In this whitepaper, we will explain the science of axiology (value science), it's role in the integrated science of neuro-axiology, and what it can mean to your organization.  We are confident that once you have a basic understanding of axiology you will see it, as we do, as one of the most relevant and important break-throughs in the field of personal, leadership and organizational development in the past century if not all of history.

This Changes Everything!

To sustainably change behavior and improve performance, you must change how people think. To change how people think, you must change what they value. Value drives the process. Through axiology we can quickly go below the surface of behavior, personality, attitude, and emotion to identify and measure exactly how an individual's "hierarchy of value" is supporting their current level of success and limiting improvement. Axiology reveals precisely what needs to change in order to produce real, lasting, and significant improvement in any and all areas of life and work. This imformation is crucial to properly employing the principles of neuroplasticity to create the change. Only 6 Advisors integrates axiology, neuroscience, and proprietary educational coaching methodologies to produce measurable changes at this level.

Axiology, as a philosophy, has existed for about 2500 years since the time of Plato and Socrates. It is based on the idea that people’s choices, actions, behaviors, attitude, beliefs and emotions – conscious and sub-conscious – are a function of what they value. That is, how they perceive the value of one thing or idea relative to all else will determine how they interact with the world and even how they view themselves. Part of what makes people unique is that each person has a different personal hierarchy of value  – the order in which things have value to them personally. 

If customer service is an organizational core value, are your employees always valuing the customer first? If not, why not? Are they accurately assessing the relative value between what is good for the customer vs. what is good for the organization? Or, are they more concerned with what’s best for themselves at that moment – like getting lunch?

Axiology Comes of Age

The First Quantum Leap

In the last 50 years, we have seen 3 major quantum leaps in the field of axiology. In the mid-1900s, the first quantum leap occurred when Dr. Robert Hartman made an extraordinary discovery. He discovered that there is a natural, mathematical basis for valuing all things in the universe, tangible and intangible. This includes the chair you’re sitting in, the marketing idea you had last week, your children, changing the oil in your car, empathy, your sense of purpose, and paying taxes – everything. In other words, he discovered that everything in the universe has a precise, objective place along a continuum of value from infinite positive to infinite negative. By extension all things have an objective value relative to everything else. He called it the Hierarchy of Value.

The Hierarchy of Value (HOV) is as important, profound, and irrefutable as Newton’s discovery of the mathematics of laws of gravity – an immutable universal force that acts measurably and predictably on all objects. It is the nature of natural law that we are always under its influence. We can either use it to put a man on the moon, are fall victim to it.

Just as neuroplasticity is considered a paradigm-shifting discovery in the field of neuroscience, the mathematical hierarchy of value - that there is a natural, measurable and objective relative value to every thing in the universe - is ushering in a paradigm shift as potentially impactful as discovering gravity or that the Earth is round. Dr. Hartman, demonstrated that when people are acting in accordance with the HOV, performance and value is always maximized and when they are not in accordance with it, they are likely to not maximize value.

The Second Quantum Leap

The second quantum leap in the field of axiology was that Dr. Hartman developed the Hartman Value Profile assessment. This simple assessment makes it possible to objectively measure an individual’s current, personal HOV with amazing accuracy. This assessment is nothing like the better-known behavioral and personality assessments such as Myers-Briggs and DISC. The Hartman Value Profile (HVP) has been internationally validated through scientific studies for over 50 years.

The Third Quantum Leap

The third quantum leap in the field of axiology is the one made by the founders of 6 Advisors, Inc. Based on Dr. Hartman’s work, what the developers of 6 Advisors were able to establish was a precise and highly practical understanding of how the variances between an individual’s HOV and the mathematical ideal HOV impact how that person thinks, acts, reacts and performs in all any and all areas of life and work. We call it their Value Quotient or VQ. It is akin to the discovering the genome of human motivation. 

Applied Axiology

6 Advisors, by integrating axiology with neuroscience, psychodynamics, and practical, real-world accelerated learning techniques, has created what may be the most advanced, effective and practical process for helping people and organizations reach their greatest potential by maximizing their VQ.

The real and practical results we are able to produce are unprecedented in the field of training and development. Our process is applicable at all level sand across all functions of an organization and for people from every walk of life. 6 Advisors certified coaches and facilitators are impacting the lives and business of executives of major corporations, doctors and other healthcare workers, accountants, drug addicts and first-time offenders, parents, combat veterans, factory workers, volunteers,  personal and business partnerships in crisis... you name it.