About Foundation Nova Diem
A new day for how we see people.
Disadvantaged and neurodiverse communities are too often defined by deficits, risk labels and exclusionary thresholds: what's wrong, what's missing, what someone can't do. Foundation Nova Diem exists to change that starting point. We're an Australian charity built to help people, and the professionals supporting them, see strengths and potential first.
How we do it
Lux, our assessment. Lumen, the platform behind it.
Lux is Foundation Nova Diem's strengths-first assessment, built to help people understand their own strengths, patterns and potential, in language suited to reflection rather than judgement. Lumen is the secure platform that runs Lux, connecting consent, governed scoring and the right report for the right person.
Participants receive insight written for them. Where authorised, the clinicians and educators supporting them receive a deeper technical view to use alongside their own professional judgement, never in place of it.
See how Lux worksHonest about where the evidence stands
We claim only what the evidence supports
Lux is descriptive, not diagnostic, predictive or a personnel-selection instrument. It's moving through an active, staged evidence-development programme, and we're careful never to overstate what's currently proven.
Read our evidence standardOur history
From Project NOVI to Lux
Project NOVI is retired historical context; Lux replaced it as the current assessment work.
Read the full Project NOVI transition context, or meet the people behind the Foundation.