The science of Dheya mentoring

Documented. Validated. Defendable.

Mentoring earns its premium price only when it earns its premium claims. This page sets out the three instruments behind every Dheya engagement — and the evidence we are willing to publish for each.

Instrument 01 · RAPD

A behavioural assessment, not a personality test.

RAPD measures patterned behaviour across real-life situations — how a person tends to act, decide and respond under varying constraint. Where personality quizzes flatter the reader, RAPD describes them.

  • 1,20,000+
    Indian respondents in the normed sample
  • α ≥ 0.82
    Cronbach reliability on core sub-scales
  • 18 yrs
    Of practitioner use and refinement
  • CPD
    Mentor training accredited via Continuing Professional Development
  • Interest fit

    What sustains attention across years, not weeks.

  • Ability fit

    What the person can durably do well — measured, not declared.

  • Aspiration fit

    Who they want to become — held as evidence, not vanity.

Instrument 02 · TriFit

Where the person meets the world of work.

Each RAPD profile is scored against Dheya's database of 15,524 occupations on three independent dimensions. A career that holds across years is almost always a career that scores well on all three.

Instrument 03 · The 7D mentoring journey

A sequence built across two decades of mentor practice.

  1. D1
    Discover
  2. D2
    Destination
  3. D3
    Direction
  4. D4
    Desire & Drive
  5. D5
    Dream
  6. D6
    Design
  7. D7
    Develop