Mind My Material for teams. Everyone finds their material. Then the team sees who carries what, where the friction is, and how to get the work done without burning anyone out.
One-page sheet to share with your team or HR (print or save as PDF) →
Free quiz · About 10 minutes · Each person's answers stay on their own device
Many team personality tools end with a type and a chart. Mind My Material asks the questions an engineer would ask about any material on a project: what can it carry, how does it wear, and where does it fit best?
Who flexes, who holds steady, who carries the long loads, and where the mix is thin.
Every material has a job it's built for. The question is fit, not fixing people.
"I'm running hot like a ceramic today" says more in a meeting than a four-letter code.
The free 7-minute quiz, on their own phone. Nothing is uploaded. People choose what to share.
The seven families, what each is built for, and what your team's mix means for the work you actually do.
A one-page team material map and a short list of changes the team agreed on.
On-site or online, sized to your team. Led by Nathan G. Phillips, PE, a presenter and teacher with twenty years in aerospace engineering.
A one-page picture of your team, built only from the results people choose to share: which materials you have, which kinds of load each one handles best, and where the team is likely to wear first.
A carbon-fiber part is two materials doing what neither can alone. The fibers are stiff but brittle by themselves; the resin around them is tough but weak by itself. Together they make a composite stronger than either. Teams work the same way. One person's limits are where another person's strengths fit.
An illustration of the idea, not a rule about which people pair best.
For teams ready to go past the first map. Each person works through the program's worksheets in the 𝑖SIP Companion Workbook: whose plan they're really living, what they were built for, what's weighing on them, and the limits they want to keep. The team leaves with plans that fit the people, not just the org chart.
The Air Force keeps aircraft fleets flying for decades with one discipline: know what each aircraft was built to do, track what's actually loading it, find where cracks will start, and inspect before they grow (the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program, ASIP). Nathan applies the same principles to an organization.
The work your business was designed for, compared with the work it's actually doing.
Where demand, people and process concentrate stress, including the small, steady loads nobody counts.
The weak joints, and a simple schedule for checking them before they turn into failures.
An advisory review, not a stamped engineering report.
A talk on materials, wear and burnout: why things that are strong still break, and what that teaches about people. Sized to your event, with the free quiz as the take-home. Engineers welcome; no engineering needed.
The method underneath is the U.S. Air Force standard for aircraft structural integrity (MIL-STD-1530D), translated onto human performance, with a daily tool (Hindsight 80/20) that does its math on the participant's own device. iSight Laboratories LLC is registered in SAM.gov (CAGE 22H76) and open to pilot studies and research collaborations.