Trust Tax™ Research Initiative

How does everything end up back on your plate? There may be a pattern underneath it.

You're the reliable one. The person people call because they know you'll get it done.

Maybe doing a good job keeps earning you more work. Maybe you've handed something off but somehow you're still responsible for making sure it gets done.

Maybe you're responsible for the result but don't have the authority to make it happen. Or maybe you keep stepping in because, “If I don't do it, who will?”

The Trust Tax™ Assessment helps you understand whether there's a responsibility pattern problem, what the pattern is, what story may be helping keep it going, and what that pattern is costing you.

Show Me What's Going On →

About 7 minutes • No name or email required • Immediate personalized results

Burnout doesn't always start with collapse.

Sometimes the warning signs look a lot more ordinary.

Sometimes it looks like snapping at someone over something small and feeling horrible about it afterward.

Sometimes it looks like waking up exhausted even though you slept a decent number of hours.

Sometimes it's staring at something you've done a hundred times and wondering why it suddenly feels so hard.

Sometimes it's losing patience faster, forgetting things, making mistakes you don't normally make, pulling away from people, or realizing you just don't care the way you used to.

And sometimes, eventually, it does look like collapse.

But the pattern can start much earlier.

More work keeps finding its way to you.

You keep stepping in. You keep fixing it. You keep checking. You keep saying yes because you know you can handle it.

And sometimes it feels good to be the person who's needed. You're capable. You're trusted. You're important. You're the person who knows what to do when something goes wrong.

So you keep doing it.

And because you're still getting everything done, the pattern can look a lot like success.

What if you could see the pattern before it becomes the whole story?

In about seven minutes, your personalized results help answer four important questions.

Is there a responsibility pattern problem?

See whether the way responsibility is showing up in your work may be creating unnecessary pressure, frustration, lost capacity or burnout risk.

What is the pattern?

Find out which responsibility patterns are showing up most strongly in your current work experience.

What story may be keeping it going?

Get stories worth listening for, such as “If I don't do it, who will?” or “It's easier if I just take care of it.”

What is the pattern costing you?

See the likely costs associated with your pattern, including where it may be consuming time, energy, focus, opportunity or capacity.

Seven patterns. Do any of these sound familiar?

The research uses formal pattern names. Your experience probably sounds a lot more like this.

Responsibility Accumulation

“Doing a good job just keeps earning me more work.”

Responsibility Attraction

“Everyone comes to me because they know I'll get it done.”

Unresolved Carrying

“I handed it off, but somehow I'm still responsible for making sure it gets done.”

Authority Mismatch

“I'm responsible for the result, but I don't have the authority to make it happen.”

Ownership Confusion

“It's not really my job, but somehow I'm the one taking care of it.”

Values Misalignment

“I can do the job. I'm just not sure I believe in what I'm doing anymore.”

Underutilized Capacity

“I'm working hard, but this job isn't taking me where I want my career to go.”

Your results don't just name the pattern. They help you understand why it matters.

For the patterns showing up in your results, you'll get personalized context designed to help make the experience visible.

What the pattern looks like in your work experience.

What may be helping keep it going instead of assuming the answer is simply “work less.”

Stories worth listening for when you notice yourself slipping back into the same response.

What the pattern may be costing you in time, energy, focus, capacity, opportunity or alignment.

What may be yours to change and what may belong somewhere else.

The answer isn't automatically to work harder.

Your results help you separate what is genuinely yours from what you may have gotten used to taking on.

Because “I can handle it” doesn't have to mean “I have to do it.”

Mine to control The choices, boundaries, conversations and actions that are genuinely yours.

Mine to influence Where your voice, expertise, relationships, questions or advocacy can appropriately shape what happens.

Belongs to others Decisions, responsibilities, actions and outcomes that ultimately belong to someone else or to the system around you.

You're also contributing to a growing body of research.

The Trust Tax™ Research Initiative is studying how responsibility flow, organizational conditions and individual responsibility patterns relate to burnout and sustainable performance.

As the response pool grows, the goal is to share broader findings about how these patterns appear across roles, industries, organizational sizes and work environments.

Your name and email are not required to see where you are today.

You can take the assessment and view your personalized results immediately.

If you'd like a copy to keep or share, you can optionally provide your email and we'll send your personalized results to you.

You'll also have the option to stay connected to future Trust Tax™ research findings and invitations to return and see what has changed.

You know something keeps happening. Find out what it is.

In about seven minutes, find out whether there's a responsibility pattern problem, which pattern is showing up, what story may be helping keep it going, and what it's costing you.

Show Me What's Going On →

About 7 minutes • Immediate personalized results • No email required
Optional: receive a PDF copy of your results to keep or share