using different thresholds for risk.”
Andrew Levine
One X-Ray Diagnostic Experience · $1,250
Choose the lens most relevant to you.
YOUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES

  • Personalized AOC X-Ray Report
  • Personal review of your findings
  • Private 60-Minute Results & Interpretation Session
  • Companion Interpretation & Implementation Guide
  • Optional X-Ray retake at approximately 90 days
  • 90-Day Progress Comparison
  • Optional 90-Day Growth Plan and practical implementation tools

Choose the lens that gives you the most useful starting point for where you are now.

Because Geoffrey personally reviews and interprets every X-Ray, only a limited number are taken each month.

CHOOSE YOUR X-RAY
Select your X-Ray on the next step.
A More Complete View

When More Than One Lens Deserves Attention

In some situations, one X-Ray gives you the clarity you need. In others, it helps to look across how you lead, how you operate, and how you work with a partner so you can understand the relationships between those dynamics more fully.

The AOC Complete X-Ray Suite™

Three lenses. A more complete picture.
Leadership X-Ray™
How you lead
Alignment X-Ray™
How you operate
Partnership X-Ray™
How we operate together
The Complete Suite brings all three perspectives together for clients who want to examine how these areas interact rather than reviewing each one in isolation.

For Teams & Organizations

When the X-Ray Extends Beyond the Individual

AOC X-Ray experiences can also be adapted for groups navigating shared decisions, communication, leadership, or alignment.

Each engagement is shaped around the people involved, the operating context, and what would be most useful to examine together.

Executive & Leadership Teams
Shared patterns across leadership, decisions, communication, and alignment.
Founders & Partner Groups
Roles, trust, growth, risk, and decision dynamics.
Leadership Groups
Individual insight considered within a shared leadership environment.
Strategic Offsites
A focused diagnostic lens for the conversations that matter most.
Speaking Engagements
Extend key insights beyond the room through a tailored diagnostic experience.
Custom Organizational Engagements
Designed around the people, context, and questions most relevant to the organization.

Each engagement is shaped around the people involved, the context, and what would be most useful to understand more clearly.

Fit

Is the AOC X-Ray the Right Lens for You?


THIS MAY BE A STRONG FIT IF YOU

Are already successful, but notice something keeps repeating

Sense that certain situations require more effort, attention, or energy than they should

Want a clearer view of patterns that are difficult to see from inside your own situation

Prefer specificity and context over a generic personality label

Are open to examining what the findings show

Value greater clarity about where your attention is most useful


ANOTHER APPROACH MAY BE MORE USEFUL IF YOU

Primarily want a personality type or trait label

Mainly want confirmation of an interpretation you have already made

Are looking for a report that tells you exactly what to do without interpretation or reflection

Expect a diagnostic by itself to create change

Require guaranteed financial, behavioral, or performance outcomes

Are seeking therapy, diagnosis, or a clinical psychological assessment

FAQ

A Few Questions You May Have

How is the AOC X-Ray different from DISC, Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, or other assessments?

Personality assessments can be useful for describing preferences, tendencies, or traits. The AOC X-Ray is designed for a different purpose.

It examines seven interconnected layers: identity, values, beliefs, habits, behaviors, actions, and outcomes. The purpose is to help you see how those layers relate to the situation you are navigating.

Rather than giving you another label, the X-Ray provides a contextual view of recurring patterns that are useful to understand more clearly.

How personalized is my AOC X-Ray report?

Each report is personalized to your responses and your situation. Every AOC X-Ray is personally reviewed by Geoffrey before your private Results & Interpretation Session, so the findings you receive reflect your specific context rather than a generic output.

What happens during the private 60-minute Results & Interpretation Session?

Geoffrey walks you through the findings in the context of your actual situation.

Together, you explore what feels most relevant, distinguish what matters from what is simply interesting, and consider how the patterns may be showing up in leadership, decisions, performance, or key relationships.

What if I disagree with a finding or it confirms something I already suspected?

Both are welcome and useful. Findings are observations to consider and explore together, not judgments, conclusions, or verdicts about who you are.

If something does not resonate, we look at it openly and examine what is actually true for you. If a finding confirms what you already sensed, that clarity often becomes the most useful starting point for what comes next.

If the responses come from me, how can the X-Ray help me notice something I may not already see?

The X-Ray does not rely on any single answer. It looks at patterns across the seven AOC layers together.

When those layers are viewed side by side and interpreted in context, they can reveal relationships and dynamics that are harder to recognize when looking at any one area on its own.

Which X-Ray should I choose? Can I explore more than one?

You can choose based on where you feel the most friction or curiosity: leadership, personal operating patterns, or a business partnership. Additional X-Rays can be added individually, or all three can be explored through the AOC Complete X-Ray Suite™.

What are the optional 90-day resources, and do I have to use them?

The 90-day resources are included with your experience and are there if you find them useful. They include an optional structured 90-day growth plan, practical implementation tools and exercises, the opportunity to retake the same X-Ray after approximately 90 days, and a then-vs.-now progress comparison.

These resources are optional. There is no required ongoing program and no additional commitment. You can use as much or as little of the follow-through as feels relevant to you.

Can my leadership team, partnership group, or organization participate?

Yes. Custom engagements are available for executive teams, leadership groups, partnerships, organizations, and speaking engagements. Pricing and design depend on the scope of what would be most useful for your group.

Is the AOC X-Ray therapy, diagnosis, or a psychological assessment?

No. The AOC X-Ray is an educational and professional-development diagnostic experience. It is not therapy, a clinical diagnosis, medical care, or a psychological assessment.

It is designed to help you examine patterns, relationships, decisions, and areas of alignment with greater context and perspective.

What happens after I choose my X-Ray?

The process is designed to feel simple and clear. After secure checkout, you select the X-Ray you would like to complete and receive instructions for completing it.

Once your responses are submitted, Geoffrey personally reviews the findings, prepares your personalized report, and your private Results & Interpretation Session follows.


Complimentary Consideration

A Selective Application Pathway

A limited number of complimentary AOC X-Ray experiences are reserved each cycle for leaders, founders, and partners whose situation is a clear fit for this work.
Applications are read individually. Access is selective, and not everyone who applies is accepted.
If this describes where you are, share a bit about your situation and what you want to understand more clearly.