Leadership circle
See what’s really driving your leadership team.
See what’s strengthening performance, what’s getting in the way, and where to focus change.
Leadership circle
See what’s really driving your leadership team.
See what’s strengthening performance, what’s getting in the way, and where to focus change.
Activate the future your organisation must win.
+25%
STRATEGIC CLARITY
+26%
FUTURE CONFIDENCE
+37%
TEAM CONNECTION
+19%
DELIVERY READINESS
Measurable shifts in how client organisations perform.
Based on aggregated client pulse data
For leadership teams carrying a future that business as usual cannot deliver
You see the need for change before the organisation is aligned and capable of delivering it.
We work inside your critical strategic challenges to create deeper ownership and stronger execution.
Choosing the future is not the same as being capable of delivering it.
The Leadership Blind Spot
You can feel the friction.
You can’t always see the cause.
Capable, experienced leaders. Yet the team still isn’t performing at the level you know it could.
You can see what leaders do. What is harder to see is why the same patterns keep returning, especially under pressure.
At senior levels, candid feedback gets scarcer. The people who most need a clear mirror on their leadership are often the least likely to get one.
Something needs to shift. The difficulty is seeing what.
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USED WITH LEADERS BY
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS · LEADERSHIP TEAMS
· SENIOR LEADERSHIP GROUPS
the leadership blind spot
You can feel the friction.
You can’t always see the cause.
Capable, experienced leaders. But the team still isn’t performing at the level you know it could.
You have feedback on what leaders do. What is harder to see is why the same patterns keep showing up, particularly under pressure.
And the more senior the team becomes, the harder it can be to get a clear, unfiltered view of the impact leaders are having on one another and the business.
Something needs to shift. The difficulty is seeing what.
the hidden driver
Most 360s show you what leaders do.
Leadership Circle shows you what’s driving it.
Leadership behaviour is only the surface.
Leadership Circle connects what others experience with the beliefs, assumptions and patterns shaping that behaviour, particularly the patterns that show up under pressure.
Some of those patterns may have helped a leader succeed to this point, while becoming the very thing that limits their effectiveness at the next level. Seeing them more clearly gives leaders more choice in how they respond and lead.
why strategy stalls
Under pressure, the past gets louder than the future.
A strategy can be clear and compelling, while the business keeps operating as it always has. Why?
The assumptions, habits and patterns already at work in the organisation keep producing more of what already exists.
The default future is where those patterns are taking you. The declared future is the better future you choose to create. We help your organisation see it, own it and deliver it.
The hidden driver
Most 360s show you what leaders do.
Leadership Circle shows you what’s driving it.
Leadership behaviour is only the surface.
Leadership Circle connects what others experience with the beliefs, assumptions and patterns shaping that behaviour, especially under pressure.
Patterns that helped a leader succeed can become the very patterns that limit them.
Seeing them creates more choice in how they lead.
The profile gives you new insight. The change comes from what you do next.
We connect the Leadership Circle data to the real leadership and business challenges in front of you, then use it to focus where change will make the greatest difference.
01
Focus what matters
Start with the leadership and business challenge that matters most, not the assessment for its own sake.
02
Reveal what's driving it
Use the profile to make the patterns beneath behaviour visible, so leaders can see where their impact is being strengthened or constrained.
03
Activate new ways of leading
Turn that awareness into clear choices, commitments and shifts in behaviour that can be practised in the real work.
What leaders notice
"It provides me with a much broader toolbox. I’m more aware of what I would naturally do, plus more aware of the other options that might be even more effective. That greater flexibility is what I now find helpful."
Johnson & JOhnson
THE SHIFT
From default response to greater choice in the moment.
See it in action.
A clearer way to understand what Leadership Circle reveals.
Watch how the model connects the way leaders think, the way they behave, and the impact they have.
The Leadership Circle Profile
Your leadership, in one view.
Your own responses and feedback from others come together in one clear profile, so you can see where perceptions align, where they differ, and where development could make the greatest difference.
self & others
Where's the gap?
See how you experience your leadership compared with how others experience you.
Top Half
Creative Competencies
The capabilities that enable your effectiveness.
bottom Half
Reactive Tendencies
The patterns that can limit, particularly under pressure.
The profile gives you new insight. The change comes from what you do next.
01
Focus on what matters
Start with the leadership and business challenge that matters most, not the assessment for its own sake.
02
Reveal what's driving it
Use the profile to make the patterns beneath behaviour visible, so leaders can see where their impact is being strengthened or constrained.
03
Activate new ways of leading
Turn that awareness into clear choices, commitments and shifts in behaviour that can be practised in the real work.
What leaders notice
"It provides me with a much broader toolbox. I’m more aware of what I would naturally do, plus more aware of the other options that might be even more effective. That greater flexibility is what I now find helpful."
Johnson & JOhnson
THE SHIFT
From default response to greater choice in the moment.
See it in action.
Watch how Leadership Circle connects the way leaders think, behave and impact others.
The Leadership Circle Profile
Your leadership, in one view.
Your own view and feedback from others come together in one profile, showing where perceptions align, where they differ and where change could make the greatest difference.
self & others
Where's the gap?
See how you experience your leadership compared with how others experience you.
Top Half
Creative Competencies
The capabilities that enable your effectiveness.
bottom Half
Reactive Tendencies
The patterns that can limit, particularly under pressure.
The shift
Until people can see a different future, they default to the one they know.
The default future rarely feels like a choice. It feels like reality: how decisions get made, what teams expect from one another and what people believe is possible.
Because it is familiar, it remains largely invisible.
Once leaders can see the future they are already creating, they can choose a different one.
When leaders stand in a future they are committed to creating, today’s reality looks different.
Old assumptions can be challenged. Choices that once felt unrealistic become necessary. What is missing becomes visible.
We help you turn strategy into something your people own and deliver.
01
Reveal the default future
We help you surface the assumptions, habits and ways of working shaping today’s results, so leaders can see the future they are already creating.
02
Declare the winning future
We help you make the future that must win clear, compelling and shared, so leaders can stand in it together and commit to fully creating it.
03
Activate the strategic shift
We help you turn that declared future into shared ownership, decisive action and new ways of working, so strategy becomes real in everyday delivery.
our role
You know your business.
We help you change what it is capable of.
You bring the ambition, expertise and responsibility for the result.
We help your people surface the assumptions and patterns keeping the organisation tied to the past, then build the commitments and ways of working the future requires.
So your people can own the strategy and deliver it.
where do you start?
Activate
Consequential
Change
From strategy and operating-model shifts to innovation, AI and organisation-wide change.
01.
Activate a leadership team
Build the ownership, trust and collective leadership to deliver together.
Explore leadership activation ➡
02.
Activate a critical transition
Make a new strategy, structure or operating model deliver on its promise.
Explore transition activation ➡
03.
Activate ownership of strategy
Turn strategic ambition into ownership and action across teams.
Explore strategic activation ➡
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Built on evidence
Insight you can trust enough to act on.
4M+ assessments
in the global leadership database
3M+ evaluators
contributing feedback worldwide
Global Norms
your score is benchmarked against leaders worldwide
Independently validated through rigorous third-party psychometric analysis.
where leadership circle can make the difference
For one leader.
For a team.
Or as part of a bigger shift.
Leadership Circle can be used as a focused standalone intervention for one or more leaders, or embedded into wider coaching, team development and organisational change.
For an individual leader
When the stakes are rising, the role is changing, or you want a clearer view of what is helping and limiting your impact.
For a team
When capable leaders need clearer development priorities, grounded in real feedback, to strengthen how they lead individually and collectively.
As part of a bigger shift
When strategy, culture or transformation depends on leaders showing up differently, LCP gives each leader a personal view of what they need to shift.
BUILT ON EVIDENCE
PROVEN AT SCALE
Insight you can trust enough to act on.
4M+
assessments
in the global leadership database
3M+
evaluators
contributing feedback worldwide
Global
Norms
your score is benchmarked against leaders worldwide
Independently validated through rigorous third-party psychometric analysis.
strategic activation in practice
Across sectors and scales, we help leadership teams move strategy out of the plan and into the organisation.
trusted by leaders shaping the future
500+
TEAMS ACTIVATED
800+
LEADERS COACHED
10,000+
PEOPLE IMPACTED
450+
STRATEGIC OFFSITES
No junior hand-off.
No generic playbook
"You helped us achieve in three days what we'd been trying to do for 10 years."
- EMEA Leadership Team
Becks Hoskings
Wayne Alexander
Strategic change needs more than a process. It needs people who can challenge, adapt and help leaders create commitments that hold.
For more than a decade, Wayne Alexander and Rebecca Hoskings have helped leaders across global organisations break through what keeps change stuck and turn strategic ambition into collective action.
where leadership circle can make the difference
For one leader.
For a team.
Or as part of a bigger shift.
Leadership Circle can be used as a focused standalone intervention for one or more leaders, or embedded into wider coaching, team development and organisational change.
01.
For an individual leader
When the stakes are rising, the role is changing, or you want a clearer view of what is helping and limiting your impact.
02.
For a team
When capable leaders need clearer development priorities, grounded in real feedback, to strengthen how they lead individually and collectively.
03.
As part of a bigger shift
When strategy, culture or transformation depends on leaders showing up differently, LCP gives each leader a personal view of what they need to shift.
under the hood
How to read the Leadership Circle Profile
For those who want to go deeper, here’s what the different parts of the profile are actually showing you.
01. Creative + Reactive
The top half of the profile maps Creative Competencies, the capabilities associated with effective leadership. They include how you build relationships, achieve results, lead with authenticity, develop self-awareness and think systemically.
The lower half maps Reactive Tendencies, grouped broadly around Complying, Protecting and Controlling. These are patterns shaped by underlying assumptions about what we need to do to stay safe, succeed or maintain our sense of worth.
Reactive patterns are not simply “bad”. Some may have helped a leader succeed for years. The question is whether they are now limiting choice, effectiveness or growth, particularly when pressure rises. High Creative scores are associated with higher perceived leadership effectiveness.
02. Inner & Outer Circles
The outer circle shows results across 29 specific leadership dimensions. The inner circle brings these together into eight broader dimensions: Relating, Self-Awareness, Authenticity, Systems Awareness, Achieving, Controlling, Protecting and Complying.
The position of each dimension is deliberate. Dimensions beside one another describe related patterns that tend to move together. Dimensions on opposite sides of the circle represent patterns that are inversely related.
That means the profile is more than a collection of individual scores. Its structure helps you see relationships between different aspects of your leadership and the wider pattern they create.
03. Percentiles and Global Norms
LCP results are shown as percentile scores, comparing your results with a global norm group of other leaders.
A score at the 80th percentile, for example, means the score is higher than approximately 80% of the comparison group. Scores above the 66th percentile are generally considered high, while scores below the 33rd percentile are considered low. Scores between those points require more interpretation and context.
Percentiles are not grades. A high score is not automatically “good”, particularly within the Reactive dimensions. Their value is in helping you understand the relative strength of different patterns and what the overall profile may be telling you about your leadership.
04. Summary Dimensions
Four scales around the outside of the profile pull the detail together into broader indicators.
Reactive-Creative Scale shows the balance between Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies. Relationship-Task Balance shows the balance between the Relating and Achieving dimensions.
Leadership Potential Utilisation compares your overall pattern of scores with other leaders who have completed the LCP, providing an indication of how fully leadership potential is being expressed.
Leadership Effectiveness reflects how effective the leader is perceived to be overall.
These measures are most useful when read alongside the full profile, not as standalone scores.
Practical questions
Before you begin.
What leaders and sponsors usually want to know before getting started.
Can I use Leadership Circle for myself, or does my organisation need to sponsor it?
Leadership Circle can be commissioned for a single leader or used with a wider team or organisation. So if you are considering it for yourself, you do not need to wait for a larger programme around you. For organisations, it can equally be sponsored as a focused intervention for one or more leaders.
What does the process involve?
You complete your own assessment and invite colleagues who know your leadership well to provide feedback. Leadership Circle typically recommends around 10–15 evaluators. Once the feedback is complete, you receive your profile and work through it in a structured debrief with a certified practitioner.
How much time does it take?
The self-assessment takes around 20 minutes, and each evaluator usually needs around 15–20 minutes. The system saves progress, so people can leave and return rather than complete everything in one sitting.
Who sees my results?
Your full profile is not automatically shared with your boss, HR or sponsor. If an organisation is sponsoring the work, any agreement about sharing development themes or a development plan should be made in advance. The leader retains control over what specific feedback they share.
Is the feedback anonymous?
Yes, with one important exception. Peer, direct-report and other evaluator feedback is grouped to protect anonymity. Feedback from a boss or boss’s boss can be identifiable because those categories are reported separately.
What happens in the debrief?
The profile gives you new insight. The debrief helps you understand what that insight means in the context of your actual role, relationships and leadership challenges. We identify the patterns that matter most, where they may be helping or limiting your impact, and what different choices become available as a result.
Can the assessment be completed in different languages?
Yes. Leadership Circle currently offers the assessment in 22 languages. ActivateWorldclass debriefs are delivered in English.
A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE for change
See what is missing. Know what to shift.
The Organisational Activation Roadmap is a 40-page practical field guide for leaders trying to turn strategy into lived reality.
Built around the four activations we use with private clients to turn strategy into ownership, momentum and measurable results.
FOR LEADERS & LEADERSHIP TEAMS
See what is missing. Know what to shift.
The Organisational Activation Roadmap is a 40-page practical field guide for leaders trying to turn strategy into lived reality.
Built around the four activations we use with private clients to turn strategy into ownership, momentum and measurable results.
Practical questions
Before you begin.
What leaders and sponsors usually want to know before getting started.
Can I use Leadership Circle for myself, or does my organisation need to sponsor it?
Leadership Circle can be commissioned for a single leader or used with a wider team or organisation. So if you are considering it for yourself, you do not need to wait for a larger programme around you. For organisations, it can equally be sponsored as a focused intervention for one or more leaders.
What does the process involve?
You complete your own assessment and invite colleagues who know your leadership well to provide feedback. Leadership Circle typically recommends around 10–15 evaluators. Once the feedback is complete, you receive your profile and work through it in a structured debrief with a certified practitioner.
How much time does it take?
The self-assessment takes around 20 minutes, and each evaluator usually needs around 15–20 minutes. The system saves progress, so people can leave and return rather than complete everything in one sitting.
Who sees my results?
Your full profile is not automatically shared with your boss, HR or sponsor. If an organisation is sponsoring the work, any agreement about sharing development themes or a development plan should be made in advance. The leader retains control over what specific feedback they share.
Is the feedback anonymous?
Yes, with one important exception. Peer, direct-report and other evaluator feedback is grouped to protect anonymity. Feedback from a boss or boss’s boss can be identifiable because those categories are reported separately.
What happens in the debrief?
The profile gives you new insight. The debrief helps you understand what that insight means in the context of your actual role, relationships and leadership challenges. We identify the patterns that matter most, where they may be helping or limiting your impact, and what different choices become available as a result.
Can the assessment be completed in different languages?
Yes. Leadership Circle currently offers the assessment in 22 languages. ActivateWorldclass debriefs are delivered in English.
Ready to explore it?
Start with what's at stake.
Whether you’re considering Leadership Circle for yourself, a senior leader, a team or as part of wider change, we’ll help you work out whether it’s the right intervention and how to use it well.
A PRACTICAL FIELD GUIDE for change
See what is missing. Know what to shift.
The Organisational Activation Roadmap is a 40-page practical field guide for leaders trying to turn strategy into lived reality.
Built around the four activations we use with private clients to turn strategy into ownership, momentum and measurable results.
Ready to explore it?
Start with what's at stake.
Whether you’re considering Leadership Circle for yourself, a senior leader, a team or as part of wider change, we’ll help you work out whether it’s the right intervention and how to use it well.
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