Leadership Circle Profile: From 360° Insight to Leadership Development

Use the Leadership Circle Profile with EvolunIQ to turn 360° leadership insight into coaching, development priorities and measurable progress.

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A research-backed model of leadership effectiveness.

The Leadership Circle® is a globally recognised leadership development system built on decades of research into what distinguishes effective from ineffective leaders. Its central insight: leadership effectiveness is directly related to the ratio of creative to reactive thinking patterns.

Creative leadership behaviours — purpose, vision, authenticity, systems thinking — correlate strongly with organisational performance. Reactive tendencies — compliance, protection, control — reduce it. The Leadership Circle® suite measures both, giving leaders and their organisations an objective mirror.

KC Malik is a certified Leadership Circle Profile® practitioner. EvolunIQ uses LCP instruments as the diagnostic and measurement backbone of its leadership-development work — as a practitioner and delivery partner, not as the instrument's owner.

The instrument is the starting point. The value is in what happens next.

EvolunIQ pairs the Leadership Circle® instruments with practitioner-guided interpretation, a contextual debrief, and direct integration into coaching — translating the data into concrete development priorities, business application, and follow-up measurement, rather than leaving it as a standalone report.

  1. 01 Contract and clarify objectives
  2. 02 Complete the assessment
  3. 03 Review and interpret the results
  4. 04 Debrief with the leader or team
  5. 05 Define development priorities
  6. 06 Coach and apply
  7. 07 Review progress

Measurement at every level of leadership.

Individual · 360°
LCP 360° — Leadership Circle Profile®

A full 360° leadership assessment that maps an individual leader's creative and reactive tendencies through feedback from peers, direct reports, and managers — producing a visual profile showing where leadership potential is realized, and where it is constrained.

Team · 360°
CLA — Collective Leadership Assessment®

A team-level 360° that assesses the collective leadership culture of a leadership team — identifying the shared creative and reactive tendencies that shape how the group leads, decides, and responds under pressure.

Tracking · Quarterly
Pulse™

A lightweight, targeted assessment that tracks behavioural change between full LCP assessments — keeping a development programme accountable to real, observable progress rather than intention alone.

Team Health · Diagnostic
BRITE™

A team effectiveness diagnostic assessing team health across dimensions including psychological safety, purpose clarity, relational trust, and quality of collaboration — surfacing issues before they affect performance.

Integrated across every phase of a programme.

  1. Phase 01
    Baseline Assessment

    Individual LCP 360° assessments and a Collective Leadership Assessment establish a clear, data-driven picture of where each leader — and the team as a whole — currently stands.

  2. Phase 02
    Development Arc

    Quarterly Pulse assessments track progress against development intentions, keeping coaching conversations evidence-based rather than impressionistic.

  3. Phase 03
    Re-Assessment & Review

    A closing LCP re-assessment allows leaders and sponsors to review the development journey with objective data — what changed, what held, and what to prioritise next.

Assessment findings sharpen the coaching conversation.

Within executive coaching, Leadership Circle findings support focus, self-awareness, behavioural change, leadership impact, role transition, decision-making, and stakeholder effectiveness — giving the coaching relationship an evidence-based starting point rather than an open-ended one.

Embedded in senior leadership programmes, not sold as a standalone test.

Leadership Circle instruments can be embedded into senior leadership programmes, cohort development, transformation initiatives, leadership transitions, and broader organisational-development work — providing the diagnostic backbone rather than a one-off deliverable.

One of two instruments EvolunIQ integrates into development.

Leadership Circle is one of two certified assessment suites EvolunIQ integrates into leadership development, alongside the GC Index®. The Leadership Assessments hub explains how both fit into the broader measure-to-development pathway.

Certified practitioner capability, integrated into real development work.

25+ years
Professional experience
125
People in an international consulting delivery team under overall client-facing responsibility
25+ countries
On-the-ground project delivery
200+
Leaders and professionals advised, coached or developed
50,000+
Employees transferred through integrations and separations advised or led
CPCC Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
ACC Associate Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Leadership Circle® Certified Practitioner LCP360, CLA, BRITE, PULSE
GC Index® Certified Practitioner GC Partner

Integrate the Leadership Circle® suite into your leadership programme.

Request a conversation to discuss how LCP instruments can be embedded into an existing or new leadership-development initiative at your organisation.

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