The Leadership Archetypes Diagnostic

Your leadership has a first move.


The question is whether you can see it before pressure starts choosing for you.

Every leader has behaviours that arrive quickly — ways of creating direction, building capability, distributing ownership, generating momentum, creating structure or connecting people and context.

Those instincts are useful. They are also incomplete.

Leadership Archetypes shows where your leadership naturally begins, the range you already bring beyond instinct, and what becomes more or less available when pressure is sustained.

$59 · Around 20 minutes · Personal Leadership Interpretation

The first move

The leadership move that serves you best can also become the move you repeat too easily.

  • Clarity can outrun ownership.
  • Development can delay a decision.
  • Momentum can outpace readiness.
  • Structure can tighten into control.
  • Agency can become distance.
  • Connection can dilute direction.

Strength is not the problem.
Unexamined repetition is.

The diagnostic makes the first move visible so that the next move can become deliberate.

Three measures

Three views of the same leader.

Leadership Archetypes does not collapse preference, demonstrated behaviour and pressure response into one label.

It reads them separately.

Signature

Where leadership begins for you.

Your Signature reveals the leadership functions you are most likely to reach for before deliberate adjustment begins.

This is your behavioural centre of gravity — not a boundary around what you can do.

20 scenario-based choices

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Signature Map from the Personal Leadership Interpretation · illustrative pattern

Range

What you have learned to bring.

Range shows the leadership behaviour you actually enact — including functions that may not come naturally but have become part of how you lead because the work requires them.

This separates preference from practice.

12 questions based on your behaviour across the last eight working weeks

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Enacted Range across six leadership functions · illustrative pattern

Pressure

What becomes easier to repeat.

Pressure shows where behavioural range can narrow, intensify or become less available when demand stays high.

This is about sustained pressure over time — not one difficult day.

6 pressure questions

Ordinary conditions

Six leadership functions remain broadly available to you.

Sustained pressure

Some functions intensify and repeat; others become harder to reach.

Ordinary conditions beside sustained pressure · illustrative pattern


Preference is not identity.
Behaviour is not fixed.
Visibility creates choice.

The six functions

Six leadership functions. Your own pattern of availability.

Your result is not a box you are placed into.

It is a behavioural picture of where leadership tends to begin for you — and the range available beyond that starting point.

An archetype is a behavioural centre of gravity, not a behavioural boundary.

  • NavigatorDirection
  • CultivatorDevelopment
  • EmpowererAgency
  • EnergiserMomentum
  • ArchitectStructure
  • ConnectorExternal alignment

Your Personal Leadership Interpretation

A report that gives you language for the moments that matter.

Your Personal Leadership Interpretation does not tell you who you are.

It shows where leadership tends to begin for you, what you already bring beyond preference, and where pressure can narrow your available range.

The value is not the label. It is the ability to recognise the moment and choose differently.

Your Signature

Where your leadership instinct naturally begins.

The functions you reach for first, placed by behavioural proximity rather than score.

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Your Range

What you already bring beyond preference.

The leadership behaviour you have actually enacted across recent working weeks.

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Under pressure

What intensifies, contracts or becomes less available.

Where sustained demand narrows the range you can reach for.

Your Leadership Interpretation

What the pattern may mean in practice.

How the pattern may shape the way you decide, communicate, coordinate and respond when demand rises.

“My instinct is Navigator here, but what this situation needs from me may be Cultivator.”An example of deliberate behavioural choice, not a prescribed script

What makes this different

You are not a type.
Your behaviour has tendencies.


Leadership Archetypes separates three things that are often collapsed:

Preference

Where you naturally begin.

Practice

What you actually do.

Pressure

What changes when conditions stop being ideal.

That distinction matters because preference is not identity — and behaviour can be chosen.


The aim is not to tell you who you are.
It is to make more of your leadership available to you.

What to expect

Around twenty minutes.
Thirty-eight short screens.

20
Signature screens
12
Range questions
6
Pressure questions
  • Stop and resume at any time.
  • Answer from actual recent behaviour rather than aspiration.
  • Your completed interpretation remains available in your dashboard.

From individual to collective

Your profile belongs to you.
Your pattern can still contribute to the team.

Your Personal Leadership Interpretation remains private.

If you later join a Team Alignment, only the approved team-level evidence needed to build the collective picture is used.

Your individual report is not exposed to the team.

See your leadership pattern

See where your leadership begins.


$59

One-time · Around 20 minutes

Your completed profile stays with you.

  • Leadership Archetypes Diagnostic
  • Signature, Range and Pressure
  • Personal Leadership Interpretation
  • Ongoing access to your completed profile
  • Ability to stop and resume