Frameworks & Tools · 7 min read
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.
What it is
The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) is a breakthrough 360-degree assessment that connects a leader's inner operating system (their beliefs and assumptions) to their outer leadership style and behavior. It is the only instrument that measures two primary leadership orientations: Creative Competencies (which drive high performance, vision, and connection) and Reactive Tendencies (which represent self-limiting, defensive habits based on compliance, control, or protection).
By mapping these two dimensions onto a single, visual circular graph, LCP provides instant clarity. It doesn't just evaluate what you do; it exposes why you do it, illustrating how certain habits or fears might be silently undermining your most ambitious strategic efforts.
Why we love it
Unlike traditional 360s that list disparate competencies in endless pages of tables, LCP integrates everything into a single, beautiful visual framework. This holistic design lets leaders immediately see the relationship between their inner patterns and their real-world impact.
We love LCP because it is deeply transformative, not just informative. It shifts the coaching conversation from 'managing symptoms' to 'underlying developmental growth.' It bridges the gap between horizontal skills and vertical maturity, making it the most actionable diagnostic we have ever used for executive leadership development.
How we use it to improve leadership skills
We use LCP at the foundation of our individual and team-coaching programs. The process begins with a highly reflective 360-degree survey gathered from peers, direct reports, and managers, compared against the leader's self-assessment. Together with our certified coaches, leaders unpack their 'profile circle' to identify their primary creative strengths and reactive leverage points.
Armed with these insights, we design a targeted leadership development plan. We use the profile to help leaders consciously move from reactive mindsets (such as micromanaging to maintain control, or avoiding conflict to please others) into creative mindsets (like authentic self-expression, strategic focus, and systemic collaboration). We then re-administer or measure progress to ensure these shifts deliver sustainable business results.
Three takeaways
- 01
LCP is the only 360-degree tool that maps both Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies on a single, integrated visual profile.
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Most leadership challenges are not competence deficits; they are reactive habits (Complying, Protecting, Controlling) hijacking creative talent.
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Developing leadership skills requires shifting your inner operating system from reactive, fear-based patterns to creative, vision-driven behaviors.
Three things to implement this week
- Incorporate the Leadership Circle Profile at the launch of your executive coaching engagements to get a multi-rater baseline of your team's leadership culture.
- Identify the 'Reactive-to-Creative' pivot point on your circle — usually where a high Control or Protecting tendency is dampening collaboration or relationship capability.
- Commit to one daily micro-habit that shifts a reactive behavior into a creative one, such as replacing defensive justification with open perspective-taking.