Cersosimo — Decision Science & Engineering
The Briefing

Pre-Psychological Intelligence.

A 60-minute briefing for managing partners and principal practitioners in financial advisory, medical, and trial law.

The behavioral pre-read for sophisticated client acquisition — the operational outcome of Temporal Predisposition Mapping (TPM), the discipline of reading the person before the room. Rooted in 2,500 years of pattern observation and grounded in modern Big Five personality science, applied to the conversation that decides whether the prospect signs, the patient adheres to the protocol, or the juror returns the verdict you walked in expecting.

The read happens before the meeting does.

What You'll See

The pattern hiding in your client book.

A working overview of Pre-Psychological Intelligence — the discipline of predictive behavior modeling that loads before the conversation begins.

01
Opening · 5 min
The Moon Moves the Ocean

A disarming reframe of why behavioral patterns are physical, not mystical — drawn from the introduction to Elemental Influence. Pre-empts skepticism and sets the operator frame for the next 55 minutes.

02
Origin · 5 min
The Magician, the Salesman, the Pitchman

How Russ's grandfather (a magician), father (founder of Guardian Protection Services), and Billy Mays unintentionally trained the framework into him by age seven. The Bernays-had-Freud parallel — and why education at this depth doesn't come from books.

03
Framework · 10 min
The 2,500-Year Pattern

From Empedocles to Galen to Jung to Marston (DISC) — the same four-type model arrived at independently across millennia. Plus the modern science layer (Big Five seasonal-birth correlations, peer-reviewed temperament research) that makes Temporal Predisposition Mapping defensible. The lineage that makes Pre-Psychological Intelligence credible.

04
Application · 22 min
The Four Elements in Your Client Book

Five and a half minutes per type. The dead-giveaway signals in the first ninety seconds. The discovery conversation each type wants. The fee conversation that converts them. The cost of treating the four types the same.

05
Shortcut · 7 min
The Data Already in Their File

The practical reveal: the read isn't hypothetical. Every piece of data needed to pre-load a behavioral profile already sits in your CRM, your KYC paperwork, and their LinkedIn. Walk through a worked example, the 24-for-24 observation story, and the live decision-tree demonstration showing how the subconscious narrows from random to a specific choice in under half a second.

06
Close · 5 min
Reading Is Half the System

Pre-Psychological Intelligence is the read. The Behavioral Revenue System is what you do with the read. Brief mention of the 6-week cohort for partners who want the full system. Optional Q&A follows.

Sixty minutes of working content, followed by an optional Q&A. No pitch, no sales deck, no upsell sequence in the room. Take the framework, apply it, decide for yourself.
Who It's For

A briefing for the partner who already noticed the gap.

Built for managing partners, lead advisors, and practice heads at RIAs in the $250M–$1B AUM range. The partner who has noticed that the prospects who don’t hire them are often the ones who would have benefited the most — and who suspects there’s a pattern underneath that isn’t random.

Also useful for senior advisors building their book toward partnership, and for COIs (attorneys, CPAs, accountants) who refer to wealth practices and want to read which advisor fits which client before making the intro.

Not a fit for retail planners, solo practitioners selling sub-$500K relationships, or anyone looking for a quick-tactics sales seminar. The briefing trades in operator psychology and 2,500-year pattern observation, not closing scripts.

Who's Briefing You

Russ Cersosimo.

Russ Cersosimo is the founder of Cersosimo & Associates and the originator of Pre-Psychological Intelligence. Two decades applying behavioral science to how businesses sell, retain, and scale — from Fortune-class enterprises (AutoZone, AT&T, GNC, Yahoo, Verizon, UPMC, USDA, U.S. Department of Defense) to founder-led practices and high-trust professional firms.

Author of Molecular Influence (published) and Elemental Influence: The 2,500-Year-Old Cheat Code for Reading Anyone (forthcoming). The two books form The Influence Series — the published IP underneath the discipline introduced in this briefing.

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Register

Reserve a seat for the next briefing.

Capacity is intentionally capped to keep the room operator-grade. Registrations are reviewed for fit before the calendar invite is sent.

Briefing Registration
By introduction or direct inquiry
FAQ

The questions partners ask before they show up.

Is this the science I think it is?

It's Temporal Predisposition Mapping (TPM) — the discipline of how temperament correlates with timing-based inputs such as birth season, generational cohort, and early-environment rhythm. The four-type pattern at its center is what 2,500 years of independent observation keeps arriving at: Greek philosophy, Galenic medicine, Jungian psychology, the modern DISC system. The modern science layer underneath is Big Five personality research and documented seasonal-birth effects. We work at the defensible scientific layer, not at any mystical layer that has historically dressed up the four-type pattern.

Will I get a recording?

Yes. Every registered attendee receives the full recording and the Four-Type Diagnostic worksheet within 48 hours, regardless of attendance. The diagnostic is a one-page reference you can pin near your monitor before your next prospect meeting.

Is there a pitch at the end?

There's a one-sentence mention of the 6-week cohort that builds on the briefing. No deck, no urgency timer, no upsell. If the cohort is right for you, it's right for you; if not, the briefing stands on its own.

What's the difference between this and a Cialdini or Sandler workshop?

Both teach principles. This briefing teaches a discipline — Pre-Psychological Intelligence — that operates before the principles do. You can apply Cialdini's seven principles more effectively when you already know which of the four types you're talking to. Read first. Move second.

Next

If this is the right kind of room for you.

Register above. If the next briefing date hasn’t been set, we’ll notify you the moment it is — and you get priority on capacity.