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A working library for leaders building human-centered, high-performing organizations.
Evidence-based frameworks, the assessment toolkit we trust most, condensed leadership research, and practical guidance for the leaders rising into bigger seats.
Frameworks & Tools
9 resources
The DiSC Profile: unlocking team awareness, communication, and trust
A highly intuitive behavioral assessment mapping four core styles — Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness — that helps teams improve communication and eliminate relational friction.
The Hogan Assessments: the gold standard for executive self-awareness
The premier suite of personality assessments for executive selection and development, mapping day-to-day leadership reputation (HPI), derailment risks under stress (HDS), and core values (MVPI).
The Leadership Circle Profile: the ultimate tool for conscious leadership
The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) is the world's premier 360-degree leadership assessment, mapping a leader's Creative Competencies against their Reactive Tendencies to reveal the inner operating system.
Psychological Safety: the operating system of high-performing teams
Amy Edmondson's 25-year body of research shows psychological safety is the single strongest predictor of team learning, innovation, and performance — confirmed by Google's Project Aristotle.
FIRO-B: the assessment that reveals why teams really collide
Will Schutz's Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation framework maps three universal interpersonal needs — Inclusion, Control, and Affection — and exposes the hidden engine behind team dynamics.
EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360: the gold standard in emotional intelligence measurement
Built on Reuven Bar-On's 35 years of research, EQ-i 2.0 measures 15 distinct emotional and social competencies. The 360 version adds the mirror that changes leaders.
CDP — the Conflict Dynamics Profile: how leaders actually behave under fire
Developed at Eckerd College, the CDP is the only major assessment focused exclusively on workplace conflict behavior — measuring 15 constructive and destructive responses, and what triggers them.
Team Systemic Coaching: coaching the team as a single living system
Peter Hawkins' systemic team coaching framework treats the team as one organism with stakeholders, purpose, and dynamics — not five individuals in a room. It is how senior teams actually transform.
Liberating Structures: 33 microstructures that unleash everyone in the room
Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless's library of 33 facilitation methods replaces the standard meeting toolkit (presentations, open discussion, brainstorming) with structures that actually engage every voice.
Coaching Models
3 resources
GROW: the world's most adopted coaching framework
Sir John Whitmore's GROW model — Goal, Reality, Options, Will — has powered executive coaching conversations for forty years. Its strength is its discipline.
WOOP: the goal-setting science that closes the intention-action gap
Developed by NYU psychologist Gabriele Oettingen across 20+ years of research, WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) is one of the few goal-setting methods with rigorous experimental evidence.
SMART Goals: the classic, used well — and where it falls short
George Doran's 1981 SMART framework — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound — is the most quoted goal-setting tool in business. It works beautifully for execution, but quietly fails for transformation.
Leadership Research
3 resources
Transformational vs. transactional leadership — what 40 years of research shows
Bernard Bass and Bruce Avolio's Full Range Leadership Model has been validated in 200+ studies across cultures. The findings are surprisingly consistent.
Humble leadership: the counterintuitive predictor of team performance
Bradley Owens (BYU) and David Hekman's longitudinal research finds humble leaders outperform on team learning, engagement, and retention — and, surprisingly, on perceived effectiveness.
Project Aristotle: what Google learned from studying 180 teams
Google's multi-year, multi-million-dollar study of what makes their teams effective concluded that WHO is on the team matters far less than HOW the team works together.
For Emerging Leaders
3 resources
Do you have it in you? An honest self-assessment for aspiring leaders
The honest questions you have to sit with before you decide whether leadership is the right next chapter — and how to know when it is.
What you actually need to lead — beyond the leadership clichés
Six capabilities the research consistently identifies as the foundation of effective leadership at every level — and why most leadership development misses them.
The path to leadership we recommend — and how we support you
A clear, staged development arc for emerging leaders, drawn from what we've seen actually work across hundreds of executive coaching engagements.
Self-Awareness & EQ
3 resources
Self-awareness: the rarest leadership capability — and the most teachable
Tasha Eurich's research on 5,000 participants found that 95% of people believe they are self-aware. Only 10–15% actually are. The gap is where coaching does its most important work.
Emotional Intelligence: from buzzword to operating discipline
Daniel Goleman's 1995 framework — and the 30 years of research since — show that emotional intelligence accounts for nearly 90% of the difference between average and outstanding leaders at senior levels.
Interpersonal skills: the senior-leader differentiator no résumé captures
The Center for Creative Leadership's research on derailed executives finds that the #1 cause of senior career failure is not strategic or technical — it is the breakdown of relationships with peers, reports, and stakeholders.
For Leaders & Supervisors
2 resources
Accountability without fear: the supervisor's playbook for clean, consistent follow-through
A practical guide for leaders and frontline supervisors on building a culture of accountability that raises performance without eroding trust, psychological safety, or morale.
Crucial Conversations: the framework every supervisor should master
An introduction to Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler's seminal framework for high-stakes, emotional, and opposing-view conversations — and why we consider it foundational for every leader we coach.
MT Alignment Frameworks
2 resources
The MT Alignment Coaching Framework: a proprietary methodology for executive transformation
Our signature six-stage coaching methodology for individual leaders — integrating self-awareness, systems thinking, and behavioral commitment to produce durable change inside complex organizations.
The MT Systemic Team Alignment Framework: coaching the team as a living system
Our proprietary methodology for systemic team coaching — built on Hawkins' five disciplines and integrated with our alignment lens to transform leadership teams from a group of individuals into a high-performing system.
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