What if the most important part of your leadership is invisible to you?

Underneath your skills, strengths, behaviors, and accomplishments is something more fundamental: you.

There is a way you affect people that is uniquely yours. It shapes your relationships, your leadership, the opportunities that come toward you, what people trust you with, and what becomes possible because you are there.

And much of it is invisible to you.

Not because you haven't looked deeply enough. Some of the most important information about who you are simply isn't available from the inside. You know what it’s like to be you but you don’t know what it’s like to be with you.

You can know your intentions. You can know what you're trying to do. You can know what you value and what you believe about yourself. But you cannot directly experience what it is like to experience you.

That creates an extraordinary blind spot.

We can spend years developing our skills, understanding our strengths, examining our behavior, and working on ourselves while remaining largely unaware of something much more fundamental: the qualities and patterns through which we naturally affect the world around us.

Discover your Leadership Essence™

Discovering your Leadership Essence gives you access to a part of yourself that has been shaping your leadership all along, but has been largely invisible to you.

You gain a deeper and more accurate understanding of who you are, why you have the impact you have, and what is uniquely yours to bring to your leadership, your relationships, and the work that matters most to you.

And as you begin to recognize and trust what has always been there, you can lead with greater intention, bring more of yourself to the moments that matter, and make choices that are more aligned with who you actually are.

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But this blind spot isn't just individual. The blind spot exists within our understanding of ourselves. And because the missing information lives in other people's experience of us, it also exists between us.

Every person in a team or organization is having an experience of the people around them, and carrying information about those people that they may never have heard. What happens when we begin making some of that invisible information visible?

The Essence Experience™ brings this phenomenon into a room.

Through a series of carefully designed experiments, people receive information about themselves that they ordinarily don't have access to: the experience other people have of them. They begin to discover qualities and patterns that may be obvious to others yet almost invisible to themselves, while realizing that they are carrying equally valuable information about the people around them.

It is an experience of seeing ourselves and one another more fully and more accurately, and discovering just how much we don't know about the impact we have simply by being who we are.

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“Most ‘know yourself’ work asks us to look inward. Michael flips that.”

“It was deeply powerful and left me with so many insights and also a newfound curiosity about everyone I encounter.”

-Gianna Gaudini