Leadership Circle Profile
The most comprehensive 360° leadership assessment available — revealing not just what you do as a leader, but why you do it.
Most leaders operate with an incomplete picture. The feedback you receive is often filtered through organizational politics, social norms, and the desire to be polite. Your own self-perception — however thoughtful — carries blind spots that years of experience alone cannot correct. The result is a gap between how you intend to lead and how others actually experience your leadership.
The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) closes that gap. It is a research-validated 360° assessment that goes beyond traditional competency measures to reveal the underlying beliefs, assumptions, and habits of thought that drive your leadership behavior. It does not simply tell you what you do as a leader — it illuminates why you do it.
That distinction is what makes the LCP useful in a way most 360s are not. It maps your leadership against a proven framework that integrates both the inner dimension of leadership — your beliefs, motivations, and self-concept — and the outer dimension — how those internal patterns show up in your behavior as experienced by those around you.
The LCP is the only instrument that measures the two primary leadership domains simultaneously. The upper half of the circle maps 18 Creative Competencies that drive effectiveness. The lower half reveals 11 Reactive Tendencies that limit it.
Creative leaders focus on bringing desired results into being. Reactive leaders focus on problem resolution — reacting against stress, anxiety, and inner conflict. Understanding this dynamic is the key to sustained leadership growth.
Leaders who score predominantly in the Creative competencies tend to receive higher leadership-effectiveness ratings — and Anderson and Adams' research links them to stronger business-performance ratings at the organizations they lead. The LCP is a universal-model 360 with construct validity documented by the Institute for Psychological Research and Application (IPRA), and is among the most widely-used leadership 360s in global practitioner use.
Source: Leadership Circle · IPRA construct validity studies · Anderson & Adams, Scaling Leadership (Wiley, 2019)
The Leadership Circle Profile® is the intellectual property of Conscious Leadership, LLC, used by SPARC under license as a Leadership Circle Certified Practitioner.
At SPARC, we are certified Leadership Circle practitioners with deep experience integrating the LCP into executive coaching engagements. We use the LCP not as a standalone report, but as the foundation for a structured engagement — one that builds in three deliberate movements, returning more of the interpretive work to the client by design.
The Leadership Circle Profile is not based on opinion or theory alone. It is the product of decades of empirical research connecting leadership behavior to business outcomes.
The LCP is for leaders who are ready to grow — not because something is broken, but because they want to lead at their highest level.