Seeing how leadership effectiveness and inner patterns are connected
The Leadership Circle Profile™ (LCP) is a comprehensive 360° leadership assessment that makes visible how a leader’s inner assumptions, beliefs, and habits shape their external leadership behavior and impact.
It is one of the most widely researched and validated leadership assessments available today and is used globally in leadership development, coaching, and organizational transformation initiatives.
What makes the Leadership Circle Profile different
Most leadership assessments focus primarily on competencies and behaviors.
The Leadership Circle Profile goes a step further by integrating inner mindset and outer leadership effectiveness in a single, coherent model.
It shows:
- How leaders think
- How they behave
- How those two are connected
This makes the LCP a powerful tool for vertical leadership development — supporting deeper, more sustainable change.
What the Leadership Circle Profile measures
The assessment combines 360° feedback from stakeholders with a structured self-assessment and maps leadership across two key dimensions:
Creative leadership competencies
These reflect effective, adaptive leadership, including:
- Relating and collaboration
- Systems awareness
- Strategic focus
- Authenticity and integrity
- Achieving results
Reactive leadership tendencies
These show habitual patterns that often emerge under pressure, such as:
- Controlling behaviors
- Protecting and avoiding risk
- Complying at the expense of authenticity
The profile visually shows how reactive tendencies can limit creative leadership, and where development will have the greatest impact.
When this assessment is particularly useful
The Leadership Circle Profile is especially valuable when:
- Leaders want insight into why certain patterns repeat under pressure
- There is a desire to grow both effectiveness and personal maturity
- Development needs to go beyond skill-building into mindset and identity
- Leaders operate in complex, relational, or high-stakes environments
- Organizations want a shared leadership language grounded in research
How I work with the Leadership Circle Profile
The Leadership Circle Profile is always used as part of a reflective and developmental process.
My role is to:
- Create a safe space to explore the results without judgment
- Help leaders see patterns rather than fixating on scores
- Connect insights to real leadership challenges
- Support intentional experiments and integration into daily practice
The profile becomes a mirror, supporting awareness, choice, and growth — not a label.
What becomes possible
Used well, the Leadership Circle Profile helps leaders to:
- Increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- Recognize reactive patterns before they take over
- Strengthen authentic, values-based leadership
- Improve relationships, trust, and impact
- Grow leadership capacity in a sustainable way
Typical process
- Initial conversation — clarifying context and intention
- Assessment setup — selecting feedback providers
- Debrief & reflection — making sense of the profile together
- Integration — translating insight into leadership practice
The pace and depth are always adapted to the leader and their context.
Part of a broader development journey
The Leadership Circle Profile can be used:
- As a standalone development intervention, or
- As part of an ongoing leadership coaching engagement
In both cases, the focus remains on
deepening insight and enabling sustainable growth in complexity.
Curious whether this is the right tool?
If you’d like to explore whether the Leadership Circle Profile fits your leadership context or development goals, we can look at that together.