Press & Media

Available for editorial coverage, interview, and academic inquiry.

Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson — the originator and practitioner architect of the TQ framework — are available for interview on the discipline, its philosophical lineage, and its applications in professional and organizational life.

Who is available.

Kirkland Tibbels — Co-Founder and Chairman

Kirkland is the originator of Transactional Intelligence™ (TQ). His academic formation — a Master's degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, and ongoing doctoral research on the philosophical foundations of transactionalism — gave the methodology its philosophical spine. Available for interview on the discipline's origins, its philosophical lineage, and what it means to formalize a methodology for the invisible layer beneath every professional exchange.

John Patterson — Co-Founder and CEO

John is the practitioner voice of TQ. Before Influential U®, he spent years inside enterprises and high-stakes commercial environments, watching transactions fail at the layer beneath every conversation — the layer expertise alone cannot reach. As CEO, he has brought TQ to practitioners across more than twenty countries. Available for interview on TQ in practice, organizational application, and the professional outcomes the methodology produces.

Available materials.

• Biographical summaries for Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson
• High-resolution photography
• Review copy of HIGH TQ: Why It Matters More Than Expertise (Transactional Intelligence™ — Book 1 of the TQ Series) — available 4 August 2026
• Review copy of Transactionalism: An Historical and Interpretive Study by Trevor J. Phillips