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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.
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Five real leadership scenarios. Your instinctive responses. A personalized synthesis that names your pattern — strengths, shadows, and your developmental edge.
"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. You have, in fact, been dealing with a personal issue."
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.
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."
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.
Begin the assessment →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.
"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 — rather than just managing their effects."
— Actual output from the Leadership Pattern Awareness assessment
"I expected a quiz. I got a mirror."
Begin the free assessment →Senior women across sectors.
Technology, healthcare, nonprofit, government — leaders navigating real complexity.
"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."
"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."
"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."
Assessment first.
Coaching when you're ready.
The assessment is yours to keep regardless of what comes next. Most leaders who take it want to talk about what they found.
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 →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 whether coaching is the right next step. A real conversation, not a sales call.
See your pattern.
Then decidewhat to do with it.
Your results belong to you. No one else sees them unless you choose to share them.
Begin the free assessment →Book a free 30-minute intro session with a coach