Leadership Circle Profile® · Thorsten Enderlin

You deliver. Your team delivers. So why does it still feel stuck?

Decisions take too long.
Teams execute, but don’t inspire.
Conflict is avoided, not resolved.
Top performers drift, then leave.
The same problems come back every quarter.
Meetings end in agreement, and nothing changes.
Everything lands on your desk.
Honest feedback stops reaching the top.

You know who you are. But do you know how you land?

What holds a capable leader back is rarely a skills gap. It is the Leadership Shadow: unconscious patterns that take over under pressure and that everyone sees except you. The Leadership Circle Profile makes them visible. I am a Certified Practitioner and have debriefed more than 100 leaders with it.

30 minutes · confidential · no pitch

What is the Leadership Circle?

A model of leadership that looks beneath behaviour.

Leadership Circle is an international leadership development organisation founded by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams, the authors of Mastering Leadership. Its central instrument is the Leadership Circle Profile. Most 360° tools stop at behaviour. The LCP also shows the beliefs and assumptions underneath it, the inner operating system that decides how you lead when it matters.

The model in four minutes, by Leadership Circle. The video plays via YouTube once you click.

In conversation with Richard Oakes, CEO of Ohten Group (LinkedIn). We met when we were both accredited in the Leadership Circle. Three minutes on the creative and the reactive side of leadership.

“It’s about them. It’s not about us.”

The Leadership Shadow

Not a skills gap. A pattern you cannot see.

Every leader has a default mode for pressure. It once protected you and helped you succeed. Under a tight deadline, in conflict or in change, it still takes over: you control, you please, or you withdraw.

From the outside, that pattern shows up as slow decisions, quiet teams and good people leaving. From the inside, it simply feels like doing your job. You cannot change a pattern you cannot see.

Creative competencies

↑ The creative answer sits above

Reactive tendencies

A tight deadline. Under pressure, the pull is Controlling.

Hover or tap a field to explore it.

Own illustration. Leadership Circle Profile® is a registered trademark of The Leadership Circle.

What the LCP measures

Two sides of leadership. One honest picture.

Creative competencies

What makes leadership work

The competencies that build trust, focus and results that last.

Reactive tendencies

What holds it back

Strategies that once worked and protected you. Under pressure, they take over.

Both sides, seen by you and by the people around you: your manager, peers and direct reports. The gaps between those views are where the real learning starts.

29leadership dimensions, summarised in 8
360°feedback from your manager, peers, direct reports and others
30 / 15minutes: about 30 for you, about 15 for each rater
2.5m+surveys in the global norm base (Leadership Circle)

Your scores are shown as percentiles against leaders worldwide. Feedback is anonymous by group, and the results belong to you: the profile is built for development, not for performance appraisal.

Reactive patterns are not character flaws. They are strategies that worked once. The question is what they cost you now.

Same situation, two responses

A tight deadline. Which answer does your team hear?

Reactive · Controlling

“Send it to me, I will finish it tonight.”

What tends to happen: the delivery gets out. Questions go quiet, people wait for you, and the next deadline lands on your desk again.

Creative · Achieving

“Here is what matters most. Here is what we drop. What do you need from me?”

What tends to happen: the team decides, you remove blockers, and the standard stays where it is.

Both get the delivery out. Only one leaves a team that can do it again without you.

Five everyday moments. Two ways to answer each one.

In each of these situations, your first sentence is either creative or reactive. Your team feels the difference long before anyone says it out loud.

Thorsten Enderlin, hand on forehead: tight deadline, same team, two responses
A tight deadline
Thorsten Enderlin on a sofa: someone is not delivering
Someone is not delivering
Thorsten Enderlin looking sceptical: two people disagree
Two people disagree
Thorsten Enderlin looking into the distance: a change is coming
A change is coming
Thorsten Enderlin raising a finger: a new idea lands on your desk
A new idea lands on your desk
Work with me

Three ways in. Start where it fits.

For individual leaders

Leadership Clarity Audit

An honest, data-based picture of how your leadership actually lands.

  • Leadership Circle Profile, self-assessment or full 360°
  • 90-minute debrief, one-to-one and confidential
  • 60-minute strategy session: three levers for the next 90 days
Talk about the audit
One-to-one · 12 weeks

Clarity & Execution

For senior leaders who want to change how they lead, not just understand it.

  • Starts with the Leadership Circle Profile and a 90-minute debrief
  • 1:1 sessions across 12 weeks, on your real situations
  • WhatsApp support between sessions
Apply via a Clarity Call
For teams and organisations

Leadership Shadow Audit

For HR and L&D: make the patterns of a leadership group visible and work on them together.

  • LCP 360° and a private debrief for each leader
  • Half- or full-day team workshop on aggregated, anonymised patterns
  • 30-minute team follow-up after four to eight weeks
  • For the sponsor: group insights and where development will have the most impact
Discuss your group
How it works

Four steps. From insight to behaviour.

01 · Assessment

Online, in your own time

Self-assessment only, or the full 360° with raters you choose yourself: your manager, peers and direct reports. Four to six weeks from start to debrief.

02 · Debrief

90 minutes, one-to-one

A confidential conversation about what your profile shows: what drives your behaviour, and what limits your potential under pressure. Invisible patterns made visible.

03 · Strategy session

Three levers, 90 days

Two to three weeks later, 60 minutes. We define three concrete levers and one development focus, written down, not merely understood.

04 · Team and beyond

Where it continues

For teams, a workshop on anonymised patterns that builds a shared language for the conversations a team has been avoiding. For you, Clarity & Execution or The Leader as Coach.

Confidential by design. Individual results stay with the leader. They never go to the organisation, in any form, and no individual profile is shown in a team workshop.

“When awareness meets courage, transformation becomes inevitable.”

Next step

You know who you are. Find out how you land.

In 30 minutes we look at where you stand and whether an LCP assessment makes sense for you or your leaders right now. If it does not, I will tell you.

30 minutes · confidential · no pitch

Part of Leadership 2030: clarity, decisions, execution

Leadership Circle Profile® is a registered trademark of The Leadership Circle. Illustrations on this page are my own. The Leadership Circle Profile model video is published by Leadership Circle.

Further reading

The research behind the profile.

Two books by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams, the founders of Leadership Circle. I recommend them to leaders who want to go deeper, before or after their assessment.

Book

Mastering Leadership

Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams

The foundation of the Leadership Circle Profile. Why leaders who act from purpose rather than from fear get better results, and how that shift actually happens.

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Book

Scaling Leadership

Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams

How organisations build leadership capacity on a larger scale, so that better leadership does not depend on a few individuals.

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