Leadership Insights: Clarity Starts With Self-Awareness
Understand your strengths, your triggers, and your unique leadership patterns through the Harrison Paradox and Traits & Definitions.
Uncover leadership insights that help you be the best leader you can be
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Why Leadership Insights Matter
Technical skill doesn’t determine success at senior levels — leadership behaviour does. How you respond under pressure, build trust, and influence others shapes performance and culture more than anything else.
Harrison’s behavioural insights reveal the patterns that drive — and limit — your leadership, so you can lead with awareness, clarity, and impact.
Lead with greater consistency and confidence
Understand the Impact your behaviours has on your team
Understand how others experience you
Through deep insight learn to harness and tweak your style
Make decisions without second-guessing
Gain clarity and confidence not only in your decisions, but how you approach them
Create a positive engaged culture
Gain clarity on how to motivate your team and get them moving in the same direction
This isn’t personality fluff. It’s deep insight you can act on.
From Insight to Practical Leadership Shift
We turn behavioural data into real-world growth. No jargon, no box-ticking.
Data on its own doesn’t change behaviour. How you interpret and apply it does. We use Harrison insights in a way that is:
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Respectful – No shaming, no box-ticking
- Direct – Clear language, honest reflection
- Practical – Focused on what you can do differently tomorrow
Harrison Assessment Leadership Insights are used around the world for leadership development and Team synergy by:
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leaders and executives
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Emerging leaders stepping into bigger roles
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Founders and business owners leading growing teams
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HR / People & Culture leaders wanting a robust framework for development
- Leaders looking to understand and maximise team performance
- Boards or ELTs wanting a common language for leadership behaviour
The Paradox of Great Leadership: Strengths in Tension, Excellence in Balance
True leadership isn’t about choosing one side — it’s about mastering the space between.
The Harrison Paradox Report provides leaders with a unique lens for seeing how seemingly opposing traits work together. Providing key Leadership Insights, it reveals where your natural strengths serve you — and where they may begin to work against you under stress.
Through targeted insight, individuals can be very specific about their leadership development, pinpointing the exact steps to take and growing self-awareness for leaders
When viewed through this lens, leadership becomes less about fixing weaknesses and more about balancing the forces that drive impact, trust, and team connection.
Paradox Behaviours At Work
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Frankness & Diplomacy – Saying what needs to be said without shutting people down
Self-Confidence & Open-Mindedness – Backing your judgement while staying genuinely receptive
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Risk-Taking & Caution – Moving decisively without losing perspective
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Enforcing & Warmth – Holding standards while remaining approachable
When these paradoxes are balanced, leaders are trusted, effective, and centred.
When they’re not, we see mixed messages, tension, reactivity, and disengagement.
Paradox doesn’t label you. It helps you understand your impact — especially under pressure.
Traits & Definitions: The Building Blocks of Your Leadership Style
Alongside Paradox, the Traits & Definitions report goes deeper into your behavioural DNA — how you naturally think, decide, and lead under pressure.
It’s where Leadership Insights turn personal. You’ll see:
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Which traits drive your current leadership strengths
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Where helpful habits may now be holding you back
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Patterns that shape how you handle complexity, feedback, and accountability
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Language to articulate your style — invaluable for board conversations, team development, and leadership growth
Together, Paradox + Traits & Definitions offer a 360° understanding of how you show up — not just on your best day, but when the stakes are high.
The insight from behavihelps you lead with precision, awareness, and integrity in every environment — especially when it matters most.
Real-World Results
Harrison Assessments bridge the gap between insight and action. They reveal the connection between behaviour, motivation, and leadership performance, helping organisations make smarter people decisions. See how leading companies apply this data to drive real results.
Curious how these insights could shape your own leadership approach?
Book a Clarity Call for a time that suits you— let’s explore how your Paradox and Traits leadership insights can reveal the shifts that create stronger, more authentic leadership.
Take the Smart Questionnaire
Smart Questionnaire
Complete your 20 min Harrison Assessment
Debrief
90 minute one-to-one session to unpack your results
Targeted Coaching
Focus on key patterns you feel affect your leadership performance, team, or culture
Optional Team Work
Use a shared framework to improve trust, collaboration and performance
What Leaders Often Ask
Leaders are naturally curious about what makes these reports different and how they can use the insights to strengthen their leadership and team effectiveness
Here are some of the most common questions I’m asked about the Harrison Paradox and Traits & Definitions reports — how they differ from traditional leadership assessment and how they can make a real difference in the way you lead, communicate, and make decisions.
Is this a personality test?
Not quite. Harrison Assessments go beyond personality.
While personality tests describe traits, Harrison measures how those traits interact under pressure and in everyday work situations. This gives a richer picture of behaviour and potential — not just who you are, but how you perform.
Who are Harrison Assessments?
Harrison Assessments is a global behavioural analytics company used in over 60 countries. Founded by Dr. Dan Harrison, it combines psychology, data science, and workplace research to help organisations hire, develop, and retain great people.
It’s trusted by companies such as Bridgestone, Deloitte, Siemens, and Coca-Cola to improve performance, engagement, and culture.
What is the Paradox Report and why does it matter?
The Paradox Report measures pairs of complementary traits — for example, being assertive and diplomatic.
Most people lean toward one side, but the most effective leaders balance both.
Understanding these paradoxes gives leaders self-awareness, emotional agility, and the ability to adapt their style and enhance their leadership performance across situations.
What’s the difference between Paradox and Traits & Definitions?
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Paradox Report: Explores how opposing traits work together to drive behaviour, highlighting strengths and imbalances.
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Traits & Definitions: Breaks down individual traits, giving deeper insight into preferences, motivators, and development areas.
Used together, they give a 360° picture of how a person leads, communicates, and collaborates.
Can I use this with my team?
Yes. Many leaders who complete their own profile later choose to use Harrison within their teams.
It creates a shared language around behaviour, builds trust, and helps address performance or communication challenges without blame.
How does Harrison compare to other tools
Tools like StrengthsFinder, DISC, or those offered through OPRA focus mainly on personality or ability — useful, but limited.
Harrison Assessments go further, linking behaviour and preference data directly to leadership performance and engagement. It’s a performance-driven system, trusted by global organisations.
For teams or larger businesses, enterprise options are available through Nudge People — extending these insights across leadership, culture, and the full employee lifecycle.
What can I do with the results once I’ve completed the Harrison reports?
That’s where the real value begins.
Your Harrison reports become a decision-making framework across the employee lifecycle — helping you to:
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Build engagement and wellbeing
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Develop leaders with precision
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Guide career growth
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Support change and culture alignment
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Improve selection and retention
For organisations ready to scale insight, Lesley offers enterprise-level Harrison solutions that integrate data across teams for culture, engagement, and performance strategy.
Where can I get more detail about Harrison Assessments?
To go beyond just leadership insights, visit the Harrison Assessments website.
It’s packed with research and details about the tools and data that power every Harrison assessment — from leadership to career and engagement analytics.
Awareness is the real strength behind great leadership.
When you understand your patterns, you lead with more authenticity, empathy, and strength.
Here’s where that awareness begins.
If you’re ready for a more accurate picture of how you lead — beyond assumptions and annual reviews — we can start with your Harrison Paradox and Traits & Definitions profile, then turn those leadership insights into a clear development path.
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