LEADER MIRROR SURVEY
What is your team really telling you about your leadership?
Most leaders find out long after it matters. The Leader Mirror Survey™ (LMS) gives you an honest read on how the people who report to you experience your leadership every day, plus a 60-minute debrief with a coach to help you decide what to do with what you learn.
Empowerment
Enables the team to make decisions, take ownership, and grow.
Integrity
Acts consistently with values, especially under pressure.
Empathy
Notices and responds constructively to others’ emotions at work.
Candor (Courageous Conversations)
Surfaces and addresses uncomfortable topics promptly and openly.
Self-regulation
Remains effective and grounded in highly stressful situations.
Curiosity
Stays calm, open, and inquisitive when things go wrong, allowing issues to surface rather than remain hidden.
Decisions in uncertainty
Makes effective decisions even when information is incomplete or unclear.
Seven coachable leadership behaviors. Grounded in courage.
Each behavior is observable in real team interactions, captured through team feedback, and developable through coaching. Why these seven skills? Read more in our technical note.
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What the Leader Mirror is, and isn't
The Leader Mirror Survey is an upward feedback instrument focused on seven coachable leadership behaviors. It was built by practicing executive coaches and refined across our coaching engagements.
It is not a psychometric assessment. We don't measure stable personality traits, and we won't tell you who you are. What we do is structure the feedback your team would already give you, if you asked them clearly and gave them a safe way to answer.
If you need validated psychometric data for selection or promotion decisions, tools like Hogan or the Leadership Circle Profile are built for that purpose. The Leader Mirror is built for something different. Surfacing behavioral feedback that informs coaching and personal growth.
How It Works
You order
Fill out a quick intake form with your details and the email addresses of your direct reports (up to 12). Pay securely online or request an invoice. Setup takes about 5 minutes.
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Your team responds
Each of your direct reports receives a personalized link to a focused, behavior-based feedback survey. Responses can stay fully anonymous. If they don't share their name, their feedback can't be traced back to them. In our experience, this produces the most honest, useful responses. The survey takes about 8 minutes.
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You receive your Leader Mirror report
Once the response window closes, you receive a clear, visual report covering:
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Behavior scores across all seven dimensions
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Top strengths as your team sees them
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Your most important growth opportunities
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Patterns and themes from your team's open-text feedback
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The Leader Perception Matrix
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Pre and post-coaching comparison (when applicable)
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You debrief with a CWoB coach
The most valuable part of the Leader Mirror isn't the report. It's the conversation it makes possible. You'll spend 60 minutes one-on-one with a CWoB-certified coach who will walk you through what your team is telling you, help you connect it to your own leadership goals, and explore what comes next. There's no obligation to continue with coaching beyond the debrief.
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HR & People Partners
Use the Leader Mirror to identify which leaders are ready to benefit from coaching, to baseline behavior before an engagement, and to demonstrate measurable change afterwards.
Executive & Team Coaches
A focused, behavior-based feedback instrument you can use to measure coaching impact and surface clear development priorities for your clients.
Leadership Development Programs
A clean before-and-after instrument for leadership development cohorts where measuring behavior change matters.
Why the Leader Mirror Survey?
Most leadership development happens in a closed loop. You take a workshop, you read a book, you reflect on what you've learned, and the only feedback on whether anything actually changed comes from your own perception.
The Leader Mirror breaks the loop. It brings in the people best positioned to tell you whether your leadership is working. The people who experience it every day.
Built by practicing executive coaches. Focused on behaviors that are coachable, observable, and developable. Designed for leaders who want a real picture of their leadership, and a real conversation about what to do with it.
A direct read from the people who experience your leadership every day
Your boss sees you in meetings. Your peers see you in collaboration. But your direct reports experience your leadership in the way that matters most. Every day, in the moments where what you do shapes what they're able to do.
The Leader Mirror Survey asks them, and only them. Their feedback is anonymous, focused on seven coachable behaviors, and gathered in a way that surfaces what's working and what's getting in the way.
You won't get a personality profile or a numerical verdict. You'll get something more useful. A clear, behavior-based picture of how you're landing as a leader, and a real conversation with a coach to help you make sense of it.
