Free Leadership Assessment
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5
scenarios
25
minutes
Free
Your leadership patterns are running the show - in every difficult conversation, every high-stakes decision, every moment that matters. Most leaders never see them clearly. This assessment changes that.
Five real leadership scenarios. Your instinctive responses. A personalized synthesis that names your pattern - strengths, shadows, and your developmental edge.
Sample Scenario
“A trusted colleague tells you that you seem checked out in meetings lately - and it's making them hesitate to bring new ideas to you.”
How It Works
Grounded in real practice, never personality tests.
- Scenario-based · individually tailored
- Harvard adaptive leadership framework
- AI-powered personalized analysis
- Designed for senior leaders
- NYC-based · Global reach
Developed by Dr. Kirsti Samuels, founder of KS Insight and the Women Igniting Leadership Lab - drawing on 25 years of leadership work across five continents, including constitutional processes in Somalia, Sudan, and Iraq.
“Kirsti's experience navigating conflict and complexity in some of the world's most challenging environments gives her a depth of practical wisdom that enriches everything she does.”
Who This Is For
You're good at this. And something's still not working.
Senior leaders - founders, executives, women navigating the upper reaches of organizations - who've hit a ceiling that skill and effort alone won't move.
“I'm the most senior woman in the room and I still don't feel like I fully belong at the table.”
“I'm doing everything right and somehow not getting the recognition or the role.”
“I know what needs to change in my organization. I don't know how to move it.”
“I've made it this far on grit. I need a different kind of edge for what's next.”
What the Assessment Reveals
Your actual leadership pattern. Not a type. Not a score.
Real leadership situations. Your instinctive responses. A synthesis of what that reveals about how you lead when it counts.
01
Your instinctive moves
What you optimize for under pressure - relationship, precision, speed, safety - and how consistently that pattern shows up across different situations.
02
What your pattern accomplishes
The real strengths your instincts create - what they protect, what they signal, and why they've worked as well as they have.
03
What it leaves unaddressed
The shadow of your strength - the systemic issues your pattern consistently misses, and why they keep resurfacing despite your best efforts.
04
Your developmental edge
The specific capability shift that would move you from managing the effects of a problem to changing the underlying dynamic that creates it.
A named pattern. Yours.
Specific, sometimes uncomfortable, always actionable. Not a personality type - a clear-eyed account of how you lead and what it costs.
Sample Pattern Synthesis
“You consistently choose moves that preserve relationships and maintain system stability, demonstrating sophisticated emotional intelligence and perceptiveness about what others need in the moment. Your core strength is creating psychological safety through empathetic response. However, this pattern creates a significant shadow: your drive to maintain relational harmony prevents you from addressing root causes and systemic dysfunction, leaving underlying problems to resurface. The developmental question is whether you can learn to use your exceptional relational awareness to surface and resolve systemic issues, going beyond managing their effects.”
- Actual output from the Leadership Pattern Awareness assessment
The five scenarios cover:
Then What
Your pattern names the gap. This is where you train it.
The assessment tells you your developmental edge. Knowing it changes nothing on its own. Leadership is a set of learnable skills, and these are the three ways we teach them.
Your edge is one situation you keep meeting.
The Intensives
$4,000
six sessions
Six sessions on that single situation, training five named skills. You can read the five before you decide. Most leaders start here.
The Intensives in detailYour pattern is the thing to work on, not one situation.
The Executive Year
$20,000
12 months, by application
A year with a senior executive coach, opening with the Insight 360 Evaluation so the work starts from evidence rather than from your own account of yourself.
The Executive Year in detailYour pattern is being exposed by a live organizational problem.
The Advisory
$24,000
six months
Your advisor works the problem and the capability at the same time. Meets every two weeks.
The Advisory in detailTake the assessment first. It is free, and it is what makes the conversation about which track fits worth having. Compare all three tracks
What Leaders Are Saying
Senior women across sectors.
★★★★★
“The assessment named something I'd known was there but couldn't articulate. My coach used it as the entry point for everything we worked on - it gave us a shared language from the first session.”
VP of Operations · Healthcare sector
★★★★★
“I expected a quiz. I got a mirror. The pattern synthesis was uncomfortably accurate - and that's exactly what made it useful. I shared it with my coach and we started immediately.”
Executive Director · Nonprofit sector
★★★★★
“Seeing my shadow named clearly - not as a flaw but as the cost of a strength - changed how I understood what I actually needed to work on. That reframe was worth the whole engagement.”
Senior Director · Technology sector
The Path From Insight to Change
See your pattern. Then decide what to do with it.
Your results belong to you. No one else sees them unless you choose to share them.
Step 01 · Begin Here
Take the Leadership Pattern Awareness assessment
Five scenarios. Twenty-five minutes. A personalized synthesis that names your pattern - strengths, shadows, and the specific developmental shift that would change how you lead.
Begin the assessment →Step 02 · When You're Ready
Talk to a coach about what your pattern means
Bring your results. In 30 minutes, we'll unpack what your pattern means for the specific challenges you're navigating - and which of the three tracks fits, if any does. A real conversation.
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Book a free 30-minute intro session with a coach
Complete the assessment first. Your results are what make this conversation worth having.
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