A Leadership Diagnostic
Your Work Core
A 15-minute guided experience that maps how you lead, decide, connect, and recover — then synthesizes it into a personal blueprint your team can actually use.
Accredited Program
International Coaching Federation
Approved for Continuing Coach Education credits
What It Is
Not a diagnostic or personality test. A working document.
Most assessments give you a type. The Work Core gives your team a guide. What you need. What shifts under pressure. What brings out your best.
No scores. No labels. Just a behavioral narrative built from your own words, designed to be shared with the people you work alongside.
Inside the Experience
Voice, visuals, and instinct
The Strategy Wall
"Where do you naturally position yourself?" — A visual prompt that captures how you contribute to group strategy: hands-on at the board, capturing independently, or overseeing the full picture.
Choose Your Seat
The Executive Chair, the Bean Bag, the Warm Armchair, or the Bouncy Ball — each represents a distinct way of holding space. Your choice reveals more than you'd expect.
Voice-First Reflection
Most questions invite you to speak before you type. Voice captures nuance that text filters out — the pauses, the self-corrections, the things you say when you stop performing.
- Clear direction
- Open exploration
- High collaboration
- Independent space
- Fast pace
- Thoughtful pace
Work Style Sliders
No right answers — just honest positioning. Where you place yourself on each spectrum shapes how your blueprint describes your ideal working conditions.
The Journey
Eight dimensions. Fifteen minutes.
Each phase builds on the last — moving from instinct to reflection, from how you show up to what you need to sustain.
01
Instinct
How you naturally enter a room, respond to chaos, and orient under pressure.
02
Work Style
The environment, pace, and structure where you do your best thinking.
03
Decision & Communication
How you process information, make calls, and land your message.
04
Stress Shift
What changes when the pressure rises — and what others see before you do.
05
Connection & Safety
What genuine connection looks like for you, and what gets in the way.
06
Growth & Awareness
The feedback that changed you, and where you're still becoming.
07
Boundaries & Wellbeing
What you need to sustain — and what your team should know to support it.
08
Life Context
The commitments, rhythms, and realities that shape how you show up.
What You Get
A blueprint built from your own words
AI synthesizes your responses into a 650–950 word behavioral narrative — written in a systemic tone that describes patterns, not personality. It's a document designed to be shared with teammates, managers, and collaborators.
Each section is bounded and precise. No filler. No flattery. Just a clear account of how you operate — and what others need to know.
Sample Blueprint Structure
01 At a Glance
02 Core Profile Snapshot
03 How [Name] Shows Up
04 Does Their Best Work
05 Makes Decisions
06 Communicates
07 Stress Shift
08 Connects
09 Growth Edge
10 Needs to Sustain
11 How to Work With [Name]
Includes "How to Work With [Name]" — actionable guidance for managers & teammates
In Practice
Designed for teams, not filing cabinets
Onboarding
New team members share their Work Core before their first week. Teammates know how to collaborate before the first meeting.
Team Development
Used within our Relational Leadership Cohort as the foundation for facilitated team reflection and growth.
Ongoing Reference
A living document. As you grow and change, your Work Core can be re-taken and updated to reflect who you're becoming.