The leadership patterns creating the greatest impact are often the hardest to see from the inside.They live beneath everyday behaviour: in how a leader responds under pressure, how decisions are made, how authority is experienced, what others hesitate to say, and the gap that can emerge between a leader’s intention and their actual impact.
Through rigorous assessment, thoughtful interpretation, and confidential stakeholder inquiry, we help leaders see what is shaping their effectiveness more clearly. The purpose is to turn insight into practical leadership intelligence, so development can be focused, relevant, and impactful.
Making the Invisible, Visible.
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Leadership Circle Profile™ 360
See the relationship between how you lead and how you are experienced.
The Leadership Circle Profile™ brings together feedback from colleagues, direct reports, peers, and senior leaders to create a multidimensional view of leadership impact.
Unlike assessments that focus only on observable competencies, the Profile also illuminates the underlying assumptions, habits, and reactive tendencies influencing how a leader shows up, particularly when the stakes are high. It reveals where a leader’s strengths are creating momentum, where familiar patterns may be limiting their effectiveness, and where greater leadership range is possible.
For senior leaders, the value is not simply in receiving feedback. It is in understanding the deeper story the feedback is telling and identifying the shifts that will make the most meaningful difference to trust, influence, performance, and organizational impact.
Each Leadership Circle Profile engagement includes expert interpretation, a confidential debrief, and clearly defined development priorities that can be translated directly into coaching or ongoing leadership development.
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Integrative Enneagram
Understand the pattern beneath the behaviour.
The Integrative Enneagram offers a sophisticated window into the motivations, instincts, and adaptive strategies that shape how people lead.
It helps leaders understand not only what they do, but why certain patterns become so compelling, especially under pressure. It can reveal the beliefs driving decision-making, communication, conflict, ambition, control, avoidance, and the ways a leader instinctively seeks safety or influence.
For individuals, the Enneagram creates greater choice. Leaders become more able to recognize their automatic responses, work with their strengths more intentionally, and expand beyond the patterns that have served them well but may now be constraining their impact.
For teams, it provides a shared language for understanding difference without reducing people to simplistic types. Used thoughtfully, it can deepen trust, illuminate recurring tensions, improve communication, and help team members work more effectively across contrasting leadership and interpersonal styles.
At Lochran Leadership, the Enneagram is never used to put people in boxes. It is used to help people see the box they may already be operating from and discover a wider range of choices.
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Leadership Impact Inquiry™
Our Proprietary Stakeholder Interview Process.In law firms, the highest-cost leadership issues rarely announce themselves clearly. They show up as slower decisions, constant second-guessing, thinning trust, avoidable attrition, partner friction, and a growing gap between what leadership intends and what actually takes place.
The Leadership Impact Inquiry™ is our proprietary, confidential stakeholder process that converts lived experience into precise, usable leadership intelligence. It reveals what people are experiencing, what they are not saying out loud, and what is undermining trust, execution, retention, and momentum around a leader, especially inside partnership cultures where credibility is everything.
Translating perception into leadership intelligence.Firms have performance data. What they often lack is accurate, actionable signals about leadership impact in a culture where people are discerning, conflict-avoidant, and credibility-dependent. The Inquiry surfaces these signals early, before drift becomes damage,
When the cost of guessing is too high.The Inquiry is especially valuable when results look strong on paper, but the leader is not winning hearts and minds, and the firm is absorbing the cost in hesitation, friction, disengagement, or attrition. It is also the right move when a leader is stepping into a highly visible role, inheriting a complex function, or needing to stabilize quickly, and senior leadership needs traction, not just intention.
How to know if this is the right fit?The Leadership Impact Inquiry™ is a strong fit when firm leadership wants a clear, confidential picture of how a leader is landing in the system so development can be targeted, not guesswork, whether the leader is newly appointed, rapidly growing in scope, or already strong but ready to increase influence and impact; it is especially useful in partnership cultures where feedback is naturally filtered, allowing patterns to surface early and giving leaders a clean path to build trust and traction.
See what becomes possible with greater clarity.
Whether you are considering a 360 assessment, the Integrative Enneagram, or a confidential stakeholder interview process, we can help you determine which approach will offer the most meaningful insight for the leader, team, or moment at hand.