Break Through Your Leadership Ceiling
Discover your leadership stance patterns and the
growth pathway to break through them.
Many capable leaders notice patterns they can’t seem to break. When pressure rises, do you find yourself:
• Carrying more responsibility than they should?
• Becoming more controlling when situations feel uncertain?
• Avoiding difficult conversations to preserve relationships?
• Overthinking decisions instead of acting?
• Swinging between being overly firm to being over accommodating?
These patterns rarely reflect a lack of capability...
They usually emerge from two leadership stances that shape how you lead.
Your Primary Leadership Stance - how you naturally lead.
Your Secondary (Stress) Stance - how you lead under pressure.
Together they create The Leadership Ceiling Pattern you can't seem to shake.
Discover Your Leadership Stance Profile
Take the 5 Stances of Leadership™ Assessment to reveal:
• Your Primary Leadership Stance
• Your Secondary (Stress) Stance
• The Leadership Ceiling Pattern shaping your leadership
• Your Leadership Growth Pathway to expand beyond it
Takes about 5 minutes to complete
Why Leaders Still Hit Leadership Ceilings
Many leaders don’t realise that the behaviours that made them successful earlier in their career can quietly become the very patterns that later limit their leadership effectiveness.
A leader who built success through decisiveness may begin to rely too heavily on control.
A leader known for strong relationships may begin avoiding necessary tension.
A leader valued for thoughtful judgement may start overthinking decisions under pressure.
Over time these patterns can narrow a leader’s range and create a repeating leadership cycle.
Not because the leader lacks capability.
But because the stance patterns shaping their leadership remain largely invisible.
The 5 Stances of Leadership™ Model
The 5 Stances of Leadership™ framework is based on one of the most critical and overlooked aspects of leadership - A leader's relationship with Power and how they consequently relate to others.
This unique world-first model maps leadership behaviour in the context of 'relational power' across two core dimensions:
• How leaders relate to and assume authority and responsibility
• How leaders influence and engage with others
This creates a clear leadership map showing the distinct Stances leaders tend to adopt in different (or most) situations.
Some Stances emphasise decisive authority and action.
Other Stances emphasise relational influence, systems thinking, or perspective.
Each Stance has strengths, but also limitations when relied upon too heavily or when leaders operate under pressure.
Effective leadership does not come from staying in one Stance and reacting as you always have.
It comes from developing the range to move between stances intentionally, responding to the needs of the situation rather than defaulting to habit.
What The Assessment Reveals
The 5 Stances of Leadership™ Assessment provides a clear view of the patterns shaping your leadership and determining your outcomes. Your results reveal:
Your Primary Leadership Stance - how you naturally position yourself when leading.
Your Secondary (Stress) Stance - how your leadership shifts when pressure rises.
The strengths and limitations created by these patterns.
The Leadership Ceiling Pattern that may be limiting your effectiveness and keeping you stuck.
Your Leadership Growth Pathway for expanding your leadership range.
For many leaders, this is the first time they see the pattern shaping their leadership clearly.
And once the patterns becomes visible, meaningful development becomes possible.
Your Leadership Growth Pathway
Your assessment results provide more than a leadership profile. They include a Leadership Growth and Development Pathway designed to help you expand beyond your current leadership ceiling.
This pathway outlines:
• The next Stance/s to develop with indisputable rationale
• The behavioural shifts that expand your leadership range
• Practical ways to respond to challenging situations based on your Stance
• How to transform your team and organisation based on your Stance changes.
This turns profound insight into practical leadership development.
Instead of simply refining the limited version of yourself that you may have learned to operate from, you begin developing a broader leadership capacity.
The 5 Stances of Leadership™ Model
What Leaders Experience After Seeing Their Patterns
When leaders recognise the Stance patterns shaping their leadership, something important shifts.
Leaders often notice changes such as:
Conscious, confident and effective decision making.
Greater responsiveness and less reactivity in challenging situations.
Teams become more empowered, responsible and activated.
Greater influence without control and force.
Balanced sense of authority and approachability, and much more...
Most importantly, leaders stop experiencing the same leadership problems repeating themselves.
Instead of refining a limited version of themselves, they begin leading with greater range, adaptability, intentionality and thus, impact.
Who We've Served
Take the Leadership Assessment
Reveal the Stance patterns shaping your leadership, and the growth pathway to break through them.
Takes about 5 minutes
Receive your personalised Leadership Stance Profile
Includes your Leadership Growth Pathway
This world-first and unique leadership development model and tool was designed to give you indisputable clarity and robust direction to continue your leadership mastery.
This assessment is currently free, only for a limited time.
The Research and Thinking Behind the Model
The 5 Stances of Leadership Model is grounded in various tried and tested psychological theories and practices such as the following:
Behavioural psychology
Systems thinking and Bowen Relationship Systems Theory
Stress and threat response research
Relational, power and organisational dynamics
Internal Family Systems Theory
Additionally, such theories and research have been inspired by the following: Carl Yung, Myers Briggs, Dr John Demartini, Murray Bowen, Richard Schwartz, founders of DISC and Human Synergistics, and many more.
The result is a framework and learning experience that is:
Highly relatable and easy to understand and apply to leadership development
Practical in real organisational settings
Easy to recognise in day-to-day leadership behaviour
Useful for reflection, coaching, and development
For Leaders Ready to Go Deeper
Many leaders who complete the assessment choose to continue their development through The Integrated Leader™ Program.
This 12-week leadership development journey applies the 5 Stances of Leadership™ model, and other transformational methods in a structured way to help leaders:
Expand their leadership range in a deep and sustainable way - moving from insight to daily embodiment.
Reduce stress-based reactivity and increasing conscious responding.
Developing presence and adaptability that feels like you - sustainable and authentic.
Breaking old cycles and ways of leading - developing new and profoundly effective ways to influence and empower others.
Taking you on a journey that will change both your professional and personal life.
Enrolment into this program is by application only.
The Brains Behind Objective Consulting and The 5 Stances of Leadership™ Model
Meet Brad Semmens
Director & Org' Psych' Expert
Brad Semmens Started Objective Consulting as a result of continuously finding himself with unwavering passion and curiosity towards the intersection of people, performance and business.
Brad walks his talk, as founder of NutriCeuticals - a thriving supplement company selling nation wide, successful consulting company - Objective Consulting and soon to launch - HR SaaS Company - Employield. Brad is a highly skilled business consultant and executive advisor, with deep expertise in personal and organisational psychology, leadership and culture development, strategy, growth and performance improvement.
With qualifications that include a Master of Business Psychology, Bachelor of Business Management – Majoring in Human Resources Management, Certified Change Management Practitioner, and Certified NLP Master Practitioner, L2 E-DISC Consultant and more. Brad combines strategic insight, academic rigour, and extensive real-life experience with a hands-on approach to help business owners, leaders, managers and HR professionals truly thrive.
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