The BG5 System identifies four distinct Career or Energy Types. Knowing your type can help you manage your energy more effectively. It can help you move through life with more resilience and grace, regenerating your energy instead of burning you out. Knowing how others in your life can do things differently, it's important for us all to understand how each type functions.

Initiators make up approximately 9% of the population and are quite sensitive beings. They seek the peace to do what they want, when they want to and yet may find themselves being controlled instead. They have an incredible ability to manifest what they envision and are happiest when left to themselves. It confuses them that anyone else even notices or cares what there are doing as they are very independent and self-contained. What they do impacts others, and they may not be aware of this.

Both builder types, whether Express or Classic Builder, exude a magnetic warmth that draws people to them. They don’t need to ‘go out and make things happen’ even though they may have been trained to do that. In fact, this will work against them and cause friction or resistance. Life works best for them when they wait to respond to those people and opportunities they draw to themselves.

Advisors have an intense energy that is focused on other people. They have a difficult time seeing themselves, but they easily see how Builders are spending their energy and are best at leading and guiding them. They can get much more done in less time than Builders and make great managers. There are several leadership traits and strengths in every type’s design so you don’t have to be an Advisor to be a good manager. Advisors with leadership strengths happen to make ideal managers because they’ve learned how to manage energy in an efficient way. They like to master systems and are great at coordinating and organizing people and processes.

Evaluators are a rare type at less than 1% of the population. You have a lot to teach us about how we are progressing as a society, a community, an organization, group, or family when you can be positioned at the heart of the community. When you are given the freedom to move freely through the group observing, sampling and reflecting the truth back to others you and the community thrive. You are here to be accepting of others and teach us how to embrace diversity. You operate from a completely different set of rules than other types and find your wisdom when you realize you aren’t meant to ‘fit in’, but, observe and reflect. What you are reflecting isn’t you but the environment you’re in.