The most discerning executives understand that transformative leadership development requires more than good intentions—it demands genuine readiness. This strategic assessment examines your psychological preparedness for the vulnerability, self-reflection, and sustained commitment that real growth requires. From evaluating your willingness to confront uncomfortable truths to assessing your capacity for long-term development, this experience helps determine whether you're positioned to extract maximum value from executive coaching. After all, your readiness directly impacts your return on investment, and the best leaders know when they're truly prepared to evolve.
Welcome to Cardinal Point Leadership. Before we dive into the 6-month transformation ahead, we pause here—at the threshold—to orient you, ground you, and prepare you for the journey you're about to take. This isn't performance coaching. This is personal. This is psychological. And it will reach into the spaces where real leadership happens.
Before we proceed, we must evaluate your preparedness for the depth of work ahead:
Your honest assessment of these questions will determine your coaching trajectory.
Listen to this strategic evaluation below to understand what true readiness looks like and prepare your mindset for authentic leadership development. This isn't a performance tune-up. It's a leadership excavation that will challenge everything you think you know about yourself.
Bring your honest answers into our first coaching session. Superficial responses yield superficial results.
If you've completed the reflection above, listened to the readiness assessment, and determined you're prepared for the psychological demands ahead, you're ready to step into Month 1: Leading From Within. This is where authentic transformation begins—not with techniques or frameworks, but with the courage to see yourself clearly and the commitment to evolve beyond your current limitations.
Remember: The quality of your questions determines the depth of your development. Mediocre curiosity yields mediocre leadership.
This first month is all about grounding your leadership in self-awareness, clarity, and authenticity. You'll explore three foundational playbooks designed to crack open the illusions of leadership and uncover the truth behind how others experience you—and how you experience yourself.
The journey begins here. This playbook invites you to peel back the layers and reflect on the formative forces that shaped you. You'll be asked to step back and reconnect with the inner truths that often get lost in the chaos of performance, image, and ego.
Most leaders are managing perceptions. This playbook disrupts that. We explore the dissonance between the leader you believe you are—and the one your team experiences. Through reflective insights and honest reframing, we begin to recalibrate your presence.
In this final stretch of Month One, we turn the mirror around: what makes you followable? What gives you credibility, humanity, magnetism? This playbook blends psychology and presence to help you name and own your unique leadership edge.
In your next coaching session, we'll explore:
This month is about alignment. With yourself. With your truth. With your voice.
See the audio links and playbooks below
This month is your leadership exhale. It’s where you stop gripping what no longer serves your role, your energy, your clarity—or your evolution. After a month of introspection and uncovering your deeper truths, we now loosen the ties to the outdated versions of you.
The goal here isn't reckless change. It's intentional release: choosing what to not carry forward. And in that space, reinvention becomes possible. Not a new mask, but a more honest edge.
“Many leaders don’t need to become more—they need to become less of what they’re not.”
—Chris Poyzer, MSW, Executive Coach
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else." — Yogi Berra
After the deep work of Releasing and a little Reinventing, Month 2 shifts your focus to sustainable renewal.
This isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing what matters with clarity, steadiness, and restored capacity.
Go at your own pace. There are no hard month-to-month rules here—only forward movement that feels authentic and lasting.
1. Recenter & Restore
Reconnect with your core values. Rebuild energy rhythms that actually sustain you.
Get clear on what truly restores your capacity—and what quietly drains it.
2. Spot Your Momentum Markers
Identify the tangible behaviors that show you’re leading differently. These are the evidence that your renewal is working.
3. Examine Your Default Future
Look honestly at where your current path is taking you. Does it match the leader you’re becoming—or is it time for a course correction?
4. Protect Your Gains
Design simple systems that prevent backslide and burnout.
Set boundaries that preserve your renewed capacity for the long term.
When you’re ready to meet with Chris, bring:
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This month is about building the sustainable foundation for every stage of your future growth.
Take the time you need—this is the work that keeps the change alive.
This month we swap worksheets for deep listening. No playbooks, no note-taking sprints—just you, some space to breathe, and three guided audio experiences that reshape how safety, trust, and team performance actually happen.
Reminder: This is an intermission from reading and writing. Let the ideas work on you while you work your week. We’ll turn insights into action together next month...........Audio Links below......
You’ve done the work to uncover blind spots, challenge old habits, and start practicing new leadership behaviors.
Now comes the critical part — keeping those behaviors steady when the pressure rises.
Month 5 focuses on reinforcement — turning your best leadership behaviors into second nature, so they hold up under any conditions.
In this phase, you will:
🎧 The Art of Staying Changed
Your Month 5 core narrative — why reinforcement matters, and how to anchor your leadership identity under pressure.
🎧 The Leadership Blind Spot Conversation
Why leaders struggle to see their own blind spots, why admitting them is psychologically difficult, and how to turn awareness into transformation.
🎧 Your Leadership Anchors: Mastering Reinforcement & Trigger Awareness
A deep dive into fast vs. slow triggers, how to recognize them early, and practical anchors that keep you at your best in high-pressure moments.
If you’d like the full set of Month 5 Playbooks — including the Behavior Mapping Tool, Trigger Recognition Worksheet, and Anchoring Strategy Planner — simply request them directly from Chris or visit his website to access them.
At the halfway point of your year-long leadership journey, it's time to circle back to your DISC profile. Even the most self-aware leaders forget over time what drives them, drains them, and fuels their best performance.
Review your original DISC profile and note where you still align — and where shifts have occurred. Then:
If you don't have a DISC profile yet, this is the time to get one — not just for yourself, but possibly for your team.
Below are example resources — your exact playbook and audio will be matched to your DISC style:
Let's use this mid-year checkpoint to reignite your leadership. Schedule your session with Chris here:
Enjoy your DISC Jounrey Below......
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