Resources for readers of The Leadership Paradox
The book describes the territory. These resources help you locate where you are in it, and what the next crossing requires. Nothing here asks you to decide anything today. It asks you to find out where you are.
New here? This page is written for readers of the book. If you have not read it yet, start with the book.
Read the book
“Something about leading isn’t working, and I can’t name it.”
For you as a leader of a team. If you recognised yourself in the bracing, in the zoo, in the gap between what you are contributing and what is being received, the work does not end with the book. It begins.
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The Stage Awareness Assessment
Which of the 4 stages are you in?
Survival, Decision Bottleneck, The Shift or Steward Leadership. Five minutes, with a written summary you can return to.
If your result names something you cannot act on alone, the result page includes a short guide written for your leader, so you can share it upward without it sounding like a complaint.
Most leaders make the crossing by default: when the body, the team or the business forces it. The map lets you make it by design.Chandell Labbozzetta, The Leadership Paradox
“My managers are capable, and still not stepping up.”
For founders, business owners and anyone leading a large department. Start with the question from Chapter One:
When a good idea surfaces in your organisation, what actually determines whether it gets traction?
Not what is supposed to happen. What actually happens.
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The Architecture Mentalities Assessment
Which of the 8 levels are you operating from?
A detailed report on the eight levels from Chapter One: where you operate from, where you fall back to under pressure, and the gap between the two.
“I am responsible for leadership capability across an organisation.”
For anyone responsible for leadership development. Your managers are capable and still not operating at the level the business needs, so the next step is a diagnosis, not a program. Start by taking the Architecture Mentalities Assessment yourself, then book the Review.
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The Leadership Architecture Review
Four weeks from engagement to readout, across eight to twelve leaders you nominate. Each leader gets a confidential report. You get an aggregated report with three findings, a Leadership Capacity Index baseline, a two-hour executive readout and a costed recommendation with three options - one of which is always to do nothing. No individual is ever named in the executive room. Credited in full against any program commenced within ninety days.
Watch: What is Winning?
Frank Dick, referenced in the book, was the British Athletics Federation’s Director of Coaching from 1979 to 1994, working with Olympic gold medallists including Daley Thompson.
Recommended practitioners
Mentioned in the book or contributors to the work it describes, for readers who want to go further.
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Energy Work / Reiki / KinesiologySharon Tal
The Soul Alchemist
Sharon Tal is a Kinesiologist, Reiki Master, Counsellor and Celebrant with more than 25 years experience helping people release trauma and clear old patterns at the subconscious level.
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She is The Soul Alchemist, a Spiritual Medium, a published author, an empowerment speaker and had her own radio show, Soul Time. Her work spans aura readings, energy clearing for homes and workplaces, sacred ceremonies, and full moon retreats at Uluru and in Hawaii.
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BreathworkShane & Angie Saunders
Online Breathing Academy
Shane & Angie Saunders are the creators of Behavioral Breathwork and founders of the Online Breathing Academy, where breathwork is taught through the lens of behavioural science.
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They teach breathing as a skill for deepening awareness of the needs of the body and mind. Teaching breathing as a skill, not a trend.
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Leadership / LinkedIn PositioningAdam Houlahan
LinkedIn Expert & Author
Adam Houlahan is an international keynote speaker specialising in LinkedIn strategies for entrepreneurs, a Non-Executive Director and the Co-Founder of Prominence Global.
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He is the author of four Amazon best-selling books - Social Media Secret Sauce, The LinkedIn Playbook, Influencer and The Remote Team’s Blueprint.
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Naturopathy & Somatic PracticesPia Kynoch
Wholeness Medicine
Pia Kynoch is a master clinician and educator in integrated whole-person health, with more than 30 years of clinical practice across naturopathy, dermal sciences and somatic arts.
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Her work bridges physiology, psychology and the nervous system, drawing on trauma physiology, functional biochemistry and somatic practice to turn scientific understanding into felt, lived change.
Also from the book
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Hume 2.0
Health tracking: body composition, biological age, HRV and metabolic tracking.
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Training in Australia
For Australian-based training in NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy®, see Life Puzzle.
For practitioners and coaches
Underneath the book is the Sovereign Method: the four stages held at the interior and organisational levels at once. If your clients need a map underneath the tools they already have, start here.
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The Practitioner Preview
A plain description of what the certification gives you that your current training does not.
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Sovereign Method Practitioner Certification
The structured pathway into the work. It covers the four stages, the eight architectures, the Leadership Capacity Index and the six-phase session structure.
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