Think transacting is cold?
You may have low TQ.

Transactional Intelligence™ (TQ) is a structured methodology for navigating the hidden layer beneath every conversation — the human exchanges that produce every outcome. TQ makes those exchanges visible, so you can move through them consciously rather than be ruled by forces you cannot see.

Transacting isn’t cold. Low TQ is.

Professionals from these organizations have trained in TQ

Berkshire Hathaway
Google
KPMG
Southwest Airlines
Cisco
Western Digital
Siemens
Chase
UVA Health

SOUND FAMILIAR?

You agreed. Then resented it.

Everyone nodded. Nothing got done.

You ignored the signs. They quietly quit.

You know what you’re worth. You keep taking less.

The vision is clear to you. You can’t get buy-in.

These aren’t people problems. They’re TQ problems.

What is TQ?

What people call “transactional” — cold, calculated, self-serving — is not the nature of transacting. It is the symptom of its absence.

High TQ is what makes cooperation feel genuine — not managed, not performed. It is not a personality type or a communication style. It is a structured discipline, studied and applied by practitioners across more than twenty countries in the professional exchanges that produce real outcomes.

Low TQ is not a character flaw. It is the predictable result of never having been shown the structure operating beneath every professional outcome. High TQ is teachable. The professionals who pursue it already sense that something is running beneath their transactions that they cannot yet see.

Low TQ
  • Agreements that collapse
  • Promises forgotten
  • Confusion and resentment
  • Stalled momentum
  • Force over clarity
High TQ
  • Execution that holds
  • Commitments that hold
  • Clarity and alignment
  • Genuine cooperation
  • Clarity over force
TQ Diagnostic

Find out where you actually are.

TQ identifies four characteristic ways of moving through the Transaction Cycle™. The Diagnostic locates you within that methodology — not as a final verdict, as a starting point.

  • Your TQ orientation

    Where attention and energy naturally flow in any consequential exchange.

  • Your avoided exchange

    The stage in the Transaction Cycle that your pattern tends to sidestep.

  • The name of your loop

    The specific breakdown pattern your orientation produces under pressure.

  • A first signal

    What the cycle tends to require from you that you are not yet providing.

Take the TQ Diagnostic →

Free · No prerequisites · Five minutes

TQ Navigator

TQ Navigator™ — Where TQ Becomes Practice

The Diagnostic gives you your orientation. Navigator is where that orientation meets your actual transactions.

Two days, in person. You bring a real transaction — something with real stakes, currently in motion.

You work it in real time, with practitioners doing the same. The methodology meets the room. Things that were abstract become navigable.

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Fundamentals of TQ

The Foundational Discipline
for Navigating Transactions.

Navigator introduces TQ in practice. FOT is where you study the full methodology — every step, in sequence, applied to the transactions that matter most.

Explore FOT →
Transactional Intelligence

HIGH TQ

Why It Matters More Than Expertise

The methodology that drives FOT and Navigator, in book form. For practitioners who want TQ on the page before they attend — or alongside.
Book 1 of the TQ Series. By Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson.
Available 4 August 2026.

Get the Book →
HIGH TQ — Why It Matters More Than Expertise, by Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson
Practitioners

Results.

Income
doubled.

“I was able to double my income during my participation in this course.”

Mark Ng · Technology

143%
of goals.

“140% of my health goals, 143% of my financial goals, 25% increase in income.”

Dr. Khush Cooper · CEO · Los Angeles

You’re already transacting.
The question is whether
you’re doing it consciously.