The Science Behind Our Approach
Since we are now able to understand personalities and behaviors by separating what you do from who you are, our highest hope is to enrich and shape people’s lives. Gaining insight into a team or individual in ways that go beyond the norm and enables us to offer recommendations that yield beyond the norm impact.
Our Purpose
Linked with personal and customized coaching, we help organizations raise self-awareness about how they make decisions, solve problems, and build relationships using psychological & emotional intelligence assessments.
Our Differentiators
We link both the science and the art of team leadership and policing with emotional intelligence and conflict resolution.
Our Aim
To ensure the best day you have ever had in your role is still ahead of you.
Our Process
- Understand Your performance Development Goals, Challenges & Needs
- Recommend An approach based on your Performance Development Goals, Challenges and Needs, then leverage Psychometric Assessments to better see what’s going on inside that might be causing what is going on outside.
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Implement With assessments and personal/customized coaching to sustain and reinforce The Learning.
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Reinforce Specific Skills, Techniques and Approaches to ensure there is a positive change in behavior. Nothing is fully learned until it is fully applied.
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Business Review It is always good to stick around and see how we are doing when It comes to the Working Relationship, the results we are focused on, and the resulting Impacted Behavior.
Our Strengths
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Integrated and Validated approaches that combine content and assessments for the whole person.
- The Skills, Techniques and Approaches offered are simple, fast and precise.
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We can Measure what a person is like in their most natural persona, at work persona, and overextended/stressed persona. Blind spots cause blind behaviors.
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Our Capabilities allow us to work with teams that are pulling apart and or pulling together.
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Current Texas Police Agencies
29+
Years Of Experience
11+
Current Corporate Clients
CEO
Marcel Brunel
A former US Army Airborne Ranger and Texas A&M Psychology graduate, Marcel Brunel has spent the last 25 years working with organizations as an expert in psychometrics and talent development. While working closely with many government and private organizations, he provides innovative, state-of-the-art assessment tools combined with the most current and complete performance development skills and strategies. Residing in Farmers Branch, Texas, Marcel lives with his wife Susie of 27 years and is the father of Sydney, Jonah, and Adrienne.
Our Journey
“It’s safely exploring the invisible that eventually makes the visible difference.”
2012
A Brief History
Started Brunel Group with the vision of helping others do things they had never done in order to get some things they never had. Making decisions, solving problems, and building relationships are three very important parts of being a leader. Sometimes it is the difference that makes the difference.
2013
Something Big
Thanks to ongoing advancements in brain research and improved algorithms, we can now explore the essence of identity with greater depth. Categorizing and labeling people is obsolete. The ability to gauge a person's inner dialogue, psychological values, and self-perceptions is now achievable.
2020
The Practice Grows
Each year Brunel Group adapts, adjusts, aligns, and grows. Some years we say, “Let’s stop doing this.” Other years we say, “Let’s start doing that!” Some changes came from inspiration, and some were out of desperation. Our biggest takeaway from Covid 19 at Brunel Group was...”Let’s work with smart and fun clients that make you feel lighter when you’re around them.”
2021
Trusting Your Voice
With over 7 years of work in the policing industry, I am now able to share my findings in a more simple, fast, and precise way. Collaborated on a three-page article for the Michigan Police Chief Magazine that was published on 1 February 2021.
Present
Commitment to the Future
Active problems require active answers. Because problems and answers change constantly, we are committed to progress, not perfection. For future growth, we commit to doing the next right thing, right now.
How We Influence Behavior and Impact Results
Chief Mike Parks
Chief Of Police“Marcel, as a chief of police and police professional for over 25 years, your program and enlightenment have helped my team of supervisors and command staff through the darkest days of COVID 19. Without your help, we would not be as emotionally ready to handle the rigor of the task. Thank you, sir. Chief Mike Parks University of Texas.”
Chief Danny Barton
Chief Of Police“Marcel has worked with the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas in the Texas Police Chief Leadership Series program since 2017. He is helping Texas police chiefs measure emotional intelligence and make the link between agency culture and mental health. Both are fragile and must be focused on with intensity and intelligence. He has consistently scored as one of the highest rated instructors by the participants. After a recent class one of the police chiefs said to me “I wish everyone who is actually in policing had as much passion as Marcel does for the profession,” and that truly sums up who Marcel is and what he does.”
Tara Armstrong
General Manager“Marcel Brunel’s energy and passion for helping people achieve their best is infectious. Our focus with Marcel was specifically on officers coaching other officers, agency culture, officer mental health and emotional intelligence. The changes that took place within our officers is noticed often in their daily interactions with the public. I highly recommend Marcel Brunel to any police department or organization who wants to develop better people, not just more productive ones.”
Chief Brian Harvey
Chief Of Police- Allen, TXI met Marcel in 2014 when he conducted executive team development for the City of Allen. His diagnostic tools had much more depth and detail than the “personality inventories” we have all been exposed to in law enforcement. Our officers and civilians are more complex than the four personality traits used by some other organizations, so Marcel’s approach was perfect to help with self-awareness, others-awareness, and conflict resolution.
Emotional intelligence is an important skill for today’s officers and part of overall wellness. We have leveraged his services in our promotional process and most recently in our Departmental management team development. Marcel teaches at LEMIT and currently works with 78 Texas police agencies. He is a dedicated law enforcement partner and an accomplished presenter, consistently evolving his approach to ensure the best day we in police ever have is one that is still out ahead of us.