Brilliant Patterns
We find where you’re stuck and map a way through it.
Answer a focused set of questions about your situation. Get a Blueprint (a development plan built from your answers) delivered to your email.
For athletes, people in career transition, anyone working on personal change or self improvement, and organizations navigating team challenges.
A Blueprint built from your answers
You work through a set of reflection questions (between 30 to 60 minutes) on your own time. We find what’s blocking you, map a way through it, and build a 15–25 page Blueprint specific to your situation. Two people with the same goal get different Blueprints because their situations are different.
What’s inside your Blueprint
Built from your answers and accounting for your whole self, you’ll get a development plan
Five strategies for your specific goal & implementation steps
Analysis of your blockers
Goal tracking tools
A section for your coach, therapist, or mentor
Choose your blueprint
Four Blueprints, each built for a different situation
Personal Sports Blueprint
For people navigating something that’s affecting their game or their relationship with sport
Team dynamics, competitive confidence, injury, identity, transition out of sport — or the harder question of who you are in it and beyond it. Built specifically for the athletic context, so you don’t have to explain it from scratch.
Team dynamics · identity · grief · injury · confidence · transition · life after sport
Personal Blueprint
For personal change & self improvement that isn’t career-related
Mental health adjacent, socio-emotional, habits, relationships, creativity, how you’re showing up in your life. Built around what your specific environment supports and what’s actually getting in the way.
Habits · relationships · health · emotional patterns · identity · creative practice
Career Pattern Blueprint
For figuring out what career paths actually fit you
Maps where your skills, experience, and values could take you — including directions you may not have considered. Realistic about timing and built around your actual starting point.
Career change · skills gaps · industry exploration · what’s possible
Career Strategy Blueprint
For getting from where you are to where you want to be
For when you know the direction and need a realistic plan to reach it — steps to take, skills to build, timing to consider, and how to manage what you’re leaving behind.
Transition planning · networking · skill development · timing · career pivots
How it works
Find. Map. Blueprint
01 FIND
Work through the questions
30 to 60 minutes, on your own time. The questions are designed to surface what’s going on — your whole situation.
02 MAP
We analyze your responses
We find what’s blocking you and map a way through it — using your strengths, your environment, and what’s actually possible for your situation. The strategies come from your specific answers, not a profile type.
03 BLUEPRINT
Your Blueprint arrives in your email
A 15–25 page personal development plan, yours to work through on your own or bring into sessions with a coach, therapist, or mentor.
wHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
We start with what’s in the way
Most advice ignores your environment. We look at what your specific situation is supporting or blocking, then building strategies around that picture. Which is why the recommendations tend to feel specific in a way that other advice doesn’t.
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Built from your answers, not a template
Two people with the same goal get different Blueprints. The strategies account for your specific situation and whole self.
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Built from your strengths, not against your limitations
The map we build uses what you already have. The strategies are designed around your existing strengths, not an idealized version of your situation.
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Trauma-informed throughout
The analysis accounts for how psychological safety affects the ability to learn and change.
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Designed to work alongside professional support
Every Blueprint includes a section built for bringing into sessions with a coach, therapist, or mentor. A starting point and a working document.
About
Why I built this
I’m a current athlete who has navigated trying to stay in a sport while managing an environment that had become genuinely difficult, competitive dynamics that made showing up feel costly, a relationship with competition that had shifted from something I loved to something I was just surviving. I was trying to push through it and what I needed was a clear picture of what was happening and strategies that fit my specific situation.
That experience is what eventually became Brilliant Patterns. I have a background in psychology, public health, and learning and development, with specific training in trauma-informed and equity-centered approaches, and I’ve spent years working on the question of what people to learn, know, or do to shift through moments of change. move through it. The Blueprints are built from that work.
They’re not therapy and they’re not coaching. They’re a way to find where you’re stuck, map a way through it, and get a plan that accounts for your constraints, including the ones that are hard to name.
Psychology · Public Health · Learning & Development · Certified Health Educator (CHES) · Continuing education in behavioral health · Trauma-informed and equity-centered design
What people say
Clients Testimonials
“I had never considered some of the career options that it outlined that align with my interests! It has given me a lot of encouragement to know there are potential careers that I feel fulfill my interests with opportunities for growth.”
Career Pattern, Anschutz Medical Campus
“This saves so much time and energy on finding options that work for you personally. More personal than a 1:1 conversation with a career or academic advisor.”
Career Pattern, Anschutz Medical Campus
“Tailored to the individual while also considering challenges and barriers. Usually resources are very general and don’t address individual limitations, challenges, and goals.”
Career Strategy, Anschutz Medical Campus
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